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Brian Dennehy Dies @ 81

Brian Dennehy Dies @ 81
Veteran stage and screen actor Brian Dennehy died Wednesday, April 15, at his home in Connecticut, his daughter announced on social media: It is with heavy hearts we announce that our father, Brian passed away last night from natural causes, not Covid-related. Larger than life, generous to a fault, a proud and devoted father and…
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‘Gypsy’ Star Faith Dane Dies @ 96

‘Gypsy’ Star Faith Dane Dies @ 96
"You Gotta Get a Gimmick" from the 1959 Broadway hit Gypsy is one of the show-stoppers of all time — and now, 60 passionately lived years later, the show has stopped for that number's MVP, Faith Dane. The colorful performer, who was cast in the show based on her own years parodying burlesque in a nightclub…
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David Schramm, ‘Wings’ Actor, Dies @ 73

David Schramm, ‘Wings’ Actor, Dies @ 73
David Schramm, immediately identifiable as blowhard Roy Biggins of Wings fame, died this weekend in NYC. Schramm (R) in a Wings scene with Tony Shalhoub (b. 1953) (Image via NBC) His publicist confirmed Schramm's death at 73, providing no further details. Born on August 14, 1946, in Louisville, Kentucky, Schramm was an acting wunderkind who…
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Broadway Icon Terrence McNally Dies of COVID-19

Broadway Icon Terrence McNally Dies of COVID-19
Via ExtraTV: Terrence McNally, one of the most acclaimed playwrights and librettists of his generation, died Tuesday at 81, Deadline reports. No truer words (GIF via GIPHY) McNally, who had survived lung cancer, died of COVID-19 complications at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida. The man who would come to be called "the bard of American theater"…
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Ja’Net DuBois’s Family: She Was Cab Calloway’s Daughter

Ja’Net DuBois’s Family: She Was Cab Calloway’s Daughter
Good Times star Ja'Net DuBois, who died last month unexpectedly, was a colorful person with some holes in her personal story — but who would have predicted her death certificate would claim her birth father was big-band legend Cab Calloway? According to her family, DuBois' mother was Lillian Gouedy, as previously known, but her father…
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Disco Sondheim!

Disco Sondheim!
Hey, I loved Disco Evita, so why not Disco Sondheim? Broadway Records is releasing Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Fever Dream digitally on March 20 and in stores in April, and hypes it as a disco reimagining of all of 89-year-old Stephen Sondheim's greatest works. Scott Wasserman and Joshua Hinck dreamed up the idea and…
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Julie Newmar Unveils 86th B’Day Snap

Julie Newmar Unveils 86th B’Day Snap
Lovely Julie Newmar (b. 1933) has many accomplishments under her dancing belt, chief among them her electrifying turn as Stupefyin' Jones in Li'l Abner (1956 Broadway, 1959 film), a 1958 Tony for her performance in The Marriage-Go-Round, early-TV fame as Rhoda the Robot on My Living Doll (1964-1965) and notoriety as Catwoman on Batman (1966-1967).…
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Hal Prince, King of Broadway Musicals, Dies @ 91

Hal Prince, King of Broadway Musicals, Dies @ 91
Hal Prince, the producer and director whose touch molded such hits as The Pajama Game (1954; co-producer); Damn Yankees (1955; co-producer), West Side Story (1957; co-producer), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962; producer); Fiddler on the Roof (1964; producer), Cabaret (1966; producer/director), Company (1970; producer/director), Follies (1971; producer/director); Sweeney Todd…
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Arte Johnson, ‘Verrry Interesting’ Comic Actor, Dies @ 90

Arte Johnson, ‘Verrry Interesting’ Comic Actor, Dies @ 90
Not long after the passing of similarly zany comic Tim Conway, also known for a bag of lunatic personae, Arte Johnson has died at 90. As creepy Renfield, with George Hamilton, in Love at First Bite (Image via AIP) He died after fighting bladder and prostate cancer for three years, his family announced. Born January…
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