The film and the Broadway community has lost one of its most successful composer Marvin Hamlisch as strongly on Tuesday has died at 68 after a short unspecified illness.
Perhaps best known for his work in the beloved movie musical A Chorus Line and The Way We Were he and Sting, Hamlisch has also written scores for famous films such as the common people, and Sophie's decision to take the money and run and contribute to the James Bond hit the spy who loved me, co-authored Nobody Does It Better by Carole Bayer Sager.
For his efforts, Hamlisch has won entry into the elite club of artists who have received Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Awards. He has won four Emmy Awards and three Academy Awards, the third for his adaptation of Scott Joplin ragtime music is at the time.
His credits on Broadway, most of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning A Chorus Line, They're playing our song including, The Goodbye Girl and the sweet taste of success. The final show, although not a critical hit, it was cool to the musical star Kelli O'Hara in her first Broadway role.
Hamlisch was also a prolific arranger and conductor, symphony orchestras across the country. The youngest student accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, began studies there at the age of 7 years he started his career on Broadway as a pianist and vocal arranger assistant test for Funny Girl , starring Barbra Streisand, as would later write in The Way We Were.
His work on Broadway includes arrangements and orchestrations for Liza Liza Minnelli's triumphant return to the palace in 2008 and previous commitments Minnelli on Minnelli (1999) and Liza (1974). He also provided music for the 1984 Shirley MacLaine on Broadway special.
Hamlisch's adaptation of the new movie musical The crazy professor has made its world premiere in July at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The composer had been scheduled to fly to Nashville this week to see the Broadway production of wheels.
He was working on another musical, well, Gotta Dance, and wrote the soundtrack behind theCandleabra the forthcoming HBO film Liberace. And Hamlisch was to target New York Philharmonic concert on the eve of his next New Year.
While sweeping Hamlisch, shamelessly sentimental style does not always earn rave reviews, seemed satisfied with the popular appeal that much of his music remained for decades.
"I do not think there is nothing wrong in doing very wonderful, wonderful business, entertainment," he said in an interview Broadwayworld.com 2010. "There is nothing wrong with the" business "of the word."
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