Monday, May 16, 2022
Harold Prince, victorious with Tony #20 for "Showboat," with Gregory Hines (1995).Now that the 2022 Tony Awards nominations have been announced and campaigning is in full swing, as usual,…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
Robert Morse as J. Pierrepont Finch in "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"Â (1961).It's with a heavy heart I attempt to put into words what Robert Morse meant to me as an ac…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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'…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2022
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…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
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…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:35AM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2022
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…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:19AM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2022
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…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Monday, February 28, 2022
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…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:46PM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2022
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 …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 6, 2022
"ON THE 20th CENTURY" " A LILY BLOOMS
Judy Kaye and Kevin Kline in "On the 20th Century"Â (1978).For part three of the saga of On the 20th Century, we begin with the Variety…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Thursday, August 29, 2019
'Up In the Cheap Seats' author Ron Fassler on the new documentary about the classic musical
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 11:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 13, 2019
'Up In the Cheap Seats' author Ron Fassler looks back on Hal Prince's immeasurable contribution to Broadway.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 02:17PM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2019
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