The legendary Arthur Laurents, who wrote the books for Gypsy and West Side Story and directed the original productions of La Cage Aux Folles, Hallelujah, Baby! and the infamous Nick & Nora, died yesterday at the age of 93. Laurents was the collaborator, friend and frenemy of, among others, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, David Merrick, Barbra Streisand, a…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:52AM on May 6, 2011