Broadway and West End star Marin Mazzie dies
Actress and soprano Marin Mazzie, a three-time Tony Award nominee known
for powerhouse Broadway performances in “Ragtime,” ”Passion” and “Kiss
Me, Kate,” has died following a three-year battle with ovarian cancer.
She was 57.
Mazzie died Thursday at her Manhattan home surrounded by close friends
and family, said her husband, actor Jason Danieley. Her death was
confirmed by her publicist, Kim Correro.
Tributes came from all across Broadway, including Harvey Fierstein, who
wrote “Beautiful, brave and inspiring. A glorious voice and an even
better human being” and Michael Urie, who called Mazzie “luminous.”
Mazzie’s broad career went from screwball comedy — in “Kiss Me, Kate”
and “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on Broadway and the West End — to
riveting, dysfunctional moms in “Next to Normal” and “Carrie.” She
earned other Broadway roles in “Man of La Mancha,” ”Bullets Over
Broadway,” ”Enron” and “Into the Woods.”
She found out about her cancer diagnosis on the opening day of a concert
production of “Zorba!” in May 2015 and refused to pull out. In one
song, she sang: “Life is what you do while you’re waiting to die.”
Mazzie later underwent a hysterectomy, a bowel resection because the
cancer had spread and weeks of chemotherapy. She returned to Broadway a
year later, replacing Kelli O’Hara in “The King and I.”
“It’s very emotional for me,” she told The Associated Press in 2016.
“I’m so anxious and excited and thrilled to be able to bring, in
essence, a new me back to the stage with what’s gone on in my life.”
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