Ethan Shanfeld Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American Broadway actor who appeared in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures,” died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif.
on July 31. He was 89.Ing’s representatives said that the fully-vaccinated actor was diagnosed with pneumonia in mid-July and then contracted COVID-19 a few days later.
After battling the illness for two weeks, Ing died due to cardiac arrest.Born in Honolulu, Ing studied music at the University of Hawaii before moving to New York at age 25 to pursue an acting career.
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