R.I.P. Jerry Herman (1 Viewer)

[David Weicker]

R.I.P. Jerry Herman

Musical creator of Hello Dolly, Mame, Mack&Mabel, and La Cage Aux Folles (among others)

https://my.xfinity.com/articles/news-entertainment/20191227/US--Obit-Jerry-Herman-fbaf
A talent that will be missed

 

[bujaki]

Dear World and Mack & Mabel are my favorites. Thanks, Mr. Herman. RIP.

 

[Jake Lipson]

This is terrible news.

I saw the national touring production of Hello Dolly! twice this year -- first with Betty Buckley and then again with Carolee Carmello who is doing it now. It is a perfect production of one of the all-time greatest musicals and certainly Mr. Herman's finest score

They should really film the tour before it closes up so that the world can have a permanent recording of how that show should be done. (Barbara Streisand being miscast in the film version ruins it.) They could film it and dedicate it to his memory.

May he rest in peace.

 

[Matt Hough]

He has certainly been a part of my musical heritage since I was old enough to go to musicals (and later to be in them). It has been hard today wrapping my head around the fact that he's no longer with us. R.I.P., Jerry.

 

[Bernard McNair]

A great musical talent; the man will be missed but his great music lives on forever. RIP and Thank you, Mr. Herman.

 

[Keith Cobby]

I am not a fan of musical theatre (i consider the peerless West Side Story to be opera), and drifted off to sleep during Phantom. But there is an exception and that is Mack and Mabel. Thanks Jerry.

 

[Garysb]

For those in the New York City area City Center's Encores is doing "Mack and Mabel" from February 19 to 23 , 2020.

https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2019-2020/mack-and-mabel/

 

[usrunnr]

I met him once, at a book signing and concert in Glendale, California. A delightful, witty, and genuinely warm person, whose music and lyrics will live on for a long long time. He was 88. Sondheim turns 90 in 2020. A concert version of "Sunday in the Park With George" will be held at Disney hall this March I believe.

 

[KPmusmag]

Michael Feinstein shared this lovely video. Fans of Jerry will be delighted to see this, and will not have a dry eye.

https://www.facebook.com/MichaelFei...u5O9IulkAWhwXXSth3UsYwBR7R3ywSWUsDU&__tn__=-R

 

[Matt Hough]

I've never seen Mack and Mabel on the stage, but reading the synopsis of its libretto, it would seem to be a downer for a Herman musical, and that may be why it has had such spotty success on stage. It might have made a better film, however, since we tend to accept unhappy endings in movies more than in stage musicals.