Yes, a sad loss and a surprising one. An obituary I read in Variety misstated that Coco, for which he wrote the music, won the Best Musical Tony Award. It didn't (lost to Applause), but his musical touch extended from movies to Broadway to the concert stages of the world. He will certainly be...
I have that West Side Story novelization, but I never bothered getting the one for My Fair Lady because the play itself was in paperback, and wanted the REAL thing. If they had released the play of West Side Story, I would have gotten that instead, too.