Albert Hague

Composer/professional Albert Hague is most beneficial referred to as the white-bearded Teacher Shorofsky, the succinct music instructor within the 1980 MGM/United Performers movie Popularity. He reprised the function over the same-named tv series that shown on January 7, 1982, through August 4, 1983, on NBC-TV. Learning to be a first-run syndication series, the present went for four periods from 1983 to 1987 and was a big success in European countries. His real-life encounters gave the function a particular authenticity. Hague went to the Royal Conservatory in Rome and the faculty of Music from the School of Cincinnati, graduating using a B.A. level in music in 1942. Blessed Oct 13, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, at age 18, Hague escaped Nazi Germany and journeyed to America. Settling in Cincinnati, OH, he became a boogie-woogie pianist. After portion in World Battle II, he transferred to NEW YORK and started playing in Spanish orchestras. Afterwards becoming a effective Broadway composer, Hague gained a 1959 Tony Award for the rating from the Broadway musical Redhead. His various other credits include Ordinary and Luxury, which spawned the typical “Youthful and Foolish.” NY casting movie director Howard Feuer known as and asked Hague if he’d prefer to audition for a component in Fame, despite the fact that Hague had hardly ever acted before. He also co-wrote music over the soundtrack from the CBS-TV particular The way the Grinch Stole Xmas and different soundtracks in the Fame Television series released by RCA Information through the ’80s. Along with his wife, Renée Orin, he documented the 1997 Compact disc Still Adolescent and Foolish.