Marvin Laird Dies: Broadway, Film & Concert Musical Collaborator Of Bernadette Peters, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Bette Midler And Many More Was 85
deadline.comMarvin Laird, a prolific Broadway, film and TV composer, conductor and musical director who lent his talents to projects featuring such stars as Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Diana Ross, Cass Elliot, Dusty Springfield, Goldie Hawn, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and Robert DeNiro, died Monday, December 2, of natural causes.
He was 85. “My beloved Marvin had impeccable style, a delicious sense of humor, and his generous spirit made everyone he worked with fall in love with him,” said Peters in a statement to Deadline. “I was a major beneficiary of Marvin’s genius and generosity of support and love.” From Broadway, where he wrote dance arrangements for Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1966, conducted Gypsy in 2003 with Peters in the starring role, and played keyboards for the 2017 Hello, Dolly!
revival starring Midler, to television (composer for Dynasty, Quincy, M.E., and A Different Approach, among others), Laird was a busy musical collaborator from the 1960s through 2020, when he served as arranger, orchestrator, conductor and musical director for the TV special Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert.
Among his other Broadway credits are Annie Get Your Gun and Follies, and he conducted concerts for Peters, Grey, Ross, Elliot, Springfield and Hawn.
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