Wednesday, October 18, 2023
He wrote several musicals without attracting much notice. Then he struck Broadway gold with “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.â€
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A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.
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He wrote plays that tackled big issues like the death penalty and gun violence. He also wrote for series including the superhero saga “Luke Cage.â€
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As Val, one of the dancers in the hit Broadway musical, she sang a memorable song explaining how she got work by enhancing her body through cosmetic surgery.
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He helped secure landmark status for more than two dozen theaters in the 1980s, then initiated the design competition that led to a new TKTS booth.
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He created sets for more than 50 of Broadway’s most celebrated productions, including “Hair,†“A Chorus Line,†“On the Twentieth Century†and  
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He worked with stand-up comedians to develop shows — one of which is headed for Broadway — that were more than just collections of jokes.
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One of the first Black regulars on a TV variety show, he brought tap to millions of viewers on “The Lawrence Welk Show†after Betty White gave him his first big break.
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After playing a critical Broadway role in “A Chorus Line,†he helped start the vibrant Off Broadway MCC Theater. TV watchers knew him from “The Sopranos†and “L…
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She was nearly 60 when she began producing shows on Broadway. In 19 years, she had a hand (and her money) in 30 plays and musicals.
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As a Black woman, she blazed a path Off Broadway with an intuitive grasp of “how a story should be told, particularly a Black story,†Giancarlo Esposito said.
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The sitcom, about an interfaith marriage, drew criticism from Jewish groups and was canceled after one season. He fared better onstage than in television.
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In a varied career, she had memorable roles in “Damn Yankees†and on “Seinfeld†and was nominated for three Tonys. She later became a director.
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He worked with the directors Mike Nichols, Bob Fosse and Jerry Zaks, winning three Tony Awards and an Oscar for “All That Jazz.â€
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With “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,†she became the first woman to write the book, music and lyrics of a Broadway musical.
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He led a big band, conducted on Broadway, collected Emmys and for nearly 50 years led the orchestra on the annual Tony Awards broadcast.
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He was honored for “Travels With My Aunt,†“Death on the Nile†and “Tess.†He was also renowned for the outlandish outfits he created for Glenn Close as t…
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She was a tough yet empathetic voice professor at Oklahoma City University for 67 years. Two of her students, Kelli O’Hara and Kristin Chenoweth, won Tony Awards.
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He worked with Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, wrote the theme music to many familiar series and accompanied Nichols and May and Bea Arthur on Broadway.
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In his long career, he persuaded Elizabeth Taylor to make her Broadway debut in “The Little Foxes†and produced a memorable flop starring Muhammad Ali.
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He specialized in one-character dramas, portraying luminaries like Emily Dickinson, John Barrymore, Lillian Hellman, Zelda Fitzgerald and Isak Dinesen.
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He turned the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie†into a long-running Broadway musical and wrote the memorable lyrics to a score that included “Tomorrow.â€
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For more than a decade, Mr. Hirson was known for writing for television, but meeting the composer Stephen Schwartz led to the hit musical “Pippin.â€
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Inspired by Jerome Robbins, who cast him in the stage and film versions of “West Side Story,†he went on to create dances for Ann-Margret and others.
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Called “the Susan Sontag of Soviet aesthetic thought,†she wrote about film and theater and helped make a film that drew parallels between Nazism and Stalin.
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She was best known for wildly different roles, in a frat house comedy and in the 1960s drama “Medium Cool.†She was also in films by Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese.
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Mr. Masterson helped turn a magazine article about a bordello into a hit Broadway musical. He later directed the movie “The Trip to Bountiful.â€
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As a founder of the Compass Players in Chicago, he helped create the world of improvisational comedy that is best known in the work of Second City
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Mr. Frankel, a former dress manufacturer, produced more than 50 plays and musicals with various partners and won nine Tony Awards.
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Using unorthodox methods (walk around a room, speak it together), she helped actors find their voices by feeling the weight and rhythms of the words.
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Mr. Donat acted often on the screen and had a recurring role on “The X Files.†But he said he was most gratified by theatrical work.
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