Coleman, Cy

Coleman, Cy [né Seymour Kaufman] (1929–2004), composer. A New Yorker who gave concerts as a child prodigy, he later studied at New York's High School of Music and Art and at the New York College of Music. Coleman worked as a nightclub pianist before contributing his first Broadway song to John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953). His Big Band and jazz‐influenced scores have been heard in Wildcat (1960), Little Me (1962), Sweet Charity (1966), Seesaw (1973), I Love My Wife (1977), On the Twentieth Century (1978), Barnum (1980), City of Angels (1989), Welcome to the Club (1989), The Will Rogers Follies (1991), and The Life (1997). Coleman has collaborated with a variety of lyricists, including Carolyn Leigh, Dorothy Fields, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green.