“EVERY KIND OF LIGHT: THE LOVE & LYRICS OF ALAN & MARILYN BERGMAN" AT 92NY
The lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, both born and raised in Brooklyn, worked as a team with many of the major composers of the 20th century during their sixty-three-year marriage and creative partnership. In 2022, Marilyn passed away at ninety-three and Alan died in 2025, less than a month before his one hundredth birthday. They wrote two Academy Award-winning Best Songs, “The Windmills of Your Mind (from 1969’s The Thomas Crown Affair), 1973’s title song from The Way We Were, as well as a Best Original Song Score Oscar for Yentl (1983). Overall, their voluminous film work brought them 16 nominations, though they only worked on Broadway twice with the musicals Something Moore! (1964/music by Sammy Fain), and 1978’s Ballroom (music by Billy Goldenberg). It’s wonderful to report that a treasure trove of thirty Bergman songs makes up a brand-new revue being presented this weekend at 92NY titled “Every Kind of Light,” part of its long-running Lyrics & Lyricists series, which first debuted in 1970.
