Lyric Theatre In Downtown Stuart

Monday, December 10, 2007 at 6:00 pm & 8:30 pmThursday, December 13, 2007 at 6:00 and  8:30 pm

STUART, FL-Marvin Hamlisch is coming to the historic Lyric Theatre December 10th.  Tickets are $60/$55. 

Marvin Hamlisch is one singular sensation — and one heck of a multi-tasker. A composer and pianist who’s won the Pulitzer (for “A Chorus Line”), several Oscars (for “The Sting” and “The Way We Were”) and countless Tony and Emmy Awards for his stage and TV work, Hamlisch is a renaissance man for whom music — and its various permutations and incarnations — is as important to daily health as his morning bowl of fiber-friendly cereal.
   
His most famous songs — “One,” “The Way We Were,” “They’re Playing Our Song,” “Nobody Does it Better” — show a sensitive feel for both astute musical form and the human condition. But
Hamlisch, in recent years, has followed the path forged by his friend John Williams, and is now a principal conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops, the San Diego Symphony and Washington’s National Pops Orchestra.

“It’s an orchestra, a symphony orchestra,”

Hamlisch recently told CNN, “the same huge,
wonderful orchestra that plays Beethoven and Bach, and then on certain days plays the popular music, meaning whether it’s Gershwin, whether it’s Irving Berlin. It’s light classics, let’s call it.”

Born in New York City, at age 6 Hamlisch became the youngest musician ever admitted to the prestigious Juilliard School of Music. His first serious job was as Barbra Streisand’s rehearsal
pianist for the Broadway run of “Funny Girl”; his first recorded composition was “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” by Lesley Gore.

“I grew up on melodies,” Hamlisch said. “You know, my father was from Vienna, the home of the great melodies. I grew up and tried to write, all the time, a good melody. I find melodies very scarce these days.

“I’m not sure, in the time capsule, what is actually going to be kept. You know, we’ve got some wonderful performers in this world, we really do. I just wish sometimes the songs were better.”
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