His father, Harry Marcuse, was a psychiatrist and a musical prodigy, and his mother, Mimi (née Heller), a chess champion.
After graduating in 1942, he served in the United States Army's special service band during World War II.
[2][4] Hague's Broadway musicals include Plain and Fancy (1955),[5] Redhead (1959),[6] Cafe Crown (1964),[7] and The Fig Leaves Are Falling (1969, with lyrics by Allan Sherman).
[10] Hague also played a small role in the movie Space Jam (1996), as the psychiatrist that the professional basketball players go to when they lose their "skill".
Albert Hague died at age 81 from cancer[16] at a hospital in Marina del Rey, California in November 2001.