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  Jerry Herman: Broadway composer whose hit shows included Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles

  Jerry Herman was one the most successful composer-lyricists in musical theatre history, and the only one to have three shows – Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles – run for more than 1,500 performances on Broadway.Herman, who has died aged 88, was first exposed to music at the age of seven when his mother, a singer-pianist, gave him piano lessons. When he was 14, his parents took him to see Ethel Merman in Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun.

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  Rachel Bloom: Live! review, London Palladium: a beautiful, heart-stopping, breathtaking hodgepodge

  Until Rachel Bloom was in her early twenties, she listened only to show tunes – most of them, she quipped on the last of her two-night “tour” in London, from before the Sixties. The comedian, actress and songwriter grew up beholden by spotlight-stealers such as Carol Burnett and Ethel Merman, women who combined heart with humour and poured both out on stage.

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