David Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals and film and television scores. Born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Shire, he met his long-time theater collaborator lyricist/director Richard Maltby, Jr. at Yale University, where the two wrote two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour, which were produced by the Yale Dramat.
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