Edgar Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning producer and youthful brother of actress Angela Lansbury, died Thursday at age 94 at his house in Manhattan, based on his son. No trigger was given.
Peggy Gordon, who performed in Lansbury’s Godspell, posted the information on Fb.
“My large cute and adoring Godspell household, we now have now misplaced our surrogate daddy, Edgar Lansbury. How blessed was he to stay such a full, wealthy, great life surrounded by individuals who adored him. Don Scardino says there will likely be a memorial most likely this fall. Contact any and your whole Godspell members of the family from all ten unique corporations, plus London (hello Homosexual) and anybody else I”ve missed. Man, if Joe Beruh was ready for Edgar with a cigarette in his mouth, I’ve little doubt Edgar made Joe stomp on it. Love by no means dies. It’s an power that solely transmutes into matter. That’s all of us. So, I imagine Edgar’s power continues.”
His credit included the Broadway and movie productions of Godspell and The Topic Was Roses (his Broadway debut and which received the Tony for Greatest Play in 1964), in addition to the 1974 Broadway revival of Gypsy that starred his sister, Angela, and received a Tony.
Movie and tv credit embrace The Wild Celebration, Blue Sunshine, Squirm, and Coronet Blue.
Different Broadway credit embrace The Solely Recreation in City (1968), Look to the Lilies (1970), The Magic Present (1974), American Buffalo (1977, Drama Desk Nomination), and Lennon (2005).
Lansbury was additionally a producer on the 2011 Broadway Revival of Godspell.
Lansbury’s off-Broadway credit embrace Promenade on the Promenade Theater on the Higher West Aspect, which he designed and operated, Arms and the Man, Ready for Godot, Lengthy Day’s Journey into Evening, and As Bees In Honey Drown (Drama Desk nomination).
He acquired the John Houseman Award in 2007, given by The Appearing Firm to honor his dedication to the event of classical actors and a nationwide viewers for the theater.
Survivors embrace his youngsters David, an actor, James (an assistant director on Seinfeld), George, Michael, Brian and Kate, and his second spouse, artist Louise Peabody.