Broadway lyricist Betty Comden dies
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Their 60-year collaboration was such that many believed Betty Comden and Adolph Green, whose musicals won five Tony Awards, were married.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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Beverly Sills, one of the United States&#39; most acclaimed opera singers, died Monday due to lung cancer, US media reported. She was 78.
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Record producer Joel Dorn, who worked with Roberta Flack and Bette Midler, dies aged 65.
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On November fifth, 1942, American showman George M. Cohan died in New York at age 64.
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NEW YORK - Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," has died of a heart attack.    Ebb died Saturday at his home, said David McKeown, an assistant to composer John Kander, Ebb's longtime collaborator...
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Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for 11 musicals including "Chicago" and "Cabaret," died Saturday at his home due to a heart attack.  He also wrote the lyrics for the standard "New York, New York" in 1977, later recorded by Frank Sinatra. E...
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Howard Keel, star of post-war US musicals, and later in the hit TV series Dallas, dies of cancer.
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Fred Ebb, who penned the lyrics for Broadway hits   Cabaret and Chicago, as well as the Big Apple anthem, "New   York, New York," died Saturday in a New York hospital after suffering a   heart attack.
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Playwright Arthur Miller, a titan of  American theater who wrote "Death of a Salesman" and was  revered for works that spoke for the common man, has died. He  was 89.
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The debonair jazz pianist and composer of such legendary Broadway tunes as "Witchcraft," "Big Spender," and "The Best is Yet to Come," died on Thursday night.
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Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical "On the Town," as well as "Singin' in the Rain," considered by many to be the best movie musical ever made, has died. She was 89.
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Playbill - Jerome Chodorov, the playwright whose My Sister Eileen inspired the musical Wonderful Town, died of natural causes Sept. 12 at the age of 93.
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Actress Betty Hutton, the exuberant  blonde who starred as sharpshooter Annie Oakley in the 1950  film musical &quot;Annie Get Your Gun,&quot; has died at age 86, her  former studio, Paramount Pictures, said on Tuesday.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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CHICAGO  - Howard Keel, who sang and  danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of  colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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The author, best known for the childrenâs classic âA Wrinkle in Time,â died Thursday at 88.