Composer, lyricist, musical director, arranger, pianist and actor, Brian Alan Lasser was born on February 8, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. He died at age 40 on November 20, 1992 in New York, a victim of AIDS. In Chicago, Lasser received his initial training in musical theater and returned to the Windy City to embark on a career as an actor/singer/dancer after studying at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. …