They touched us in so many ways … their talents, their deeds, their special gifts. Time for our look back at those who left us in the year gone by. With Lee Cowan, we say “Hail and Farewell”:
As Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters sang in “Sunday in the Park With George,” “Move On” – that’s something we’ve been trying to do all year, to move a little closer to normalcy. But we still ended the year with more COVID deaths than last year, and a whole new variant that’s threatening our holidays once again.
There were more school shootings, and a deadly line of tornadoes that cut a scar across the nation’s midsection in December – not exactly common. So much for normal.
Broadway, though, re-opened (cautiously), and with it a new revival of the groundbreaking musical “Company,” although still reeling from the loss of its creator, Stephen Sondheim.
From “Into the Woods” to “Follies” to “Sweeney Todd,” Sondheim was one of the most influential composer-lyricists Broadway has ever known. A standing ovation to him.
Cicely Tyson left us after decades of powerful performances that elevated the lives of Black Americans and their stories.
In 2013 Tyson told “Sunday Morning” correspondent Lee Cowan, “I wanted to address certain issues, and I chose to use my career as my platform.”
“And how did you go about doing that?” he asked.
“Just simply ruling out what I wouldn’t do.”
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