Following the fervor of his musing, a resurfaced post from another writer from December added to the rumblings.
Time Out New York theater editor Adam Feldman tweeted in December 2023, “There are two quite surprising celebrity couples I’ve been hearing about for weeks and I can’t believe the news hasn’t broken about either of them yet.”However, a rep for Short told The Messenger (a now defunct website) of his relationship with Streep, “They are just very good friends, nothing more.”
Speculation resurfaced on March 18, 2024, after Streep and Short were spotted taking in the Broadway show “Merrily We Roll Along” on the Saturday night prior. The two were seen sitting next to each at the Hudson Theatre and they both went backstage to congratulate the cast.
It’s pretty unexpected to imagine a pairing of Meryl Streep with Martin Short and watch them find this incredible connection together and, as Meryl said, to not have it be twee or about the age or about any of that,” he said. “It’s just a beautiful romance that you buy, I think because of who these two characters are. But then you see Marty step up in ways that are incredible and nobody works harder at it, comes in with more intelligence to the work and then to watch him have these scenes that break your heart and have to be played with such dramatic poignancy, riding the line of keeping it comedic, keeping it mysterious… I’m amazed.”
Short met actress Dolman in 1972 when they co-starred in the musical Godspell. They married in 1980, at which point Dolman stepped away from her career to raise their children.
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