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Prolific Broadway and Off-Broadway Director Mark Brokaw Dies at 66 by Darryn King

The Drama Desk-, Obie- and Lucille Lortel Award-winning director Mark Brokaw died of cancer on June 29. He was 66. Born in 1958, Brokaw grew up on a farm in the small town of Aledo, Illinois, where, every year, he would watch the television broadcast of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella"the musical he would eventually direct on Broadway. "I think I always knew I would be a director," he told The New York Times in 1…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PM on July 1, 2025

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