As a solo performer, he popularized the standards “Go Away Little Girl” and “I’ve Gotta Be Me.”
Steve Lawrence, a creamy-voiced pop crooner who popularized the standards “Go Away Little Girl” and “I’ve Gotta Be Me” and formed a crowd-pleasing act with his wife, Eydie Gormé, for more than five decades, died March 7 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 88.Often billed as “Steve and Eydie,” Mr. Lawrence and his wife were a ubiquitous presence on records, television variety shows and in nightclubs from Las Vegas to the Catskills. Mr.
Mr. Lawrence earned greater critical attention on Broadway with “What Makes Sammy Run?” , a musical adaptation by composer Ervin Drake of Budd Schulberg’s scathing novel about Hollywood and ambition. Reviewers lavished praise on Mr. Lawrence’s portrayal of the amoral power-seeker Sammy Glick. The performance brought him a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and a Tony Award nomination for best actor in a musical.
“That show was about the best basic training in the world,” Mr. Lawrence told the Los Angeles Times in 1996. “We were called upon on that show to do everything. I mean everything — sweep floors, do sketches, help write, help build the sets, move them around. There is no way you could do that today.”
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