'''Stanley Lebowsky''' ({{IPAc-en|l|ə|ˈ|b|aʊ|s|k|i}}; November 26, 1926 – October 19, 1986) was a Hollywood and Broadway composer, lyricist, conductor and music director who conducted more than a dozen Broadway musicals including ''Chicago'', ''Half a Sixpence'', ''Irma La Douce'', ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', ''Pippin'', ''The 1940's Radio Hour'', and ''The Act''. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died at Mount Sinai West in Manhattan,<ref>{{cite news |title=Stanley Lebowsky, 59, A Top Broadway Musical Conductor |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24951485.html?dids=24951485:24951485&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+21,+1986&author=Associated+Press&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=STANLEY+LEBOWSKY,+59,+A+TOP+BROADWAY+MUSICAL+CONDUCTOR&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131152523/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24951485.html?dids=24951485:24951485&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+21,+1986&author=Associated+Press&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=STANLEY+LEBOWSKY,+59,+A+TOP+BROADWAY+MUSICAL+CONDUCTOR&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2013 |quote=Stanley Lebowsky, who served as conductor for some of Broadway's biggest musical hits, including the current smash "Me and My Girl," is dead at 59. Mr. Lebowsky died of a heart attack Sunday in St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. |newspaper=Associated Press |date=October 21, 1986 |accessdate=2010-12-19 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Fraser|first=C. Gerald|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/20/obituaries/stanley-lebowsky-59-dies-conducted-broadway-shows.html|title=Stanley Lebowsky, 59, Dies; Conducted Broadway Shows|date=1986-10-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-02-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/personrolespage/person-role-page|title=Stanley Lebowsky Broadway Credits|website=Playbill|language=en|access-date=2020-02-09}}</ref> survived by his wife Carol Estey.
Lebowsky was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director in 1961 for ''Irma La Douce''. In 1987 he was given a Drama Desk Special Award.
==Works== ;Musicals *''Gantry'' (1970) – composer
;Songs *"Take Off with Us" from ''All That Jazz'' (1979) and ''Fosse'' (1999) *"The Wayward Wind" (1956)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0495885}} *{{IBDB name}}
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