The Lion King on Broadway Star Clifton Oliver Dead at 47
While Hall did not share Oliver's cause of death, she did note that he had recently been in the hospital.
"I will value my time with him the last six weeks of his life that I spent at his bedside in the hospital and then finally hospice," Hall concluded. "I was able to love on my baby brother, and I will always cherish the memories of having an honor and privilege to do just that! There will be more information to come, as we begin to plan the Celebration of Clifton Oliver!""'Look at the stars.
In honor of Oliver's legacy, the show noted a "dimming of the lights" will take place at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York on Aug. 8. Oliver was born in 1975 and grew up in Jacksonville, Fla.—where he attended the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts—before moving to New York in 2010 to pursue a career on Broadway, according to
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