Ben Gazzara, Original Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dies at 81
03 Feb 2012
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor of stage and film who created the role of Brick in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died of pancreatic cancer at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York on Feb. 3. He was 81.
Jean Banks, Director of Musical Theatre at BMI, Dies at 77
03 Feb 2012
Jean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, died on Feb. 2 in her Lower East Side home. The cause was lung cancer. She was 77.
Actress Patricia Neway, Tony Award Winner, Dies at 92
30 Jan 2012 --
Patricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for her role as the Mother Abbess in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, died in Vermont on Jan. 24 of natural causes. She was 92.
