Word: yorks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. MIKE OCKRENT, 53, British director whose perky retro-musicals, Me and My Girl and Crazy for You, were hits in London and on Broadway; of leukemia; in New York City...
DIED. MADELINE KAHN, 57, devilishly ditsy singer-comedian; of ovarian cancer; in New York City. A diva of light farce, Kahn was Oscar-nominated for best supporting floozy in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). She won a 1993 Tony for Best Actress in The Sisters Rosensweig...
DIED. GENE RAYBURN, 81, unrufflable TV quizmaster who was host of The Match Game for 14 seasons; in Gloucester, Mass. His postwar show with Dee Finch on New York's WNEW helped establish comedy as a staple of morning radio. He was Steve Allen's announcer on the original Tonight Show...
DIED. JOEY ADAMS, 88, borscht-belt wit whose syndicated daily joke column proved comedy is easy ("Myron's wife underwent plastic surgery. He cut up her credit cards"); in New York City...
...myth, set in the Creole society of New Orleans in the 1890s. It stars Audra McDonald, the three-time Tony Award winner who showcased the music of LaChiusa and other art composers on her CD Way Back to Paradise. And it has received an extraordinary buildup from the New York Times, the Only Newspaper That Matters for serious theater, which ran no fewer than three major stories on the show while it was in previews...