CHOREOGRAPHER JEROME ROBBINS DIES AFTER STROKE.(Entertainment)(Obituary)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: July 30, 1998 | Copyright information

Jerome Robbins, one of modern ballet's master choreographers and director of such legendary Broadway musicals as ``West Side Story,'' ``Gypsy,'' and ``Fiddler on the Roof,'' died yesterday at the age of 79.

Robbins had suffered a stroke Saturday at his Manhattan home, said Steve Miller, a spokesman for the New York City Ballet.

It was at City Ballet where Robbins created most of his more than 50 ballets. Robbins refocused much of his energy there, starting in the mid-1960s, after working on Broadway choreographing and/or directing such hits as ``The King and I,'' ``The ...

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