Charles Hart
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- This article is about Charles Hart the musician. For the 17th-century actor named Charles Hart, see Charles Hart (17th-century actor).
Charles Hart is a British lyricist, songwriter and musician. He was born in 1962 in London, and attended Robinson College, Cambridge.
He is best-known for co-writing the lyrics to The Phantom of the Opera (1986) with Richard Stilgoe, which has since been produced as a film. A documentary on the DVD for the movie suggests that Hart rewrote the majority of Stilgoe's score
He has received two Ivor Novello Awards and has been nominated twice for a Tony Award.