Jim Steinman (that composer) wrote a musical called "The Dream Engine" as his senior thesis at Amherst. It leans heavily on the idea of the defilement of youth.

Jim Steinman (that composer) wrote a musical called "The Dream Engine" as his senior thesis at Amherst. It leans heavily on the idea of the defilement of youth. After that he tried to create a rock musical based on Peter Pan. Virtually everything he did after that was a reworking of the ideas from those efforts. It's as if he spent his whole career trying to perfect that one theme of defying mortality.