 Later that year MacLaine took the show to the Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles 

Adler died of cancer in November 1984 at the age of 30.Working from his bed at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he completed the book and lyrics for "Gideon Starr", a musical about a modern-day messiah.His father and brother Andrew each read a stanza from this final work at his memorial service in the Shubert Theatre.