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Benjamin Walker, center left, as Andrew Jackson and Darren Goldstein as his father in "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version" in 2009. Mr. Friedman was co-creator of the musical about the nation's seventh president.
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Michael Friedman
Died on September 9, 2017 at age 41
A versatile, cerebral and witty composer and lyricist, Mr. Friedman brought a historian’s eye and a journalistic sensibility to pathbreaking work off and on Broadway.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.