Michael Friedman, an Obie Award-winning composer and lyricist known for the musicals “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” and “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” died Sept. 9 in New York. The cause was complications from HIV/AIDS, said Oskar Eustis and Patrick Willingham, the artistic and executive directors of the Public Theater in Manhattan. Mr. Friedman was an artist in residence at the theater and the director of its audience engagement program. His best-known work was the rock musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which he created with writer Alex Timbers. That tension is what makes the best musicals good: trying to subvert this while also paying homage to it.”

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2017 19:52 UTC