Martin Quick is not going to take the stage for his sold-out comedy reveals within the wake of his daughter Katherine Hartley Quick’s premature demise.
The Pabst Theater Group and the Orpheum Theatre introduced through their web sites on Tuesday, February 24, that Quick, 75, and Steve Martin could be suspending their upcoming Friday, February 27, and Friday, February 28, stage reveals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Minneapolis, Minnesota, respectively, “as a result of unexpected circumstances.”
Each venues acknowledged that the bought tickets could be honored for a future “rescheduled” date.
Previous to Martin, 75, and Steve’s present in Minneapolis on Saturday, February 28, a spokesperson for the Orpheum informed Us Weekly it was unclear on the time as as to whether the occasion would nonetheless happen.
Martin Quick’s daughter, Katherine Hartley Quick, has died. She was 42. “It’s with profound grief that we affirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Quick. The Quick household is devastated by this loss and asks for privateness right now,” Martin’s rep confirmed in a press release to Us Weekly on Tuesday, February 24. “Katherine was beloved (…)
A rep for Martin confirmed earlier on Tuesday that Katherine died at age 42.
“It’s with profound grief that we affirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Quick. The Quick household is devastated by this loss, and asks for privateness right now,” a press release shared with Us on Tuesday, February 24, learn. “Katherine was beloved by all and might be remembered for the sunshine and pleasure she introduced into the world.”
No additional particulars had been shared on the time. The Los Angeles Police Division later confirmed to Us that officers responded to a radio name of a potential suicide try within the Hollywood Hills on Tuesday, February, 23, at 6:43 p.m. Officers discovered a deceased feminine on the location. Her official reason behind demise has but to be revealed.
Martin and late spouse Nancy Dolman welcomed daughter Katherine and sons Oliver, 39, and Henry, 36, through adoption. Nancy died in August 2010 after a battle with ovarian most cancers. She was 58.
Within the years since Dolman’s demise, Martin has been candid about his expertise with grief. In a 2012 interview with The GuardianMartin admitted “it’s been a tricky two years” for his kids.
“That is the factor of life that we dwell in denial about, that it’ll ever occur to us or our family members, and when it does you achieve slightly and also you undergo slightly,” Martin mentioned on the time. “There’s no massive shock.”
Whereas reflecting on Dolman’s demise throughout an interview with AARP, Martin shared that the pair’s marriage was a “triumph.”
“So it’s robust,” he informed the outlet through the 2019 interview. “She died in 2010, however I nonetheless talk together with her on a regular basis. It’s ‘Hey, Nan,’ you understand? How would she react to this resolution or that, particularly concerning our three children. I imagine that when folks die, they zoom into the those that love them. This concept that it simply ends, and don’t converse of them — that’s fallacious.”
He continued, “That’s primarily based on denial that we’re all going to die. So to me, she’s nonetheless right here. On the identical time, her demise emboldened me to take dangers. With actual tragedy, you change into slightly extra daring. It’s the yin to the yang: the optimistic a part of life’s darkish facet.”
Whereas Martin had hoped his kids would comply with in his leisure footsteps, his kids in the end determined to pursue completely different profession paths.
“None of them needed to enter present enterprise, and I pushed them,” he mentioned throughout an look on Late Evening With Conan O’Brien in 2019. “I needed them to enter present enterprise. I make them do laps within the morning and I am going to the balcony with my espresso and say, ‘Quitter! Do it once more!’”