Writer of music and lyrics to shows such as La Cage aux Folles won two Tony awards for best musical
The composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as Mame, Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles, has died aged 88.
Herman had a direct and simple sense of melody, and his lyrics had a natural, unforced quality. He said in 1995 that over the years “critics have sort of tossed me off as the popular and not the cerebral writer, and that was fine with me. That was exactly what I aimed at.”
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