"Richard was very much about the enthusiasm of just getting things going. We just had fun," Leonard says of their creative process Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human ...

Those closest to Simmons say he was energized by a new project months before he died and had begun writing songs for a potential Broadway musical about his life alongside musician Patrick Leonard “He ...

Richard Simmons had his hometown “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” one last time Saturday. Following a memorial mass at St. Louis Cathedral, family members, friends and fans of the New Orleans-born pop culture ...

The fitness star worked alongside musician Patrick Leonard to start creating a potential Broadway Musical about his life "Richard was very much about the enthusiasm of just getting things going. We ...