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Broadway Legends: Bea Arthur

Tony-winning performer Bea Arthur was born Bernice Frankel on May 13, 1922, in Brooklyn and raised in Cambridge, Md. After graduating from the Linden Hall boarding school in Lititz, Pa., she studied at Blackstone College but soon left to enlist … Continue reading

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In Memoriam: Richard Adler

Composer Richard Adler, co-creator of the classic musicals The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, died last night at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 90 and among the last of Broadway’s Golden Age writers. When I created The Dramatist … Continue reading

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