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10.Whoopi Goldberg

Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.

In 2002, Whoopi Goldberg became the tenth person to win all four awards, the first African American, and the first to win two of their awards in the same year.

Goldberg began her career on stage in 1983 with her one-woman show, Spook Show, which transferred to Broadway under the title Whoopi Goldberg, running from 1984 to 1985. She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of the show. Her film breakthrough came in 1985 with her role as Celie, a mistreated woman in the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg's period drama film The Color Purple, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. For her role as an eccentric psychic in the romantic fantasy film Ghost (1990), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a second Golden Globe Award. She starred in the comedy Sister Act (1992) and its sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), becoming the highest-paid actress at the time. She also acted in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Clara's Heart (1988), Soapdish (1991), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), and Till (2022). She also voiced roles in The Lion King (1994) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

On stage, Goldberg has starred in the Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Tony Award as a producer of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. In 2011 she received her third Tony Award nomination for the stage adaptation of Sister Act (2011). On television, Goldberg portrayed Guinan in the science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988–1993), and Star Trek: Picard (2022). Since 2007, she has co-hosted and moderated the daytime talk show The View, for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony four times.

Fun Fact-Whoopi announced on The View Spring 2025 that they finished the script for “Sister Act 3.” I can’t wait to see Sister Mary Clarence again!

1991 Academy Award-Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Ghost

2002 Daytime Emmy Award-Outstanding Special Class Special – Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel
2009 Daytime Emmy Award-Outstanding Talk Show Host – The View

1986 Grammy Award-Best Comedy Recording – Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording

2002 Tony Award-Best Musical – Thoroughly Modern Millie

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1. Read a book that has a Ghost or a Psychic in it.
2.Read a book that has a book cover that is Purple (at least 50%)
3.Read a book that has an author who uses a pen name.

So sorry for the error, not sure where my head is this week (Month, year etc. ) I'll repost Jonathan Tunick for you to make it easier.

7. Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021.

Tunick's principal instrument is the clarinet. Much of his work has arisen from his involvement in theatre, and he is associated especially with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim.

Tunick's band, "Broadway Moonlighters", played in 2008 with Barbara Cook as special guest, and played at Birdland jazz club in March 2012. He has also worked as an arranger and/or conductor on recordings with Judy Collins, Kiri Te Kanawa, Brian Asawa, Sir Neville Mariner, Itzhak Perlman, Plácido Domingo, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, and Bernadette Peters.

Jonathan Tunick (born 1938) received his fourth distinct award in 1997. Between 1977 and 2024, Tunick received a total of five awards. Tunick is the first EGOT winner to have won an Emmy as their second award as well as the first to win the Tony as their fourth award.

1978 Academy Award Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score – A Little Night Music.
1982 Primetime Emmy Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction – Night of 100 Stars
1989 Grammy Award Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "No One is Alone"
1997 Tony Award Best Orchestrations – Titanic
2024 Tony Award Best Orchestrations – Merrily We Roll Along

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that was written by two authors
2.Read a book that has both of the author’s initials found in the words “Broadway Moonlighters”
3.Read a book that has a series name that can be found in the word “Clarinet”

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6. Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. Hamlisch was born in Manhattan to Viennese-born Jewish parents Lilly (née Schachter) and Max Hamlisch. His father was an accordionist and bandleader. Hamlisch was a child prodigy; by age five, he began mimicking the piano music he heard on the radio. A few months before he turned seven, in 1951, he was accepted into what is now the Juilliard School Pre-College Division.

Hamlisch attended Queens College, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. His first job was as a rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand. Even on tour he would take time to book Kenny Veenstra's Progressive Music Studio to send musical ideas back to "Babs" in New York. Shortly afterward, producer Sam Spiegel hired him to play piano at parties.

