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- Height4′ 11″ (1.50 m)
- Hershy Kay was born on November 17, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Hershy was a composer, known for The King and Four Queens (1956), Bite the Bullet (1975) and Center Stage (2000). Hershy died on December 2, 1981 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Orchestrator of several classical music pieces, some not originally composed for orchestra, and co-orchestrator of several Broadway shows, most notably some of Leonard Bernstein's, including "Candide", "On the Town", and the 1950 semi-musical Broadway revival of "Peter Pan", starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff.
- Together with Andrew Lloyd Webber, he orchestrated the stage version of "Evita".
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