What is Jerry Herman?
{{Infobox person |module={{Infobox musical artist |embed=yes | background = non_performing_personnel | instrument = Piano | genre = [[Musical theatre]] | occupation = [[Composer]], [[Lyricist]] | years_active = 1954–2019 }} | name = Jerry Herman | image = Jerry Herman 2010.jpg | caption = Herman at the White House for the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors | birth_name = Gerald Sheldon Herman | birth_date = July 10, 1931 | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|12|26|1931|07|10|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Miami, Florida|Miami]], [[Florida]], U.S. | education =<small>{{Plainlist| *[[Parsons School of Design]], (attended -1952) [[architecture]] *[[University of Miami]], [[B.A.]] 1953 [[drama]]}}</small> | parents ={{Plainlist| *Harry Herman *Ruth Sachs Herman}} | partner =Martin Finkelstein (d. 1989)<ref> {{cite news |newspaper=New York Times |series=Theater |title=Celebrating His Music And Precious Life Itself |author-link=Bernard Weintraub |first=BERNARD |last=WEINRAUB |date=July 26, 1998 |access-date=2013-12-05 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/26/theater/theater-celebrating-his-music-and-precious-life-itself.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm}}</ref> | monuments =Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, U. Miami | website = [http://jerryherman.com/ Official website] | footnotes=<ref>{{cite book |title=Celebrity Locator 2006-2007 <!-- |author-link=Rob Ten-Tronck --> |first=Rob |last=Ten-Tronck |year=2005 |isbn=9780943213798 |access-date=2013-12-05 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NDT11q5kOj8C&pg=PA135 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre |publisher=[[University of Miami]] |access-date=2013-12-05 |url=http://www.as.miami.edu/theatrearts/ring-history.html}}</ref><ref> {{cite web |