His first film score was for 1968's The Swimmer. He also wrote music for several early Woody Allen films, including Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971). Hamlisch and Liebling co-wrote the song "California Nights", which was recorded by Lesley Gore for her 1967 hit album of the same name. The Bob Crewe-produced single peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100 in March 1967, two months after Gore had performed the song on the Batman television series, in which she guest-starred as an accomplice to Julie Newmar's Catwoman. Among Hamlisch's better-known works during the 1970s were adaptations of Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the film The Sting, including its theme song, "The Entertainer". It hit No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart and No. 3 on the Hot 100, selling nearly 2 million copies in the U.S. alone. He had great success in 1973, winning two Academy Awards for the title song and the score for the motion picture The Way We Were and an Academy Award for the adaptation score for The Sting. He won four Grammy Awards in 1974, two for "The Way We Were". In 1975, he wrote the original theme music for Good Morning America; the show used it for 12 years. He co-wrote "Nobody Does It Better" for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) with his then-girlfriend Carole Bayer Sager, which would be nominated for an Oscar.[6] In the 1980s, he had success with the scores for Ordinary People (1980) and Sophie's Choice (1982). He also received an Academy Award nomination in 1986 for the film version of A Chorus Line.

Hamlisch's first major stage work was in 1972 playing piano for Groucho Marx at Carnegie Hall for An Evening with Groucho. Hamlisch acted as both straight man and accompanist while Marx, at age 81, reminisced about his career in show business.The performances were released as a two-record set, and remained very popular. He then composed the scores for the 1975 Broadway musical A Chorus Line, for which he won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize; and for the 1978 musical They're Playing Our Song, loosely based on his relationship with Carole Bayer Sager. At the beginning of the 1980s, his romantic relationship with Bayer Sager ended, but their songwriting relationship continued. The 1983 musical Jean Seberg, based on the life of the real-life actress, failed in its London production at the UK's National Theatre and never played in the U.S. In 1986, Smile was a mixed success and had a short run on Broadway. The musical version of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1993) closed after only 188 performances, although he received a Drama Desk nomination, for Outstanding Music.
Shortly before his death, Hamlisch finished scoring a musical theatre version of The Nutty Professor, based on the 1963 film. The show played in July and August 2012, at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in Nashville, aiming for a Broadway run. The book is by Rupert Holmes, and the production was directed by Jerry Lewis.

1974 Academy Awards Best Original Dramatic Score – The Way We Were
1974 Academy Awards Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation – The Sting
1974 Academy Awards Best Song – "The Way We Were"
1995 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction – Barbra: The Concert
1995 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics – "Ordinary Miracles"
1991 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Music and Lyrics – "A Ticket to Dream"
2001 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Music Direction – Timeless: Live in Concert
1975 Grammy Awards Best New Artist
1975 Grammy Awards Song of the Year – "The Way We Were"
1975 Grammy Awards Best Pop Instrumental Performance – "The Entertainer"
1975 Grammy Awards Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special – The Way We Were: Original Soundtrack Recording
1976 Tony Award Best Musical Score – A Chorus Line

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1. Read a book from the list Music Biographies. (Must have at least 3 votes. Please include the number the book is on the list.)

2.Read a book that has been tagged “Music” at least 5 times
3.Read a book that has the word “Piano” in the text (please state page/location number and short passage) or has a piano on the cover of the book (Most post book cover on the completion)

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2. Helen Hayes

2.Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress. Often referred to as the "First Lady of American Theatre", she was the second person and first woman to win the EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award), and the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting. Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Ronald Reagan in 1986. In 1988, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

The annual Helen Hayes Awards, which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington, D.C., since 1984, are her namesake. In 1955, the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City's Theatre District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre. When that venue was demolished in 1982, the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor. Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the greatest leading ladies of the 20th-century theatre. Her career spanned 82 years.

A leading philanthropist in later decades, Hayes was most proud of her 49-year association with the Helen Hayes Hospital, a non-profit rehabilitative center overlooking the Hudson River in West Haverstraw, NY.

Her awards:

Academy Awards:

1932: Best Actress in a Leading Role – The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1971: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Airport

Primetime Emmy Awards
1953: Best Actress – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (Episode: "Not a Chance")

Grammy Awards:

1977: Best Spoken Word Recording – Great American Documents

Tony Awards:

1947: Best Actress in a Play – Happy Birthday
1958 Best Leading Actress in a Play – Time Remembered

Special Awards:

1980: Special Tony Award, Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has a scene in a hospital (Please give details about the scene)
2.Read a book that has the numbers “8” and “2” in the publication Date
3.Read a book that has a series name that begins with a letter in the word “philanthropist.”

