"Paul Michael Paul Michael (August 15, 1926 – July 8, 2011) was an American actor. He was a regular guest star on American television appearing in ""Kojak"", ""Hill Street Blues"", ""Alias"" and ""Frasier"". He also played King Johnny Romano on ""Dark Shadows"". He was also in movies such as ""Mask of the Red Death"" and the TV movie ""Where There's a Will"". He was best known for his appearances on Broadway where he frequently played the title role in ""Zorba the Greek"", Tevia in ""Fiddler on the Roof"", and the barber in ""The Man of La Mancha"". He danced in"
"""Starlight Express"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Monty Python's Spamalot"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""West Side Story"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Fame - The Musical"", ""Never Forget"", ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical"", ""Cabaret"", ""Blood Brothers"", ""Saturday Night Fever"", ""Carousel"", ""Footloose - The Musical"", ""Grease"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"", ""Our House"", ""Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story"", ""Carousel"", ""Tap Dogs"", ""Taboo"", ""Flashdance - The Musical"", ""Annie"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", """", ""Dancing in the Streets"", ""Sister Act"", ""An Inspector Calls"", ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Rock of Ages"", ""Chicago"","
"a very low ceiling. My experience had taught me how to get a lot out of a little. I approached it with this combination in mind from the moment of conception. I didn’t cut it back to make it fit our space. I created a full blown, challenging score for three instruments. It’s not a matter of compensating for instruments that aren’t there."" The musical premiered in 2007 at the Next Theater in Illinois in a production directed by David Cromer and starring Joel Hatch, Cyrilla Baer, and Amy Warren. The Chicago production was recognized with a Jeff Award for"
"aired, using components from both the 1978 movie and the original Broadway show. Starring Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, and Vanessa Hudgens, the adaptation received positive reviews and ten Emmy nominations. Grease (film) Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film based on the 1971 musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Written by Bronte Woodard and directed by Randal Kleiser in his theatrical feature film debut, the film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson who develop an attraction for each other. The film stars John Travolta as Danny,"
"Golden Goose,"" ""Henny Penny,"" and ""Venus and the Cat"". Each cast member portrayed the various characters in each story; for example, Paul Sand was the Robber Bridegroom, Turkey Lurkey, Cowherd and Rich Peasant, and the Simpleton. Musical numbers featured ""I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"" and ""Dear Landlord"" by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones' ""Sing This All Together"", and ""Here Comes The Sun"" by George Harrison. Additional music was by ""The True Brethren"" (Hamilton Camp, Waqidi Falicoff, Raphael Grinage, Loren Pickford). A television adaptation, produced in Canada and featuring several cast members from the play, aired in 1971. Source: Playbill Paul"
"Grease (musical) Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers, the musical is set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (based on William Howard Taft School in Chicago, Illinois) and follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love. The score borrows heavily from the sounds of early rock and roll. In its original production in Chicago, ""Grease"" was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show. Subsequent productions sanitized it and toned it down. The show"
"to Topol, as producer-director Norman Jewison felt that Mostel's portrayal was too unnecessarily comic. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the film version of ""Fiddler"". He also portrayed the character nearly 3500 times on stage, retiring the role in 2009. Other noteworthy musical Tevyes have included Luther Adler, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Lipson (original Broadway run, over 2,000 performances), Leonard Nimoy (1971 touring company), Shmuel Rodensky (original Israeli, Yiddish and German productions), Alfred Molina and Harvey Fierstein (2004 Broadway revival), Henry Goodman (2007 London revival) and Danny Burstein (2015 Broadway revival). Paul Michael Glaser, who played"
