He married Peggy Wright in 1942 and had two sons, John and Jeffrey.
Pacific Overtures, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's unconventional musical about the arrival of the black ships in Japan.
Byck is also one of the (failed) assassins portrayed in Stephen Sondheim's and John Weidman's 1991 musical Assassins.
He co-authored a new libretto for the musical with John Weidman that opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 19, 1987, and ran for 784 performances.
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