Marvin Laird, a prolific Broadway, film and TV composer, conductor and musical director who lent his talents to projects featuring such stars as Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Diana Ross ...
Joel Paley, best known as the book writer, lyricist and director of the hit off-Broadway musical Ruthless!, died on January 11 in Milford, Connecticut. According to the New York Times, his sister ...
The show, with music by Marvin Laird, portrayed a schoolgirl’s murderous theatrical ambition. Paley also performed in the parody dance group Les Ballets Trockadero. By Richard Sandomir Joel ...
Paley’s death followed by nearly six weeks that of Marvin Laird, his partner in marriage, who wrote the music to “Ruthless!” which opened in 1992. When the show was revived off-Broadway in ...