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Posted: 2017-09-11T14:28:44Z | Updated: 2017-09-11T14:28:44Z

Michael Friedman, a versatile, cerebral, and witty composer and lyricist who brought a historians eye and a journalistic sensibility to pathbreaking work off and on Broadway, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 41.

The cause was complications of HIV/AIDS, according to the Public Theater, which announced his death.

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