AN ACTOR'S LIFE IN PLAYBILL
It's a funny thing about an actor's resume: they're never complete and always a work in progress. In the constant act of selling themselves, an actor's career needs continual updating. What'…
It's a funny thing about an actor's resume: they're never complete and always a work in progress. In the constant act of selling themselves, an actor's career needs continual updating. What'…
The Original Broadway Cast Recording of "I Do! I Do!" released in 1966.As young kids, I'm sure most Broadway loving-types have all had the same experience. Long before our vocabularies ma…
That tiny slip of paper every theatregoer knows (btw, Christian Dante White was terrific).A common question I see posted from time to time on theatre blogs asks what the difference is betwee…
Vintage Tony Award, prior to its eventual pedestal.Okay, there was never any such thing as a 1944 Tonys. But the awards junkie in me had this thought and decided, for the fun of it, to attem…
Leigh Whipper, depicted in the painting "Dans un Café a Paris" by Lois Mailou Jones (1939).Not many actors have their portraits on the walls of a museum, so imagine my surprise when I ca…
Tony Walton (1934"2022).Anthony John Walton has passed away at the age of eighty-seven. This is a personal loss for me as from the first moment I met him, I melted. He was one of those rare …
Bob Gunton and Beth Fowler as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd" (1989)."You have to love a character to play him" " Bob Gunton. And yes, that of course include…
Bob Gunton as Juan Peron and Patti LuPone as Evita in "Evita"Â (1979).When he was a young man, the actor Bob Gunton took joy in settling in front of the TV with his dad to watch reruns of …
"ON THE 20th CENTURY" " A LILY BLOOMS Judy Kaye and Kevin Kline in "On the 20th Century" (1978).For part three of the saga of On the 20th Century, we begin with the Variety…