I was very sad to hear about Michael's passing.
I was good friends with Michael when I still lived in NY. And I'm proud to say that I was responsible for getting him hired on ONWARD VICTORIA, for which I was the MD.That show and a big plug from Ralph Burns got Michael the job on WOMAN OF THE YEAR and began his relationship with John Kander (which continued to his death.)Michael and I also shared a love of flying. He was a licensed pilot when we first met, and I later got my ratings and then as a flight instructor. Michael came out to Los Angeles to visit in the late 80's and we went tooling about the California sky in my PIPER COMANCHE. Since I had my rating as a flight instructor, I was able to log it in his log book as flight instruction which made us both laugh. Talk about LAZY CIRCLES IN THE SKY. We flew all over central California, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara.Videos