Marvin Hamlisch News

There also were turbans and bindis and diamonds aplenty, as several hundred guests put on the glitz and joined a celebration in honor of .

And his music for "The Informant" is possibly the most eyebrow-raising score of the year.

The Kennedy Center's Broadway Up Close and Personal series will continue with an evening devoted to the work of Tony Award-winning composer Marvin Hamlisch.

The musical A Chorus Line was assembled out of hours of interviews collected by director/choreographer Michael Bennett in 1973.

With her husband Alan, Marilyn Bergman has written lyrics to some of the most memorable movie songs of the past four decades.

This Newman/Redford vehicle dominated the Oscars in 1974, but, looking at the film today, it hardly resembles a masterpiece.

French Golden Globe winner Alexandre Desplat was a double honoree at the ninth World Soundtrack Awards on Saturday as he was named film composer of the year and picked up the prize for score of the year for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Oscar winner A.R. Rahman accepted the award for best original song written for film for "Jai Ho," from ...

ArtReach Educational Theatre in partnership with Spotlite Theatrix Production Company is staging " A Chorus Line," book by James Kirkwood, Jr.

Fisher Auditorium was full of music Monday evening. The IUP Jazz Ensemble opened for Marvin Hamlisch, the Helwig Distinguished Artist for 2009-2010. The IUP Jazz Ensemble was directed by Kevin E. Eisensmith, and they warmed up the audience and welcomed Hamlisch onstage.

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE: : Teri Swimmer, left, and Gloria Sheline, right, have the pleasure of the company of honorees Janet Mohrmann and Alan Brass at the Dinner of Champions for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Although best known as a showcase for film music, usually concentrated during the final week of its program, the Ghent Intl.

In Steven Soderbergh's new offbeat film "The Informant!", a rather incongruously sappy and dramatic piece of music plays during the opening credits while images of tape recorders, notebooks and assorted surveillance equipment appear on screen.

Supplied photo When singular sensation A Chorus Line was remounted in 2006, 3,000 hopeful hoofers auditioned.

"One Singular Sensation," a benefit for the historic Valentine Theatre, 419 Adams St., will bring world-renowned pianist/composer/conductor Marvin Hamlisch back to Toledo for a 7 p.m. performance Oct.

Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant!" opens with a jazzy musical piece by composer Marvin Hamlisch , punctuated by his trademark jaunty piano flourishes, accompanied by bold, colorful, '70s-esque titles.

The Jazz Ambassadors presets a diverse program of big band swing, Latin music, contemporary jazz, popular tunes, standards, Dixieland, and patriotic selections.

When theater fans think of "A Chorus Line," Michael Bennett, the director-choreographer who conceived the show, comes to mind.

The joke is that they aren't sleek masters of the universe but complacent Midwestern schlubs with expanding waistlines.

Few directors can make films with the same geek joy - the same love of cinematic history - as Steven Soderbergh.