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| Multi-award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman passes away at age 93 | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 01:32 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:14 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Marilyn and Alan Bergman, 16-time Oscar nominees, won the Academy Award for their lyrics to ''The Windmills of Your Mind'' (from ''The Thomas Crown Affair''), ''The Way We Were'' (from ''The Way We Were'') and the original song score to ''Yentl.'' Their other Oscar-nominated songs include ''It Might Be You'' (from ''Tootsie''), ''How Do You Keep the Music Playing?'' (from ''Best Friends''), ''I'll Never Say Goodbye'' (from ''The Promise''), ''The Way He Makes Me Feel' and ''Papa, Can You Hear Me?'' (from ''Yentl'') and ''What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?'' from ''The Happy Ending.'' The Bergmans and Billy Goldenberg wrote the score to ''Ballroom,'' a 1979 Best Musical nominee that included their classic song ''50 Percent.'' Marilyn Bergman is survived by her husband, Alan Bergman, and their daughter, Julie Bergman. |
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| Link | Deadline.com: Marilyn Bergman Dies: Multiple Oscar, Grammy & Emmy Winner Was 93 |
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| re: Multi-award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman passes away at age 93 | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 09:47 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
| In reply to: Multi-award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman passes away at age 93 - WaymanWong 01:14 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
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| At the 20th anniversary SWEENEY TODD in LA, she was sitting in my row with Angela Lansbury, and I was too awe-struck of both to say anything to them at intermission. But they were both clearly loving the show. (I kept peeking at them.) Laura |
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| re: Multi-award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman passes away at age 93 | |
| Posted by: mikem 02:54 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| The Bergmans' work is very commercial, but I think they had some really wonderful lyrics. I particularly enjoy the opening couplet of The Way We Were, for example. | |
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| re: Multi-award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman passes away at age 93 | |
| Posted by: monty4rudy 02:32 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
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| So sad to hear. I’ve always had a soft spot for Ballroom, and while Fifty Percent always gets the spotlight, A Terrific Band and a Real Nice Crowd is my all-time favorite showtune. Thanks forever, and condolences to Alan. If the neighbors don’t know the song by now, they soon will. | |
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| re: Multi-award-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman passes away at age 93 | |
| Posted by: mlop 02:25 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Very sad news. This adds to the people I have in the past month. First my heart goes out to her husband Alan and her daughter. I worked with the Bergmans several times at Lyrics And Lyricists. They were two of the nicest people to work with. At one of the shows the interviews were done like a tea time and I made the tea and set it before the show. She called me the tea lady. Everytime I would see them do something Alan would come to me after and ask if he did okay. Many years back. They did a gig at The Algonquin and their guest star was Karen Mason. I was helping Karen by selling her CDs after the show and they would leave me the key to their room to get the CDs. They gave Karen full use of their room to relax get dressed etc. She now joins Billy Goldenberg up in heaven whom we lost over a year and a half ago. RIP Marilyn. RIP Marilyn. |
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| And "Something More!" | |
| Posted by: TimDunleavy 02:14 pm EST 01/08/22 | |
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| Although best known for their movie and television work, the Bergmans did try writing for the Broadway stage, although they did not have much success. “Something More!,” starring Barbara Cook and Arthur Hill, for which they wrote the lyrics and Sammy Fain wrote the music, lasted less than two weeks in 1964. They fared better, but not by much, in 1978 with “Ballroom,” an adaptation of the 1975 TV movie “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” with music by Billy Goldenberg. Despite being produced and directed by Michael Bennett, whose previous Broadway show had been the monster hit “A Chorus Line,” “Ballroom” closed after three months. “Our experiences in the theater and film,” Ms. Bergman told The New York Times in 1982, “have shown us that the two require entirely different kinds of writing.” And movies were always the couple’s first love. “We found we must be more abstract when writing for film,” she said, “because film really speaks more to the preconscious part of the brain, the part of us that dreams.” |
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| Link | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/08/arts/music/marilyn-bergman-dead.html |
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