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Richard conceived and directed two of Broadway's most successful musicals: Fosse which won the Tony Award for Best Musical of 1999 and is currently running on Broadway and touring the UK; and Ain't Misbehavin' which won the Tony Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best musical of 1978 and for which he won a Tony Award for Best Director.
He directed and wrote lyrics for the 1977 off-Broadway musical Starting Here, Starting Now with music by David Shire. The RCA original cast album of which was nominated for a Grammy Award. He collaborated with David again in 1983 on the musical Baby (nominated for seven Tony Awards); in 1989 on Closer Than Ever, which won two Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best off-Broadway Musical and Best Score. In 1986, he directed, and with Don Black did the American Adaptation for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance on Broadway, which won a Tony Award for its star, Bernadette Peters. In 1989, he co-wrote the lyrics for Miss Saigon with the composing team of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, whose score was nominated for a Tony Award.
With author/director Arthur Laurents and composer Charles Strouse, he wrote Nick & Nora for the 1991 Broadway season whose score was also nominated for a Tony and in 1996 he collaborated with Mr Shire and with book writer John Weidman on his musical Big, which received a Tony nomination for best score. During his long association with the Manhattan Theatre Club, he directed Livin' Dolls, Hang on to the Good Times, and Urban Blight (with John Tillinger), as well as the original production of Ain't Misbehavin'. Richard also directs The American Songbook series at Lincoln Center.
The son of the well-know orchestra leader, Mr Maltby also contributes devilish crossword puzzles to Harpers Magazine. He is married to Janet Brenner and has five children.
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