Jerry Herman died within the last four weeks.
It seems that there is an Obit thread for Herman at Mudcat,
and that the thread has been …
deleted?

I don't know what was wrong with that thread.

Can't we please celebrate Jerry Herman with a Mudcat thread?

New York Times: Obit, Jerry Herman, 1931 - 2019

Herman died of causes related to
his years-long struggle with HIV/AIDS,
he did enjoy a good quality of life with
treatment that was temporarily successful.

He died in Miami, to which city
he had a lifelong connection,
having gone to school there in his youth.

I could not link to the obituary article in the Miami Herald;
this is an indepth article which might be worth
reproducing in full on this thread.

In case you don't recall what Jerry Herman contributed,
in words and music, to the world of musical theater:

the musical version of Auntie Mame,
starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur.

Hello, Dolly, the musical adaptation
of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker.
This theatrical warhorse is associated with
Carol Channing,
Ginger Rogers,
Pearl Bailey,
for the film it was Barbra Streisand,
and let us not forget
jazz grandfather Louis Armstrong
who had a hit record with the title song.

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That thread was started by the old Mudcat troll and contained the usual nonsense that he's known for. ---mudelf