question: What is the birthdate of this American librettist, playwright, and actor, who was part of the song "Being Alive" from the musical "Company"?
answer: December 14, 1932
context: Title: Robert Bache Smith
  Passage: Robert Bache Smith ( June 4, 1875 – November 6, 1951 ), usually published as Robert B. Smith, was an American librettist and lyricist.  His older brother, Harry B. Smith, was also a successful lyricist and a writer and composer.
  Title: Being Alive
  Passage: "Being Alive" is a song from the musical "Company" by George Furth with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.  The song appears at the end of Act II and is sung by the main character, Robert, a 35-year-old bachelor who at the show's end “. . . realizes being a lone wolf isn't all it's cracked up to be . . . he declares that he wants to take the chance, be afraid, get his heart broken - or whatever happens when you decide to love and be loved."
  Title: George Furth
  Passage: George Furth (December 14, 1932 – August 11, 2008) was an American librettist, playwright, and actor.
  Title: Dorothy Fields
  Passage: Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist.  She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films.  Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight", "A Fine Romance", "On the Sunny Side of the Street", "Don't Blame Me", "Pick Yourself Up", "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "You Couldn't Be Cuter" Throughout her career, she collaborated with various influential figures in the American musical theater, including Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, and Jimmy McHugh.  Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters.
  Title: Verna Arvey
  Passage: Verna Arvey (February 16, 1910 – November 22, 1987) was an American librettist, pianist and writer who is best known for her musical collaborations with her husband William Grant Still, a musician and composer.
  Title: Pearl G. Curran
  Passage: Pearl Gildersleeve Curran (Denver, Colorado, June 25, 1875 – New Rochelle, New York, April 16, 1941) was an American librettist and composer of art songs and works for chorus.
  Title: Oscar Hammerstein II
  Passage: Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.  Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song.  Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians.  He co-wrote 850 songs.  Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music.  Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma! ", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".
  Title: Michael Korie
  Passage: Michael Korie is an American librettist and lyricist whose writing for musical theater and opera includes the musicals "Grey Gardens" and "Far From Heaven", and the operas "Harvey Milk" and "The Grapes of Wrath".  His works have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and internationally.  His lyrics have been nominated for the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award, and won the Outer Critics Circle Award.  In 2016, Korie was awarded the Marc Blitzstein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
  Title: Eiji Tsuburaya
  Passage: Eiji Tsuburaya (円谷 英二 , Tsuburaya Eiji ) (Eiichi Tsumuraya (圓谷 英一 , Tsumuraya Eiichi ) ; July 10, 1901 – January 25, 1970, in Sukagawa, Fukushima) was a Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction films and television series, being one of the co-creators of the "Godzilla" series, as well as the main creator of the "Ultra Series".  During his rise to post-war fame in the wake of "Godzilla" (1954), many press accounts gave Tsuburaya's birthdate as July 7, which falls on the high day of the star festival, "Tanabata", a sign of good fortune.  This is akin to an American saying that they were born on the Fourth of July.  Tsuburaya's actual birthdate of July 10 has been verified by his last surviving son, Akira, and the company Eiji founded, Tsuburaya Productions, as the official entry in the Tsuburaya Family Register, in researching the official English-language biography on this important figure of cinema, "Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters", Chronicle Books, 2007.
  Title: Bill Russell (lyricist)
  Passage: Bill Russell (born 1949) is an American librettist and lyricist.  Among his stage musicals are "Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens" and "Side Show", which was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Musical.
citations: George Furth Being Alive