The ASCAP Foundation is honoring composer Marvin Hamlisch with the Richard Rodgers Award during its 11th Annual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Marvin Hamlisch’s award-winning musical career is marked both by diversity and substance. The recipient of three Academy Awards, a Tony, four Emmys, four Grammys and the Pulitzer Prize, Hamlisch has excelled in musical theatre, film and television music and writing for the Pop music charts. New York City native Hamlisch wrote the Academy Award-winning score for The Way We Were, and with lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman, wrote the film’s Oscar winning title song. His third Academy Award was for his adaptation of Scott Joplin Ragtime music for the score of The Sting. Hamlisch’s performance of Joplin’s “The Entertainer” from the soundtrack topped the charts. Hamlisch’s Broadway musicals include They’re Playing Our Song (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager) and A Chorus Line (co-written with Ed Kleban) - the Tony-winning A Chorus Line also was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The show’s original run, from 1975 - 1990, lasted nearly 15 years and over 6000 performances. Last month, A Chorus Line returned to Broadway in a new production.
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