New York-The Tony Prize-winning Charles Strauss, a master's degree in Broadway, who composed classic music music such as “Annie”, “Goodbye Wi-Berdy” and “applause”, died on Thursday. It was 96.
Sterene died at his home in New York City, and his family said through the Press Room.
In a profession that spanned more than 50 years, Strouse wrote more than ten music plays in Broadway, as well as films and “Those The Days”, which is a song that is a place for comic series “All in the Family”.
Strouse has turned that these popular songs – attractive – appear as “tomorrow”, the optimistic anthem of “Annie”, and “put on a happy face” from “Bye Bye Birdie”, is his first success in Broadway.
“I work every day,” New York composer told Associated Press during an interview with his eight birthday in 2008.
In the depths of the nineties of the last century, he visited rounds of his performances and met with stadiums. Jane Thompson, who appeared at the first “Annie” Kubbir and reminded the version of a tour in 2024, recalls the upcoming tests to the tests and received the tear when she sang a little girl “tomorrow”.
She recalls, “He was tearing and put his hand on me.” “He bowed to me and said very calmly,” This was you. This was for you to be. ”I thought I would die.
“He is very generous and gentle. He has always been this way.”
It is raised by “Written by Berdy”
His career began in Broadway in 1960 with “Bye Bye Birdie”, which he wrote with Strouse with lyricist Lee Adams and player Michael Stewart.
“Berdy”, starring Dick Van Dyck and Chita Rivera, told the story of a clown similar to Pressley named Konrad Berdy in the army and his influence on one small town of Ohio.
Not only did Strou's music, but also played the piano in the tests while Edward Badola, the new exhibition producer, tried to attract financial supporters for production costing $ 185,000.
“We have never stopped providing tests – people have never provided money at all. The idea of using rock and roll – was stopped,” Strien said.
Finally, Badola found Texas Oilman to. Selid Brown. When he heard the result, he said, in Texas Tang, “I love those songs,” Starus pushed aside and chose a tune “put a happy face” on the piano.
Then Brown said, “How much do you need, Oati?” He wrote a $ 75,000 check to cover the start of rehearsals. “Suddenly, the world turned into tincolor,” Remember Strin.
The popularity of “Birdie” produced a movie (with Van Dyke, Janet Leigh and Ann-Margret) in 1963 and TV air conditioning with Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams in 1995.
Help others shine
Strouse and Adams gave many non -musical theater stars, including Sammy Davis Jr. And lauren bacall, successes on the stage.
For “Golden Boy” (1964), based on Clifford Odets, Strouse and Adams were forced to get Davis' Over for everything. “His agents were not allowed to sign the contract until he agreed to each word and noticed that I wrote to me,” the composer told AP. “What means that, at a great expense of the product, we had to follow Sami all over the world. … We spent three years of our lives, a week or so every month, in Las Vegas, we play songs for him.”
“Applaid” (1970) was adapted from the short Mary ORR story that became Cinema Classic “All About Eve”. He was the first time at the Pakal Music Theater, and the actress Petoni won her performance, as Starus and Adams did for their degrees.
But it is “Annie” (1977) that has proven to be the long-term processor-for long-term (more than 2,300 shows). The adventures of the depression era dates the character of the famous comic tape Little Urfan Annie, the distinctive words of Martin Charinine and a book written by Thomas Mihan.
She starred in Andrea McCardel as a red -haired Mobbet and Dorothy Ludon, who won Tony for filming the riot of Miss Hanigan, who turned the orphanage. Musical gemstones like “You do not wear complete clothes without a smile” and “It is a difficult life.”
The 1982 movie release, which Carroll Burnett appeared in the role of Loudon, was not common or a good future. A play continued entitled “Annie Warbucks” Off-Broadway in 1993. The show was revived in Broadway in 2012 and was converted into a movie starring Quvenzhané Wallis in 2014. NBC put a copy on Network TV in 2021 entitled “Annie Live!”
Jay Zz was a fan
Strouse and Charnin, who won the Grammy Awards, found the two actors “Annie”, shrapnel from their works listed in the 1998 Jay-Z album “Volume 2 … Hard Knock Life.”
“Tomorrow” was heard from the soundtrack from “SHRK 2” to “Dave” to “I got the mail”. In 2016, Lukas Graham used parts of the choir from “Annie” because of his success “Mama Salled”.
Strouse had a share of fluctuations as well, including two shows – “A Broadway Musical” (1978) and “Dance A Closter”, a 1983 musician written with Alan Jae Lerner, who was closed after one show. Among the other musicians are less successful, “All-MARICAN” (1962), starring Ray Bolger, “It is a bird … it is a plane … it's a superman” (1966), directed by Harold Prenns, and “Bring Back Birdie” (1981), and it is a complement to “Bed Bere Birdie”.
However, its fluctuations contained impressive music, especially “Rags” (1986), with words of Stephen Schwartz, and “Me and Albert” (1972), which is a music for Queen Victoria, who was traveling for three months in London and was one of the preferred to Strouse. “All-MARICAN” also had an unforgettable song, “once.”
Among the strawn films, “Bonny and Clyde” (1967) and “The Night in which they raided Minsky” (1968).
One of the last musical plays was “Minsky”. A love story against the background of the legendary abandoned Empire was a daughter of the ideas of English director Mike Okment, who died due to leukemia in 1999 before the completion of the project. By that time, Susan Birkinheed Susan Birkinheed Susan Birkinheide wrote some songs.
“Minsky”, until Berkinid conducted the designer of experts, Casey Nicolo, who asked Bob Martin, Star and one of the authors of “The Drowsy Chaperone” to write a new book. It was opened in Los Angeles in 2009, but it did not reach Broadway.
How did it start starting
Strouse always wanted to be a composer and study seriously – first in the late 1940s at Eastman School of Music in Rothschest, New York, with composer Aaron Colbindend at the Tanglo -Music Center in Massachusetts, with the composer, Mosul and music Nadia Bolanger in Paris.
The theater was gathered when he and Adams got an opportunity in the early fifties of the last century to write songs for the weekly calendar in a summer camp for the Redondax called Mansions Green. Such camps were training land for dozens of artists and writers.
He said in an interview with AP: “I will write a song and I would like to organize it and copy the parts.” “It was a rehearsal the next day on the ninth, so at four in the morning, I cross the lake with the parts that are still wet. I didn't like it. I wasn't happier.”
His wife, Barbara, died in 2023. He survived four children, Ben, Nick, Victoria and William.
