Weidman was born in New York City and grew up in
Westport, Connecticut, the son of Peggy Wright and librettist and novelist
Jerome Weidman. He received a B.A. from
Harvard University with a major in East Asian history and a J.D. from
Yale Law School. and later opened in the
West End in October 1992 at the Donmar Warehouse. The musical was revived on Broadway in 2004 in a
Roundabout Theater Company production.
Road Show, a musical based on the lives of
Wilson and
Addison Mizner, opened Off-Broadway at the
Public Theatre in 2008. The musical had productions at the Goodman Theatre and Kennedy Center in 2003 prior to the Off-Broadway production. Weidman has worked with choreographer/director
Susan Stroman three times. He wrote the book for the musical
Big, the Musical, with Stroman as choreographer. The musical opened on Broadway in April 1996 at the Shubert Theatre. He and Stroman co-created the Tony Award-winning musical
Contact, which opened Off-Broadway in October 1999 at the Newhouse Theatre at
Lincoln Center and on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in March 2000. He wrote the book for the new musical
Happiness, which ran at Lincoln Center in February 2009. Directed and choreographed by Stroman, the composer was
Scott Frankel with lyrics by
Michael Korie. He has been nominated for the
Tony Award for Best Book for a Musical three times and has been inducted into The
Theater Hall of Fame. ==Other work==