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'Hairspray' Tony Award-winner Dick Latessa dies at 87 by Mark Kennedy

A veteran Broadway actor who was in the original productions of "Follies," ''Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "The Will Rogers Follies" and who won a Tony Award playing Harvey Fierstein's onstage husband in the original cast of "Hairspray" has died. Dick Latessa died Monday at age 87.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:12PM on December 20, 2016

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