Marvin Hamlisch is too ill with pneumonia to perform “Sock Hop Fifties” show Saturday night at Denver’s Boettcher Concert Hall.
“Under doctor’s orders Mr. Hamlisch has been instructed to remain at his home during his regimen of antibiotics,” the Colorado Symphony said in a statement this afternoon. “He is forbidden from any traveling or professional or social activities and must remain in bed for a minimum of seven to ten days.”
The show will go on with Colorado Symphony associate conductor Scott O’Neil, will lead the Colorado Symphony along with Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners.
Tickets are still available.
Hamlisch, 65, composed the scores to more than 40 movies. He has won three Academy Awards, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony, and three Golden Globe awards. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his show, “A Chorus Line,” in 1976. Hamlisch is the principal pops conductor of the National Symphony.
Ticketholders can contact the CSO box office information at 303-623-7876 or online at for more information.
