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  • Broadway Lyricist Adolph Green Dies at 87

    10/24/2002 10:07:26 AM PDT · by GeneD · 6 replies · 267+ views
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Adolph Green, whose six-decade collaboration with Betty Comden helped create such joyous stage celebrations of New York as ``On the Town'' and ``Wonderful Town'' as well as the classic movie musical ``Singin' in the Rain,'' has died. He was 87. Green died at his Manhattan home Wednesday night, his son, Adam, said Thursday. On Broadway, Comden and Green (the billing was always alphabetical) worked most successfully with composers Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne and Cy Coleman. The duo wrote lyrics and often the books for more than a dozen shows, many of them built around such stars...