RIP to Marvin Laird, RUTHLESS! composer and longtime music director for Bernadette Peters
RIP to Marvin Laird, RUTHLESS! composer and longtime music director for Bernadette Peters
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#1RIP to Marvin Laird, RUTHLESS! composer and longtime music director for Bernadette Peters
Posted: 12/4/24 at 4:20pm
In addition to composing RUTHLESS! (written with his husband, Joel Paley), his credits include dance arrangements for GEORGY, THE HAPPY TIME, and the film of HELLO DOLLY, music direction & dance arrangements for Bernadette’s revivals of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN and GYPSY, and a few shows that didn’t last more than 2 performances (OH BROTHER, BROADWAY FOLLIES, ONE NIGHT STAND, and the infamous BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’s). He also music-directed for Cher, Liza, Shirley MacLaine, and other great divas, in addition to his decades-long work with Peters.
More recently, he was an associate conductor/keyboardist on Bernadette’s engagements in DOLLY and GYPSY.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-and-Film-Composer-and-Conductor-Marvin-Laird-Passes-Away-at-85-20241204
#2RIP to Marvin Laird, RUTHLESS! composer and longtime music director for Bernadette Peters
Posted: 12/5/24 at 9:45am
RIP! If I recall he met Bernadette while she was an understudy in the 2nd National tour of Gypsy. I have always enjoyed the pair on stage and I wondered recently why he hadn’t been at some of Bernadette’s major events.
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
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