A Memory of Marvin Hamlisch
I had the great honor of meeting SuperGenius composer Marvin Hamlisch many years ago when I first left Nebraska and lived in Washington D.C. for awhile on my way to graduate school in New York City. I was stunned to learn Marvin died yesterday at the incredibly young age of 68.
In my January 11, 2010 United Stage article — A Final Walk with Jim Brady — I mentioned Marvin’s kindness to me as a young student of the theatre:
The Victory Awards were intended to honor achievements of the human spirit. The show was hosted by Frank Langella and Marvin Hamlisch was the musical director.
Frank did not speak to any of the workers on the show while Marvin Hamlisch struck up a conversation with me backstage — I was a new transplant from Nebraska to D.C. — and he told me we’d one day “write a musical together” because “that’s just how things happen.”
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