Broadway Dims Lights for Larry Gelbart

Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Larry Gelbart passed away at his home in Los Angeles last Friday, Sept. 11, after succumbing to cancer at age 81, and this Tuesday the Broadway realm took a minute - literally - to honor the memory of the great Broadway star, dimming the marquees of Broadway theaters in New York at 8:00 p.m. for one minute in memory of Gelbart.

Larry Gelbart has had his work on Broadway stages for over four decades now, spearheading everything from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and City of Angels to Sly Fox and The Conquering Hero. Gelbart also had his hand in hit television shows, even garnering an Emmy Award for developing the mega-series M*A*S*H. Gelbart is also known for works such as Tootsie, Barbarians at the Gate, The Notorious Landlady, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Blame It on Rio, Movie Movie and Oh, God, among several others. Larry Gelbart is not a name that will soon be forgotten in the Broadway realm, and his memory will last long past the minute that Broadway marquees were dimmed for him earlier this week.

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Posted in General on September 17, 2009

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