65-Year-Old Tony Award-Winning Actor, Michael McGrath, Passes Away

Michael McGrath, a Broadway personality star that radiated in zany, feel-good musicals and also won a Tony Award for Nice Work If You Can Get It, has actually passed away. He was 65.

McGrath passed away Thursday (Sept. 14) at his residence in Bloomfield, New Jersey, claimed his press agent, Lisa Goldberg. No various other information were revealed.

“Michael McGrath was as wonderful offstage as he was on,” composed Michael Urie in homage. “Adorable, mischievous, brilliant. His loss cuts deep, but I will continue to take everything he taught me wherever I go.”

McGrath remained in over a loads Broadway reveals consisting of Plaza Suite, She Loves Me, Tootsie and also Spamalot in addition to on tv as the partner to Martin Short on The Martin Short Show.

“Very saddened to hear that Michael McGrath our first and most beloved Patsy in Spamalot, has passed away,” composed Monty Python participant Eric Idle. “Warm hugs to all the Spamalot family and very happy memories of a lovely man.”

In 2012, McGrath won the Tony for ideal star in a highlighted music function playing sensible individual Cookie McGee in Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and also Kelli O’Hara.

He additionally played a hard-boiled radio terminal proprietor in Memphis and also revealed great vaudevillian chops in On the Twentieth Century vocal singing “Five Zeros,” an ode to the delights of cash.

In a 2007 evaluation of Follies at City Center, The Associated Press claimed McGrath “exhibits a pugnacious, good-time Charlie conviviality that additionally conceals instabilities. The star additionally relocates with the self-confidence of a birthed hoofer, especially in his ″’The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues.’″

He is endured by his partner of three decades, star Toni Di Buono and also a little girl, star Katie Claire McGrath.

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