Cy Coleman, 75; Tony-Winning Composer Also Wrote Pop Hits
LA Times
Cy Coleman, the Tony Award-winning composer of such Broadway shows as “Sweet Charity,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “City of Angels,” who also wrote some of the most enduring songs in pop music, including “Witchcraft” and “The Best Is Yet to Come,” died Thursday night. He was 75. Coleman and his wife, Shelby, had attended the opening-night performance on Broadway of the Michael Frayn play “Democracy” and were at a party after the performance when Coleman said he was feeling ill. He went to New York Hospital, where he collapsed and died of heart failure, according to John Barlow, his publicist.
