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.
Strine died at his home in New York City.
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. Jin Thompson, who appeared at the first “Annie” Kubber, reminds the version of “Annie” in 2024, and Starus recalls the tests and receives a tear when she sang a little girl “tomorrow”. She said: “He is very generous and gentle. He has always been so.”
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 in the end.
“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.
Strose and Adams gave many non -musical theater stars, including Sammy Davis JR. And Lauren Bacall, theater successes for “Golden Boy” and “All About Eve”, respectively.
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!”
Strouse and Charnin, who won the Grammy Awards, found the two actors “Annie”, companies from their works listed in the 1998 Jay-Z album “Volume 2 … Hard Knock Life.”
“Tomorrow” was heard from “SHRK 2” to “Dave” to “I got the mail.” In 2016, Lukas Graham used parts of the “Annie” choir because of his success “Mama Sallen”.
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”.
Among the strawn films, “Bonny and Clyde” (1967) and “The Night in which they raided Minsky” (1968).
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.
