Jerry Frankel, Prolific Broadway Producer, Is Dead at 88

FILE-- Jerry Frankel, right, with Kathleen Raitt, both producers of “Bonnie and Clyde,” at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York, Nov. 21, 2011. Frankel, who parlayed his success as a dress manufacturer in Dallas into a second act as a prolific producer of Broadway shows, nine of which earned him Tony Awards, died on Nov. 17, 2018, in Manhattan. He was 88. (Chad Batka for The New York Times)