Michael Friedman, an Obie-winning composer and lyricist known for the musicals « Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson » and « Love’s Labour’s Lost, » has died. He was 41.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Friedman, an Obie-winning composer and lyricist known for the musicals « Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson » and « Love’s Labour’s Lost, » has died. He was 41.
Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham say Friedman passed away Saturday of complications related to HIV/AIDS in New York.
Friedman’s best-known work is the rock musical « Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson » which imagines the seventh president of the United States as an emo rock star. First performed in 2008, « Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson » opened on Broadway in September 2010 and closed in January 2011 after 120 performances.
Friedman was a co-founder of The Civilians and artist-in-residence and director of Public Forum at The Public Theater.
Eustis said in a statement that Friedman was one of the most brilliant, multi-talented theater artists of our time.
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