Excellent! You have earned the John Gielgud Button!

5. Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema, inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List, and is one of a few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards.

Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent from 1936 to 1939. Hepburn returned to the Netherlands with the Second World War's outbreak. She studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory during the war. By 1944, Hepburn was performing ballet to raise money to support the resistance. She studied with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam from 1945 to 1948 and then with Marie Rambert in London.

Hepburn began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. The same year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden; Funny Face (1957), a musical in which she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964).

In 1967, Hepburn starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. After that role, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in Always (1989), an American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.
Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia.

Audrey Hepburn received her fourth distinct award posthumously in 1994. Between 1954 and 1994, Hepburn received a total of four competitive awards. She was the fifth person to complete the feat and the first to do so posthumously. She was also the first winner to win two of their awards in consecutive awards shows (the 1994 Grammys were the first Grammys since her posthumous win at the 1993 Emmys). She is the only EGOT winner to not win multiple awards in any of the four award fields.

1954: Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role – Roman Holiday

1993: Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (Episode: "Flower Gardens")
1994: Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album for Children – Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
1954: Tony Award Distinguished Dramatic Actress – Ondine

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has a cover model that you think is dressed elegantly. (Must post picture of the cover)
2.Read a book that has an MPG of Historical Fiction
3.Read a book where both of the author’s initials can be found in the words “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

Hey You Guys! You have earned the Rita Moreno Button!

4. John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud April 14, 1904 – May 21, 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.

During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Queen's Theatre, London. He was regarded by many as the finest Hamlet of his era, and was also known for high comedy roles such as John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest.

John Gielgud received his fourth distinct award in 1991. Between 1948 and 1991, Gielgud received a total of five competitive awards. Gielgud was the first winner to win any award other than the Oscar as their first award (his first award was a Tony). At age 87 when he won his Emmy, he also became the oldest winner, the first male performer, the first LGBTQ winner, and the first non-American.

1982: Academy Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role “Arthur”
1991: Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special “Summer's Lease”
1980: Grammy Award Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording “Ages of Man”
1948: Tony Award Outstanding Foreign Company “The Importance of Being Earnest”
1961: Tony Award Best Director of a Drama “Big Fish, Little Fish”

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has an LGBTQ MPG
2.Read a book that has a character named “John” or “Arthur” (variations are accepted)
3.Read a book that has the word “Director” in the text (Please state Page/Location number and short passage)

My apologies

Hey You Guys! You have earned the Rita Moreno Button!

4. John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud April 14, 1904 – May 21, 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century.

During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Queen's Theatre, London. He was regarded by many as the finest Hamlet of his era, and was also known for high comedy roles such as John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest.

John Gielgud received his fourth distinct award in 1991. Between 1948 and 1991, Gielgud received a total of five competitive awards. Gielgud was the first winner to win any award other than the Oscar as their first award (his first award was a Tony). At age 87 when he won his Emmy, he also became the oldest winner, the first male performer, the first LGBTQ winner, and the first non-American.

1982: Academy Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role “Arthur”
1991: Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special “Summer's Lease”
1980: Grammy Award Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording “Ages of Man”
1948: Tony Award Outstanding Foreign Company “The Importance of Being Earnest”
1961: Tony Award Best Director of a Drama “Big Fish, Little Fish”

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has an LGBTQ MPG
2.Read a book that has a character named “John” or “Arthur” (variations are accepted)
3.Read a book that has the word “Director” in the text (Please state Page/Location number and short passage)

Excellent! You have earned the John Gielgud Button!

5. Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema, inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List, and is one of a few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards.

Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent from 1936 to 1939. Hepburn returned to the Netherlands with the Second World War's outbreak. She studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory during the war. By 1944, Hepburn was performing ballet to raise money to support the resistance. She studied with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam from 1945 to 1948 and then with Marie Rambert in London.

Hepburn began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. The same year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden; Funny Face (1957), a musical in which she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964).

In 1967, Hepburn starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. After that role, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in Always (1989), an American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.
Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia.

