Michael McGrath, a Broadway character actor who shined in zany, feel-good musicals and received a Tony Award for Good Work If You Can Get It, has died. He was 65.
McGrath died Thursday (Sept. 14) at his dwelling in Bloomfield, New Jersey, stated his publicist, Lisa Goldberg. No different particulars have been introduced.
“Michael McGrath was as great offstage as he was on,” wrote Michael Urie in tribute. “Lovely, mischievous, sensible. His loss cuts deep, however I’ll proceed to take every thing he taught me wherever I am going.”
McGrath was in over a dozen Broadway reveals together with Plaza Suite, She Loves Me, Tootsie and Spamalot in addition to on tv because the sidekick to Martin Quick on The Martin Quick Present.
“Very saddened to listen to that Michael McGrath our first and most beloved Patsy in Spamalot, has handed away,” wrote Monty Python member Eric Idle. “Heat hugs to all of the Spamalot household and really blissful recollections of a stunning man.”
In 2012, McGrath received the Tony for greatest actor in a featured musical position enjoying smart man Cookie McGee in Good Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara.
He additionally performed a hard-boiled radio station proprietor in Memphis and confirmed high-quality vaudevillian chops in On the Twentieth Century singing “5 Zeros,” an ode to the thrill of cash.
In a 2007 evaluate of Follies at Metropolis Heart, The Related Press stated McGrath “exudes a pugnacious, good-time Charlie conviviality that additionally hides insecurities. The actor additionally strikes with the boldness of a born hoofer, notably in his ″’The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Blues.’″
He’s survived by his spouse of 30 years, actor Toni Di Buono and a daughter, actor Katie Claire McGrath.
