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Saturday, 17 September 2016

Tony-winning executive Jack Hofsiss kicks the bucket at 65




American theater-film executive Jack Hofsiss, who turned into the most youthful to win the Tony Award for his organizing of "The Elephant Man", has kicked the bucket. He was 65.

The executive passed away on September 13 at his Manhattan home, affirmed by the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, which gave no reason for death pending an examination, reported Deadline.

"I knew him as a craftsman and considerably all the more so as an astounding, profoundly kind individual," said maker James Freydberg. "I was

exceptionally solid supporter of his. He thought about everybody. I would get notification from him ordinarily when he had something he needed me to take a gander at."

While still in school, Hofsiss co-made and arranged "Senior Prom", a musical that from every angle was Broadway bound, however it never finished the adventure.

Hofsiss was working for Joseph Papp at the Public Theater when an exceptional maker named Richmond Crinkley sent him Bernard Pomerance's script about John Merrick, an oddly distorted man who moves from oddity show act to social sweetheart in Victorian London.

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