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Broadway Composer Charles Strouse Passes Away at 96
Broadway World ^ | 5/15/25 | Chloe Rabinowitz

Posted on 05/15/2025 2:00:56 PM PDT by Borges

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To: Borges

It is interesting how long successful playwrights and theater composers tend to live (Larson in the AIDS era being an exception), suggesting that they live a good life. By contrast, poets famously tend to die young.


21 posted on 05/15/2025 2:39:14 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I feel bad for what happened to JL but Rent did nothing for me.


22 posted on 05/15/2025 2:43:41 PM PDT by Borges
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One good song.


23 posted on 05/15/2025 2:45:48 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Dick Van Dyke
“Put on a Happy Face”, straight from Broadway with full orchestra.
November, 1960
Ed Sullivan Show

https://youtu.be/PdXUNViOj0Y?si=opVaijTkuusQ8O0N


24 posted on 05/15/2025 2:47:12 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Borges
such legendary songs as... “Those Were the Days,” and many others

He was a giant in his field. RIP

Ain't A.I. grand?


25 posted on 05/15/2025 5:58:34 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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