As the only major woman lyricist of the golden age of American popular song and musical theater, Dorothy Fields stood virtually alone among men for almost fifty years after she began her career in the 1920s, writing lyrics for Harlem's Cotton Club...

BETWEEN GARDENS BY CAROL GRAHAM CHUDLEY & DOROTHY FIELD POLESTAR, 1999 $24.95 238 PP ILLUSTRATED Suppose your best friend were an artist, with a poet's preternatural powers of vision -- and that you could be inside her mind, looking out through...

In the male, Jewish club of great songwriters, there were two anomalies - Cole Porter and Dorothy Fields. Fields wrote for Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Arthur Schwartz, and others, lyrics for Depression- era cheerer-uppers ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), meltingly romantic ballads...

Thommie Walsh, a Tony-winning choreographer who was in the original Broadway cast of "A Chorus Line," has died after a long battle with lymphoma. He was 57.Walsh died Saturday at his mother's home in Auburn, New York, his manager, Robert Duva, said Monday.Walsh was best...

Thommie Walsh, a Tony-winning choreographer who was in the original Broadway cast of "A Chorus Line," has died after a long battle with lymphoma. He was 57.Walsh died Saturday at his mother's home in Auburn, N.Y., his manager, Robert Duva, said Monday.Walsh was best known...