1. Cy Coleman's mother, Ida was an apartment landlady and his father was a brickmason.
10 Facts About Cy Coleman
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Cy Coleman was a child prodigy who gave piano recitals at venues such as Steinway Hall, Town Hall, and Carnegie Hall between the ages of six and nine.
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Cy Coleman collaborated on I Love My Wife with Michael Stewart, On the Twentieth Century with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Home Again, Home Again with Barbara Fried, although the latter never reached Broadway.
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In 1980, Cy Coleman served as producer and composer for the circus-themed Barnum, which co-starred Jim Dale and Glenn Close.
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Cy Coleman has been the only composer to win consecutive Tony awards for Best Score at the same time that the corresponding musicals won for Best Musical: City of Angels and The Will Rogers Follies.
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Cy Coleman was on the ASCAP Board of Directors for many years and served as their Vice Chairman Writer.
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One final musical with a Cy Coleman score played in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum between December 2003 and January 2004, under the title Like Jazz, as a Broadway tryout.
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Cy Coleman died of cardiac arrest at 11:59 pm on November 18,2004, at New York Hospital, aged 75.
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Cy Coleman won three Emmy Awards and two Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.
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Cy Coleman was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame and received an Honorary Doctorate from Hofstra University in 2000.