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In 1980, Coleman served as producer and composer for the circus-themed Barnum, which co-starred Jim Dale and Glenn Close.

Later in the decade, he collaborated on Welcome to the Club ( 1988 ) with A. E.

Hotchner, and City of Angels ( 1989 ) with David Zippel.

In the latter, inspired by the hard-boiled detective film noir of the 1930s and ' 40s, he returned to his jazz roots, and the show was a huge critical and commercial success.

The 1990s brought more new Coleman musicals to Broadway: The Will Rogers Follies ( 1991 ), again with Comden and Green, The Life ( 1997 ), a gritty look at pimps, prostitutes, and assorted other lowlife in the big city, with Ira Gasman, and a revised production of Little Me.