Audrey Hepburn received her fourth distinct award posthumously in 1994. Between 1954 and 1994, Hepburn received a total of four competitive awards. She was the fifth person to complete the feat and the first to do so posthumously. She was also the first winner to win two of their awards in consecutive awards shows (the 1994 Grammys were the first Grammys since her posthumous win at the 1993 Emmys). She is the only EGOT winner to not win multiple awards in any of the four award fields.

1954: Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role – Roman Holiday

1993: Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (Episode: "Flower Gardens")
1994: Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album for Children – Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
1954: Tony Award Distinguished Dramatic Actress – Ondine

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has a cover model that you think is dressed elegantly. (Must post picture of the cover)
2.Read a book that has an MPG of Historical Fiction
3.Read a book where both of the author’s initials can be found in the words “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

Excellent! You have earned the John Gielgud Button!

5. Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; May 4, 1929 – January 20, 1993) was a British actress. Recognised as a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema, inducted into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List, and is one of a few entertainers who have won competitive Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards.

Born into an aristocratic family in Ixelles, Brussels, Hepburn spent parts of her childhood in Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. She attended boarding school in Kent from 1936 to 1939. Hepburn returned to the Netherlands with the Second World War's outbreak. She studied ballet at the Arnhem Conservatory during the war. By 1944, Hepburn was performing ballet to raise money to support the resistance. She studied with Sonia Gaskell in Amsterdam from 1945 to 1948 and then with Marie Rambert in London.

Hepburn began performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions and then had minor appearances in several films. She rose to stardom in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) alongside Gregory Peck, for which she became the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. The same year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden; Funny Face (1957), a musical in which she sang her own parts; the drama The Nun's Story (1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961); the thriller-romance Charade (1963), opposite Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady (1964).

In 1967, Hepburn starred in the thriller Wait Until Dark, receiving Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. After that role, she only occasionally appeared in films, one being Robin and Marian (1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in Always (1989), an American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, and the 1990 documentary television series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming.
Later in life, Hepburn devoted much of her time to UNICEF, to which she had contributed since 1954. Between 1988 and 1992, she worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia.

Audrey Hepburn received her fourth distinct award posthumously in 1994. Between 1954 and 1994, Hepburn received a total of four competitive awards. She was the fifth person to complete the feat and the first to do so posthumously. She was also the first winner to win two of their awards in consecutive awards shows (the 1994 Grammys were the first Grammys since her posthumous win at the 1993 Emmys). She is the only EGOT winner to not win multiple awards in any of the four award fields.

1954: Academy Award Best Actress in a Leading Role – Roman Holiday

1993: Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (Episode: "Flower Gardens")
1994: Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album for Children – Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
1954: Tony Award Distinguished Dramatic Actress – Ondine

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that has a cover model that you think is dressed elegantly. (Must post picture of the cover)
2.Read a book that has an MPG of Historical Fiction
3.Read a book where both of the author’s initials can be found in the words “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

One Singular Sensation! You have earned the Marvin Hamlisch Button!

7. Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021.

Tunick's principal instrument is the clarinet. Much of his work has arisen from his involvement in theatre, and he is associated especially with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim.

Tunick's band, "Broadway Moonlighters", played in 2008 with Barbara Cook as special guest, and played at Birdland jazz club in March 2012. He has also worked as an arranger and/or conductor on recordings with Judy Collins, Kiri Te Kanawa, Brian Asawa, Sir Neville Mariner, Itzhak Perlman, Plácido Domingo, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, and Bernadette Peters.

Jonathan Tunick (born 1938) received his fourth distinct award in 1997. Between 1977 and 2024, Tunick received a total of five awards. Tunick is the first EGOT winner to have won an Emmy as their second award as well as the first to win the Tony as their fourth award.

1978 Academy Award Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score – A Little Night Music.
1982 Primetime Emmy Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction – Night of 100 Stars
1989 Grammy Award Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "No One is Alone"
1997 Tony Award Best Orchestrations – Titanic
2024 Tony Award Best Orchestrations – Merrily We Roll Along

Please complete ONE of the following tasks:

1.Read a book that was written by two authors
2.Read a book that has both of the author’s initials found in the words “Broadway Moonlighters”
3.Read a book that has a series name that can be found in the word “Clarinet”

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