David Shire

Composer

David Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, United States on July 3rd, 1937 and is the Composer. At the age of 86, David Shire biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
David Lee Shire
Date of Birth
July 3, 1937
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, United States
Age
86 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Actor, Composer, Film Score Composer, Songwriter
David Shire Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 86 years old, David Shire has this physical status:

Height
Not Available
Weight
Not Available
Hair Color
Grey
Eye Color
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Build
Slim
Measurements
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David Shire Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Jewish
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Yale University, Brandeis University
David Shire Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Talia Shire, ​ ​(m. 1970; div. 1980)​, Didi Conn ​(m. 1984)​
Children
2
Dating / Affair
Not Available
Parents
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David Shire Life

David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American singer and producer of stage musicals, film, and television scores.

The soundtracks to Pelham's 1976 film The Big Bus, The Conversation and All the President's Men, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline" are among his best-known works.

His other contributions include the score of Return to Oz (the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz), as well as the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Nearest Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now.

Didi Conn, a French actress, is married to Shire.

Personal life

Shire was married to actress Talia Shire, with whom he has one son, screenwriter Matthew Shire, from 1970 to 1980.

Since 1984, he has been married to actress Didi Conn. Daniel (born October 1992), who was diagnosed with autism, has a son.

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David Shire Career

Education and early career

Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg), and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire were born in Buffalo, New York. His family was Jewish. At the Nichols School, his secondary education was completed. Richard Maltby, Jr., a long-serving theater collaborator, wrote two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour, which were produced by the Yale Dramatic Association, where he performed two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour. Shire was also co-fronted a jazz group at school, the Shire-Fogg Quintet, and a Phi Beta Kappa honors scholar with a double major in English and music. He was a member of the Pundits and Elihu, and he received a degree in 1959 in magna cum laude.

Shire began a semester of graduate study at Brandeis University (where he was the first Eddie Fisher Fellow) and six months in the National Guard infantry, focusing as a dance class pianist, stage production, and society band pianist while still working with Maltby on musicals. The Sap of Life, One Sheridan Square Theater in Greenwich Village, was their first off-Broadway performance. In 1963, he co-wrote "Washington Square" with Bob Goldstein.

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What became of the ORIGINAL Pink Ladies from Grease

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 9, 2023
Nearly 45 years since Grease debuted in theaters, the beloved film is due to receive a prequel series that will look at how the 'Pink Ladies', the infamous clique, came to be. Entitled Grease: The Rise of the Pink Ladies, the forthcoming Paraphrasedoutput, is set to take place four years before the Grease performances, and it will feature Marisa Davila, Cheyenne Isabel Wells, Ari Notartomaso, and Tricia Fukuhara as the Pink Ladies we all know and love. Thanks to their matching pink jackets, tight bond, and fierce personalities, the Pink Ladies instantly became a central part of the franchise, but what ever happened to the women who starred as the original girl gang? FEMAIL has revealed what the original Pink Ladies are doing now as the world prepares for the new series. Here's everything you'll learn about the women who played the Pink Ladies in the original Grease from their other appearances and success to their marriage lives and scandals.

After Olivia Newton-John's death, where is the cast of Grease today?

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 9, 2022
Olivia Newton-John Easterling's husband, John Easterling, announced on Monday morning that she died on Monday morning at the age of 73. When she first took on the role of sweet and innocent Sandy Olsson in the 1978 musical Grease, she was best known as a singer and had three Grammy Awards under her belt. The Australian native received her fourth Grammy Award for her 1981 hit single Physical. Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, and she was in remission until the disease was recovered in 2013 for the second time in 2013. She cancer had erupted and spread to her bones in 2017, but the reason for her death is unknown. She Grease co-star John Travolta, who lost his wife, Kelly Preston, to breast cancer in 2020, was among the first to pay their respects to Newton-John on Monday. FEMAIL has taken a look back at everything she and the rest of the Grease cast have accomplished in the four decades following the actor's death.