Roger Berlind, a producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals and the winner of 25 Tony Awards, has died. He was 90.

He died Dec. 18 at his home in Montana. His family said cardiopulmonary arrest was to blame, The New York Times reported.

The Brooklyn-born Berlind enjoyed a four-decade career that boosted the success of actors including Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons.

He wasn’t born into the theater, though. Despite youthful aspirations as a songwriter, he found work on Wall Street, becoming a brokerage partner before the death of his wife and three of four children in a June 1975 plane crash in New York City that changed the trajectory of his life.

He told the Times in 1998 that building a business and making money didn’t make sense to him anymore.

Eventually, he turned to Broadway, redefining himself through a new career.

Brook Berlind, his second wife, defined the switch in stage terms.

“His life was utterly bifurcated by the accident,” she said. “There was Act I and Act II. I don’t think many other people could have gone on to such success after such catastrophe.”

His debut production in 1976 of Rex, a Richard Rodgers musical about Henry VIII, was panned by a Times theater critic. His last show, a Tony winner brought to the stage by multiple producers, was the 2019 revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma.

Other shows included the original 1980 production of Amadeus, which won a Tony for best play, and Sophisticated Ladies, a 1981 musical with a two-year run featuring music by Duke Ellington.

Star-studded revivals included Death of a Salesman in 2012 with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Hello Dolly in 2017 with Bette Midler.

Throughout his career, Berlind took the flops in stride with the successes, finding value in some losing productions.

“I know it’s not worth it economically,” he told The Times in 1998. “But I love theater.”

Berlind exhibited his own flair for the dramatic after the Sept. 11 attacks when he took then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s encouragement of Broadway to heart and appeared onstage on Sept. 23 after the conclusion of what had been scheduled to be the last performance of Kiss Me, Kate.

“The show will go on,” he declared to an emotional audience, extending a two-year run for three months despite declining sales.

Survivors include his wife and son, two granddaughters and a brother.

Congratulations are in order for Nick Cannon and his girlfriend, Brittany Bell, who welcomed their second child together.

The former Miss Arizona USA took to Instagram on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) to announce the birth of the couple’s new baby daughter.

“The best gift ever we have been surprised with… A GIRL!!!!!” Bell captioned a holiday-themed slideshow of family photos. “Powerful Queen Cannon came this week perfect timing for Christmas.”

Cannon and Bell also share their 3-year-old son, Golden.

The new mother’s photo gallery includes several photos of the happy family, including one of the new parents sweetly embracing their newborn daughter, and others of Cannon dressed up as Santa Claus while happily posing alongside his girlfriend and kids.

“So much more to share,” Bell added in the caption. “All I can say is that Nick was my rock through the most intense yet empowering natural water birth. It was nothing but POWERFUL Merry Christmas!!!! THANK YOU GOD.”

See the adorable Christmas-themed slideshow of Cannon’s beautiful family here.

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Last year, on Christmas Day, the Kanye West-led gospel group, Sunday Service Choir, released its debut album Jesus Is Born. Today, Dec. 25, West is keeping with the tradition thanks to a surprise EP of compositions titled Emmanuel performed by Sunday Service.

Much like Jesus Is Born — which debuted at No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart (dated Jan. 4, 2020) — the new project arrives as a “celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ,” according to the release. West executive produced and composed the sweeping and emotive Emmanuel, which includes five tracks of ancient and Latin-inspired new compositions.

West cemented his recommitment to Christianity with the launch of his Sunday Service gatherings, which delivered its first public performance during the second weekend of Coachella in 2019 (on Easter, April 21). Six months later, West dropped Jesus Is King, which summited the Top Gospel Albums and Top Christian Albums charts.

See the Emmanuel track list below:

1. REQUIEM AETERNAM

2. O MIRA NOX

3. O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM

4. PUER

5. GLORIA