Stage and screen star René Auberjonois, who earned a Tony Award for his featured turn in 1970's Coco, passed away on December 8, according to The New York Times. The cause was metastatic lung cancer. He was 79. Auberjonois made his Broadway debut in King Lear (1968), and quickly followed that with appearances in A Cry of Players (1968), Fire! (1969) and his first Tony-nominated turn in Coco, which went on to earn h…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM on December 9, 2019