Cy Coleman Biography

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NAME: Cy Coleman
OCCUPATION: Songwriter
BIRTH DATE: c. 1929
DEATH DATE: c. 2004
EDUCATION: What 1978 Broadway play won Cy Coleman a Tony Award for Best Musical Score?
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York

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Cy Coleman was a composer who worked with Broadway songwriters including, Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, Bob Fosse and Neil Simon.

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Cy Coleman was born in 1929 in New York City. He was a composer who collaborated with songwriters Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, Bob Fosse and Neil Simon to produce songs and scores for Broadway musicals, including Wildcat, Sweet Charity, On the Twentieth Century,

and Barnum. In the 1980s he wrote film scores and composed the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Welcome to the Club.

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Composer, born in New York City, New York, USA. In the 1950s he collaborated with such songwriters as Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, Bob Fosse and Neil Simon to produce hit songs and scores for several landmark Broadway musicals, including Wildcat (1960), Sweet Charity (1966), On the Twentieth Century (1978, Tony) and Barnum (1980). In the 1980s he wrote film scores and composed the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Welcome to the Club (1989).