R.I.P Marvin Hamlisch

[Wynbish]

This is the only website I can find reporting it, so maybe it's false information.

Composer of "A Chorus Line" and one of the great EGOT's. Sad to see him go.
Play the great big piano in the sky!

[best12bars]

Oh, wow.

[Wynbish]

The Associated Press has reported it via Twitter, but I'm slightly still in denial.

[Brian07663NJ]

shocked! Very sad news. I hear in my head Lisa Loopner (the great Gilda Radner) singing The Way We Were while playing the piano and breaking into a sob.

[Wynbish]

He won three Academy Awards in one night at the 1973 awards between his work on The Sting and The Way We Were.




Wall Street Journal now reporting it.

[mominator]

Wow sad and shocking news. Peace and comfort to his family.

[castlestreet]

I just got the breaking news alert from the AP on my phone- wow, this is just such sad news... RIP and thank you for the music!

[castlestreet]

Playbill now reporting:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/168832-Tony-Award-Winning-Composer-Marvin-Hamlisch-Dies-at-68

[iluvtheatertrash]

So very, very sad.... Rest in Peace.

[NYadgal]

Shocked. And very, very sad.

RIP, Mr. Hamlisch and thank you for your incredible music.

[Gothampc]

"Composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch, best known for the torch song "The Way We Were," died Monday. He was 68 years old."

I would beg to differ. I think in the 1970s, "What I Did For Love" was just as well known as TWWW.

The Hamlisch music was such a part of the 1970s. His music was all over the variety shows of that time and really was part of the soundtrack of growing up.

Also we should mention that he was an EGOT.

[WhizzerMarvin TrinaJasonMendel]

Wasn't Hamlisch working on one of the shows aiming for Broadway this spring? I'm really surprised and saddened.

He gave us one of the greatest scores ever written.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Yeah, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR, with Rupert Holmes.

[E.Davis]

What truly sad news to wake up to. I did not even know he had been sick.

[themysteriousgrowl]

This E-mail from a friend of mine --

"I heard he left mid-way through the last Pittsburgh Pops concert saying he wasn't feeling well and went to the hospital. I think they just said it was the flu. That wasn't all too long ago."

[showchoirguy]

This hit me so hard. I am in complete shock Marvin was a great man who constructed a score that brings so much joy into my heart. Rest In Peace Marvin.

[Jon]

As Goth said, he really was EVERYWHERE in the mid-to-late 1970's. A fixture of talk shows, variety shows, etc.

[jacobsnchz14]

RIP Marvin Hamlisch...

[Wynbish]

I finally got around to watching Every Little Step last year, and it was so good to see him talking about his memories and input with the show.

[followspot]

Re: EGOT. Hamlisch was actually one of only two PEGOTs — Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. (Richard Rodgers was the other.)

[Deena Jones]

Kiss Today Goodbye

[once a month]

Very very sad. Gone now are Jimmy Kirkwood, Joe Papp, Nickolas Dante, Michael Bennett and now Marvin. Truly is the passing of a theatrical era.

[tazber]

I'm speechless. A Chorus Line was one of the first cast albums that got me into musical theater. And while some of his shows weren't hits, the scores were always fantastic.

He is one of those people who impacted my life on a very personal level.

This one hits me at my very core.

Totally shocked and deeply saddened.

[NYadgal]

I feel that way, too, Taz.

I feel as if I lost a friend...
Really heartbroken.

[WhizzerMarvin TrinaJasonMendel]

I really hope "The Nutty Professor" comes in now and he can have one more Broadway credit to his name.

I LOVE the OBCR of "The Goodbye Girl" (never saw the show live), and "The Sweet Smell of Success" and "Smile" have wonderful scores, even if the shows didn't run that long.

I also never realized he did the dance arrangements for "Golden Rainbow" and "Henry, Sweet Henry!" Truly he brought so much joy into the world with his music, and he'll have that legacy 100 years from now.

[best12bars]

With Mark O'Donnell and Marvin Hamlisch ... will there be a third?

*shudders*