"directed again by Peter Hall and ran for 173 performances (15 December 1999 until 14 May 2000), receiving Tony Award nominations for Best Revival and Best Actor in a Play (David Suchet, who played Salieri). Also in the cast were Michael Sheen as Mozart, Cindy Katz as Constanze and David McCallum as Joseph II. In July 2006, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented a production of portions from the latest revision of the play at the Hollywood Bowl. Neil Patrick Harris starred as Mozart, Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Constanze Mozart, and Michael York as Salieri. Leonard Slatkin conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra. Rupert"
"contained a great deal of spoken dialogue, was eventually phased out in favour of a sung-through score that became part of ""Joseph"". The first production of the show in its modern, final form was at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, which presented the musical several times from 1974 through 1978. A recording of the full musical was released on the MCA label in 1974, again featuring Bond, Reeves and Waller. This is the earliest recording of ""Joseph"" to eventually be issued on CD. Waller also appeared on another recording in 1979, featuring Rice as the Narrator and Paul Jones as"
"""Gold"", a fringe musical based on old school friends getting their school band back together after twenty-five years apart. Paul has appeared in the television series Cranford as a featured character alongside Dame Judy Dench and Eileen Atkins and has collaborated with actor Stephen Donald (Blood Brothers, Brookside) in the north of England. Paul appears at the beginning of the first Harry Potter movie. In 2009, Paul acted as an adjudicator for the Hastings Musical Festival. In 2010, Paul performed as Frank Sinatra alongside Laura Nixon's Marilyn Monroe and Suspiciously Elvis at sell-out shows at ""Alive & Swinging"" in Brighton,"
"he described a number of case studies from his clinical practice. An ambitious attempt to adapt the story into a musical with songs by Stephen Sondheim came to nothing. In 1957 it was dramatized as an episode of TV's Playhouse 90 starring Donald O'Connor, Peter Lorre, David Wayne, Gale Gordon, and Vampira. Lindner was active in a number of professional associations. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, senior analyst of the National Association for Psychoanalysis, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an officer of the Medical Correctional Association. In 1953 he"
"July 2007, starring Lyn Paul. Then the cast returned to London at the Playhouse Theatre from August 17, 2007 through December 6, 2007; Lyn Paul continued her role. The musical will return to the West End in September 2017 at the Peacock Theatre with Gareth Gates and Maureen Nolan confirmed to take on the roles of Willard and Vi Moore. Prather Entertainment Group produced a ""10th Anniversary"" U.S. tour of ""Footloose"". Footloose (musical) Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow (among others), the lyrics by Dean Pitchford"
"Paul singing classics such as ""Stand By Your Man"" and ""Crazy"", the show completed its run five weeks early. In 2013 Paul would starred alongside Will Young in the UK Tour of the West End revival of Kander and Ebb's musical ""Cabaret"". Young reprised his Olivier Award nominated role of the Emcee whilst Paul played the part of Fraulein Schneider. Other cast members included Siobhan Dillon as Sally Bowles, Matt Rawle as Clifford Bradshaw and Linal Haft as Herr Shultz. During the Christmas period of 2014 Paul was to join the Tenth Anniversary production of the Cromer Pier Christmas Show"
"the 1980 film of the same name, adding new plot twists and humor parodying the original movie. The musical was workshopped in 2006 and early 2007 with director Christopher Ashley and actors Jane Krakowski, Tony Roberts, and Cheyenne Jackson. The musical opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on July 10, 2007, with a budget of $5 million. Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson were the Broadway leads. Beane won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. In 2011, Beane was hired to ""doctor"""
"Sugar (musical) Sugar is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. It is based on the film ""Some Like It Hot"", which was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from a story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan. It premiered on Broadway in 1972 and was staged in the West End twenty years later. Two unemployed musicians, bass player Jerry and saxophone player Joe, witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. In order to escape gangster Spats Palazzo and his henchmen, they dress as women and join Sweet"
