Jeffrey Lane, Tony-Nominated Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Librettist and Emmy-Winning TV Writer, Dies at 71
Jeffrey Lane, the Emmy-winning television writer and producer who found a second act on Broadway as the Tony-nominated librettist of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, died on May 20 in New York following a lengthy illness, according to Deadline. He was 71. Born Jeffrey Scott Lane on August 10, 1954, in St. Louis and raised in Wantagh on Long Island, he developed an early passion for theater, running a teenage theatrical tro…