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'''David Kernan''' (1938-2023) devoted most of his career to musical theatre, gaining a reputation as Britain’s leading interpreter of the Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim’s songs <ref> https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/16/david-kernan-obituary The Guardian 17 January 2024 </ref>. His father walked out shortly after his birth in [[East Ham]] [[London]] and, from the age of four to 14, Kernan lived with his grandmother in [[Oxford]], where he was head chorister at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.

Aged 15, he left Portchester school, Bournemouth, trained as a chef and performed with the local Shakespeare Players. He then worked as a shop assistant in London before breaking into repertory theatre as an assistant stage manager and actor at the Theatre Royal, [[Huddersfield]] (1957) <ref> op cit Obituary in the Guardian 17 January 2024 </ref>.His autobiography, From East Ham to Broadway, was published in 2019.

Kernan is survived by his husband, Stuart Forsyth, whom he married in 2014 following a civil partnership in 2008.

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