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Roger Horchow, Two-Time Tony-Winning Producer, Dies at 91

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Roger Horchow, the former mail-order magnate who received Tony Awards for producing the 1992 Gershwin musical Crazy for You and a 2000 revival of Kiss Me, Kate, has died.

He was 91. Horchow died Saturday at his home in Dallas of complications related to cancer, his family announced. A onetime Neiman Marcus employee, Horchow founded The Horchow Collection, believed to be the first luxury mail-ordercatalog without a bricks-and-mortar presence, in 1971.

Seventeen years later, with the company sporting annual sales of more than $100 million, he sold it to the Neiman Marcus Group for an undisclosed sum.

The transaction provided seed money for his career as a Broadway producer.Crazy for You, his debut effort, featured choreography from Susan.

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