Theater Legend Cy Feuer Dead at 95
"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Cy Feuer, one of the truly great men of the American theater," League of American Theatres and Producers Chairman Gerald Schoenfeld said in a statement. "For more than 50 years, since Cy produced Can-Can in 1953, I have had the joy of knowing and working with him. He will be truly missed by all of us who have been touched by his life and work."
Born in Brooklyn on January 15, 1911, Feuer planned to pursue a career in music before getting into the theater. With his partner, the late Ernest H. Martin, he produced such musicals as Where's Charley, Guys and Dolls which won a Tony for Best Musical, Can-Can, The Boy Friend, Silk Stockings, Whoop-Up, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying which received a Tony Award for Best Musical and also earned Feuer a Tony for Best Producer, Little Me, The Goodbye People and The Act. He directed as well as produced Skyscraper, Whoop-Up, Little Me and Walking Happy and additionally directed the play I Remember Mama. From 1989-2003, Feuer was President and later Chairman of The League of American Theatres and Producers. In 2003, he received Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. That same year a Feuer memoir, I Got the Show Right Here: The Amazing True Story of How an Obscure Brooklyn Horn Player Became the Last Great Broadway Showman, written with Ken Gross, was published.