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Crown Uptown Theatre owner Ted Morris dies

Ted Morris, founder and owner of the Crown Uptown Professional Dinner Theatre, died Tuesday night. He was 70.

Mr. Morris bought the former movie theater building in 1977 and remodeled it into a dinner theater. He was a funeral home director at the time, but said in an Eagle interview in 2006 that his first love had always been show business.

The theater opened in the summer of 1977 and has been operating since, with Mr. Morris producing hundreds of musicals, comedies and dramas.

A new musical, "Club Morocco," was scheduled to open tonight as part of a New Year's Eve party at the Crown. An associate of Mr. Morris said the show would go on as scheduled.

Mr. Morris would have turned 71 on New Year's Day. Services are pending.

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