Yale Composer Lopez Wins Broadway Gamble With ‘Book of Mormon’
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When Robert Lopez graduated from Yale College in 1997 with a degree in English, he moved back in with his parents in Greenwich Village and stayed for four years. To finance his musical-theater writing, he worked as a temp at drug maker Pfizer Inc., among other gigs, during what he amiably calls “one big, dumb, idiotic crapshoot.”
Judging by the $980 tickets on eBay Inc.’s online market StubHub for his hit Broadway show, “The Book of Mormon,” the wager paid off handsomely.