Newt, you may want to check out some online clips (easily google-able) of the musicals he's done -- most notably EVITA at Regents Open Air . They're hardly "minimalist". But then I'm sure you already know that.
I do. Still recovering from A DOLLS HOUSE and CYRANO. Lloyd did another CYRANO in 2012 for Roundabout, starring Douglas Hodge and Clemence Poesy in Ranjot Bolt's translation - it bore a striking resemblance to the play that Rostand wrote!