Lucy Simon was a popular song and theatre composer from the United States and the mother of two adult children Julie, and James.
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Simon began her professional career as the Simon Sisters, singing folk songs with sister Carly Simon, and later as a folk-rock singer.
Lucy Simon made her Broadway debut as the composer of The Secret Garden, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music in 1991.
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Lucy Simon had been collaborating with Birkenhead and Emily Mann on the musical On Cedar Street, based on the 2015 book Our Souls at Night and directed by Victoria Clark.
Her battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer forced her to withdraw from the project. Simon also contributed to the Off-Broadway musical Mama and Her Boys.
Lucy Simon died Thursday, October 20, 2022, at her Piedmont, New York, home after a long battle with breast cancer, according to a family spokesperson. She was 82 years old.


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