Michael Grossman; Ahmanson’s Ex-Managing Director
Michael Grossman, former managing director of the Los Angeles Music Center’s Ahmanson Theatre, who produced more than 60 shows, has died in Rancho Mirage. He was 48.
Grossman died Saturday at the Eisenhower Medical Center of the complications of AIDS.
After 15 years with the Ahmanson’s Center Theatre Group, Grossman moved to Palm Desert in 1985 to build the McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Bob Hope Cultural Center. He resigned as the new theatre’s executive director shortly before it opened Jan. 2, 1988.
The Desert Theatre League honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in December for his contributions to local arts.
Grossman had worked in several AIDS support groups and was president of Being Alive, which assists AIDS patients.
He is survived by his mother, Jeannie Grossman, and brother, Tom Grossman, both of Palm Springs.
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