- Dick Gallagher
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Dick Gallagher (October 16, 1955 - January 20, 2005) was a pianist and composer, best known on the New York cabaret scene.
He co-wrote scores for several musicals:
- Have I Got a Girl for You: The Frankenstein Musical (1986)
- What Not, which won the 1990 Richard Rodgers Production Award
- Whoop-Dee-Doo! (1993), which was nominated for the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award and won the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Revue
- When Pigs Fly (1996), which was produced internationally after an extended run in New York, and won the 1996 Outer Critics Circle award for Best Musical Revue, and the Drama Desk Award for Best Off-Broadway musical
He also wrote the title song for You Should Be So Lucky. He was also involved in two shows for the theatre company, Theatre Works: Gold Rush and A Christmas.
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Categories:- American composers
- American songwriters
- American pianists
- 1955 births
- 2005 deaths
- American composer, 20th century birth stubs
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