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Marvin Hamlisch surrounds himself with those who share the
same gut-wrenching love.
Marvin Hamlisch
In Tune Every Time
MICHAEL ELKIN
Special to The Jewish News
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>-
'm going to a con-
cert tonight," says
Bessie, a nicely
quaffed eldely woman, smoo-
thing out her nice new blue
dress.
"Nu, who you going to
see?" .
`.`Maven Hamisch."
puzzled,
friend,
Her
scratches her head. Maven
Hamisch?"
"Yes, Maven Hamisch,"
comes back a somewhat cross
answer. "Maven Hamisch,
Maven Hamisch, the music
writer."
The friend looks and looks
and looks and, suddenly, the
shock of recognition creeps
across her face. "Oh," she
says slowly but surely. "You
mean Marvin Hamlisch."
Bessie nods her head.
"That's what I said. He's a
maven and he's hamisch."
Who could argue with Be-
ssie? There's no denying her
point. The composer of such
movie hits as The Way We
Were, Ice Castles and The
Sting; Broadway's They're
Playing Our Song and A
Chorus Line; themes for. tele-
Good Morning
vision's
America, and Hour Magazine;
and ... well, as one of Ham-
iisch's other movie songs
goes, nobody does it better.
So, there's the maven part.
And, after nine Tony Awards,
a Pulitzer Prize, three Oscars
and four Grammy Awards,
well, Marvin Hamlisch is still
very hamisch. There is a nice
guy, let's-go-out-for-a-diet-
Coke-with-a-twist-of-lemon
feel about the guy. Just
watch him kibbitz as he im-
proves tunes based on ideas
suggested from the audience.
Waiting for the musical
muse to hit must be a lonely
experience. "You know, most
people assume that a com-
poser sits and waits to get in-
spired," muses Hamlisch.
"That's not my case. Really, I
only write on very special oc-
casions, when there's a rea-
son."
Success is reason enough.
Hamlisch is all smiles since
being notified that Smile, the
musical he started work on
seemingly eons ago, finally
has an opening date on
Broadway: Nov. 16 at the
Lunt-Fontanne after a pre-
Broadway premiere in Balti-
more on Oct. 2.
The show, based on the
1975 movie, Smile, about
beauty contest participants,
is, as he told a reporter re-
cently, "a funny show that
isn't condescending."
Hamlisch? Condescending?
The two words are incongru-
ous — just like Hamlisch and
out of tune.
"My father was a musician.
I guess it's in my genes," says
the 40-year-old native New
York Jewish music man
whose first hit came at the
age of 16 when he composed
Sunshine, Lollipops and
Rainbows for Lesley Gore.
Life has been sunshine, lol-
lipops and rainbows since. "I
never expected fame," he
says. "But I did hope to be
successful."
What I Did for Love became
Continued on Page 95
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