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Ken Wydro Dies: ‘Mama, I Want To Sing’ Co-Creator & Producer Was 81
'Mama, I Want To Sing' was inspired by the life of 1960s "Just One Look" singer Doris Troy and was adapted for film in 2011.
Ken Wydro (1989)Jeff Goode/Toronto Star via Getty Images Ken Wydro, who co-created, co-wrote and produced the long-running 1983 Off Broadway hit musical Mama, I Want To Sing inspired by the life of 1960s “Just One Look” singer Doris Troy, died on Tuesday, January 21, at his home in Harlem, New York. Wydro, a producer of such Broadway productions as 1988’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and, in 2008, a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo starring Cedric the Entertainer, John Leguizamo and Haley Joel Osment, will be best remembered for Mama, I Want To Sing(which he created with wife Vy Higginsen, the sister of Doris Troy). The author of two plays, Secrets: The Untold Story Of Sigmund Freud And Carl Jung and Vice Versa, Wydro is survived by Higginsen, his wife of 44 years, and daughter Ahmaya Knoelle Higginson-Wydro.
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