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...between the two premier satirical sketch shows of the '70s and early '80s, SCTV and Saturday Night Live,, and he made the usual transition to less-inspired film roles. But it wasn't until he starred on Broadway in 1993's The Goodbye Girl, an underrated musical with Marvin Hamlisch's best post-Chorus Line score, that he showed how effortlessly his lithe, smallish body could take over a Broadway stage. There hasn't been much for him to do on Broadway since then - although he did cop a Tony for his tour-de-force performance in a revival...
...childhood flashbacks that force grown actresses to talk like widdle girls. The literary men in their lives (Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv) are trotted on and off the stage like stuffed dummies. There are actual stuffed dummies too--a cutesy stage device that wears thin quickly--and songs by Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia. The depths of pointlessness are reached in a vaudeville-style number featuring Frankie Fact and Dick Fiction, which tells us nothing about either. Hellman and McCarthy might yet agree on one thing: what this play needs is Roger Rewrite. --By Richard Zoglin
...Eliot R. Hamlisch ’04 plays intramural basketball, and in high school played tennis and golf, but plays no varsity or junior varsity sport at Harvard. “I got them from a 6’9’’ swimmer because they wouldn’t fit him,” Eliot explains. What makes DHAs so special? “They’re comfortable,” Eliot says. “It’s a free sweatshirt, and they’re good to wear to class. They make...
...course, Hamlisch is not all to blame for the weak songs; he is not benefited by the generally cliché-ridden and, often unintentionally laughable, lyrics supplied by Craig Carnelia. At one point, I swear I heard Kelli O’Hara’s Susan sing something that sounded like, “A couple of more breaks and he’ll be home / Combing his hair with my comb...
Music by Marvin Hamlisch...