Broadway to Honor Clive Barnes

Tonight, every Broadway theater will honor long-time critic Clive Barnes by dimming their marquees for one minute at 8 p.m.   Barnes passed away yesterday at the age of 81 and had been a fixture on the Broadway scene for more than four decades.  The dimming of the marquees will serve as a moment of silence of sorts, only a moment of darkness in this case.  “A true lover of the arts, Clive Barnes wrote his way into our hearts and popular culture,” said Charlotte St Martin, executive director of the Broadway League, the national trade organization for the Broadway industry. “The Broadway community will miss his great style and talent.”

Barnes was an appreciator of everything New York, but primarily the Broadway scene.  “If you dimmed the lights in a car,” a fellow critic once told Time magazine, “Clive would have tried to review it.”  A man known for his passion, Barnes sported a tireless work ethic.  It was not uncommon for the critic to write four reviews in a given day.  He was man that truly loved his craft and will certainly be missed by any fan of the arts.  Barnes had recently been diagnosed with liver cancer and passed away at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Get your Broadway tickets at StubHub.com.

Permalink - Posted in General on November 20, 2008 - Post a comment