Broadway composer Charles Strouse wins Tony Award for his results Goodbye bird,,,,, applause and AnnieHis family announced he died Thursday at his home in New York City. He is 96 years old.

Strouse is a member of the Songwriter Hall of Fame and Drama Hall of Fame, writing music for more than a dozen Broadway shows.

He and the lyricist Martin Charnin Anniehe and his most common collaborator, lyricist Lee Adams Goodbye bird"You have the possibility of possibility" This is a bird...This is an airplane...It is a superman and “This is life” Golden Boy.

ask poster In 2009, Strouse was in the theater and replied: "You can make a lot of money and meet beautiful girls. This is under many other things.

Strouse's voice went beyond the stage, and his film scored Bonnie & Clyde (1967), The night they raided Minsky (1968) and animation All dogs go to heaven (1989). He and Adams also wrote “That’s the Day,” the theme song of the famous Norman Lear sitcom The whole family.

Charles Louis Strouse was born on June 7, 1928 and grew up on the upper west side of Manhattan. His mother, Ethel, was a pianist and introduced him to music. "She is a very sad woman," he said. "I started tinkering with her on the piano to make her happy. I think she liked it. My ears were great and I took the class." One of his friends nearby was Burt Bacharach.

At the age of 15, Strouse began studying classical works at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. His initial interest was “serious music,” after Eastman, he received a scholarship at the Tangerwood Music Center in Massachusetts, where he met Leonard Bernstein and studied under Aaron Copland. (In his career, Strouse has written many classical works, including the 1982 opera nightingale, Starring Sarah Brightman. )

He met Adams at a Christmas party in the late 1940s, and the two wrote music for Revues in the green mansion in the Adirondacks. A stage manager there came up with an idea about what the teenagers originally called the show Let us stabilize;It will become the 1960s Goodbye birdStrouse's first Broadway show.

"Many of our generation - Sheldon Harnick of Carol Burnett, work in these summer camps," he told NPR. "They are places where young New Yorkers go to meet, eat, play tennis, swim. We have a full theater staff at the Green Building - sets, costumes, orchestras. We wrote an original review every Saturday night throughout the summer."

A huge blow, Little Bird Starring in Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke and featured some of Strouse's most famous songs, including "Wearing Happy Face" and "A lot of livin."

“Little Bird It’s enjoyable and fun, it’s exciting to hear “Spanish Rose” for the first time, and we love what we do every day, thanks to Charles and the team,” Rivera said on Strouse’s 90th birthday. “Thank you for filling my life with music and being a part of me. ”

Struce and Adams continued to write several musicals together, including the 1962 All over the United States; 1964 Golden Boystarring Sammy Davis Jr.; 1966 This is a bird...This is an airplane...It is a supermanwith Linda Lavin; and the 1970s applause,adaptation About Eve That starred by Lauren Bacall.

Struth describes their relationship as marriage.

“We have been working very closely together,” Struce told poster In 2008. "I'm with everyone, but my marriage to Lee is even more married. That is, we give and grab each other and argue like married people. I'm still close to him. One of the reasons we don't work today is that he lives a healthier life, healthier than me.

Struth said their process usually starts with him writing a song on the tape, and Adams provides specific feedback on the music. "I would say it's Lee's secret to work with me, and can be 'married', so to say: he's very open to me," Strose said. "If he doesn't like it, or if he does, he'll say, 'Can't we do the middle part faster?' Or."

However, Adams did not work with Struce Annie. Charnin is an old friend of Strouse's, whose idea is to perform a musical based on the comic character Little Annie, Little orphan, but Strouse is skeptical.

"I hate this idea. I hate it because I did a show called This is a bird...This is an airplane...It is a supermanIt's closed in four months," Struce said. "Its producer and director Hal Prince always said to me that if you write for kids, it's better to make sure it's performed as an adult and parents can bring their kids to sell. If it were a children's show, it wouldn't be that successful. Sure enough, he hit something. ”

The musical will continue to perform "Tomorrow" on Broadway and around the world on Spurn Productions and Little Girls. The show won Tony's Best Musical and recovered twice on Broadway.

"When I was a 6-year-old girl, I just based my opinion on how they feel and how they feel and how they treat me. When I first met Charles Strouse, I was 100% fascinated with him," Danielle Brisebois played Molly in the original work. "His warm smile and his soul's eyes...he is always inspiring, considerate and kind. I don't know I'm in front of the legend!"

He also won an Emmy for his work on TV adaptation Annie and Goodbye bird There is also a pair of Grammys Annie.

But Struth's profession is not the entire blow. All over the United Stateshe is Goodbye bird He wrote with Adams and Mel Brooks, which closed three months later in 1962. Dance a littlethe lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner closed after a show in 1983, and then Nick and Nora Closed after nine performances in '93.

"Everyone has failed," he said. "When I teach, the students said, 'How can you work on the show for three or four years...it will it fail? How do you recover from it?' The only answer is, you've tried your best, it doesn't work, what's next?"

He published his memoirs, Wearing a happy face, In 2008.

He married Barbara Siman, director and choreographer in 1962, who had Benjamin (writer) a child from Nicholas, Victoria. Looking for Dolly) and William (also screenwriter).