The Tony Award-winning American playwright Terrence McNally, who was a crucial voice in illuminating the lives of LGBTQ people in the U.S., has died of complications related to COVID-19. He was 81.
, composer John Kander — who, alongside lyricist Fred Ebb, collaborated with McNally on several shows, including— called him a gracious co-creator."[McNally] is very good at writing a scene that has five pages in it that he knows perfectly well we're going to steal and musicalize," Kander said,"but where he will let a character go on in dialogue in a way which is probably unnatural for him emotionally to do. And he does that in order to turn Fred and me on to musicalizing it.
Among his other awards were an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, four Drama Desk Awards, two Obies and an induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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