"Season"" (1977), ""Oliver's Story"" (1978), ""Night of the Juggler"" (1980), ""The Jazz Singer"" (1980), ""Fort Apache, The Bronx"" (1981), ""The Entity"" (1982), ""Too Scared to Scream"" (1985), ""Prizzi's Honor"" (1985), ""Best Seller"" (1987), ""The Lemon Sisters"" (1989), ""Betsy's Wedding"" (1990), ""In the Soup"" (1992), and ""Just the Ticket"" (1999). He was also a theater actor. He guest starred on ""The Sopranos"", in 2000, playing Dr. Krakower. On March 23, 2001, while waiting for a city bus in Queens, New York, Sully Boyar died of a heart attack at 76. Sully Boyar Irving ""Sully"" Boyar (December 14, 1924 – March 23,"
"cast are joined on stage by an ensemble and members of a dance school (Ellie Bailey, Rachael Hackett, Alice Mee and Autumn Wade). 1966 - Maid of the Mountains (Musical) 1967 - The Merry Widow (Musical) 1968 - Summer Song (Musical) 1969 - Quaker Girl (Musical) 1970 - Magyar Melody (Musical) 1971 - Aladdin (Pantomime) 1971 - Finians Rainbow (Musical) 1973 - The Sound of Music (Musical) 1974 - Oaklahoma (Musical) 1975 - Jack and the Beanstalk (Pantomime) 1975 - A Funny Thing (Musical) 1976 - Jorrocks (Musical) 1977 - Mother Goose (Pantomime) 1977 - Chrysanthemum (Musical) 1978 - Humpty"
"an original score by Nelson Riddle. Starring Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar, Stella Stevens, Stubby Kaye, Billie Hayes, Howard St. John, Joe E. Marks, Carmen Alvarez, William Lanteau and Bern Hoffman, with cameos by Jerry Lewis, Robert Strauss, Ted Thurston, Alan Carney, Valerie Harper and Donna Douglas. Three members of the original Broadway cast did ""not"" appear in the film version: Charlotte Rae (who was replaced by Billie Hayes early in the stage production), Edie Adams (who was pregnant during the filming) and Tina Louise. The musical has since become a perennial favorite of high school and amateur productions,"
"the English conquest of Gaelic Ireland. After a Chicago tryout production in 2006, the musical opened on Broadway on April 5, 2007 after 32 previews. It closed on June 17, 2007 after 85 performances. The cast featured Stephanie J. Block as Grace O'Malley, Hadley Fraser as Tiernan and Linda Balgord, who was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I. The show received harsh appraisals from the critics and had weak sales. The musical is set in 16th-century Ireland, a wild country ruled by feuding clans. Most clans are landed, but some, such as Clan"
"a Musical for his role in ""Golf: The Musical"". He appeared in the original production of ""42nd Street"" on Broadway in 1980. Other Broadway roles include ""Stardust"" (1987), ""The Music Man"" (2000) and ""Debbie Reynolds On Broadway"" (1976). He played George in the second U.S. national tour of ""Billy Elliot the Musical"", and Detective Marks/Man in the Off-Broadway musical ""Kid Victory"" (2017). Joel Blum Joel Blum is an American stage actor. Blum was born in San Francisco, California and attended the College of Marin, and joined the national touring company of ""Godspell"" at ACT in San Francisco. Blum was nominated"
"as Sister Moore, and Chuck Cooper as Brother Boxer. Hughes was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The production received poor reviews. The musical was produced in Philadelphia by the Philadelphia Drama Guild in 1986 and has been produced a number of times since. Margaret Alexander, the pastor of a storefront church in Harlem in the early 1960s loses some of her sheen of righteousness in the eyes of her poor but devout, congregation, when her wayward jazz-trombonist husband Luke returns after many years, now ill. Luke had always been trouble, and Sister Margaret had"
"a 35-minute musical, at the Edinburgh International Festival in 1972. While still undergoing various modifications and expansions, the musical was produced in the West End in 1973. In 1974, its full modern format was performed at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester and was also recorded that year. The musical was mounted on Broadway in 1982. Several major revivals, national tours, and a 1999 direct-to-video film starring Donny Osmond followed. The story is based on the Biblical story of Joseph, found in the Book of Genesis. It is set in a frame in which a narrator is telling a story (sometimes"
"for the ill-fated 1976 musical ""So Long, 174th Street"". ""Enter Laughing"" was revived off-Broadway as a musical in 2008. With music and lyrics by Stan Daniels, the production starred Josh Grisetti for a limited run. The ""New York Times"" praised the revival as ""hilarious"" and ""Variety"" reviewer Steven Suskin wrote that ""portions bordered on the hysterical"". Like Arkin in 1963, Grisetti won the 2009 Theatre World Award for his performance. Enter Laughing Enter Laughing is a 1963 play by Joseph Stein. A farce in two acts, it is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Carl Reiner. The action centers on"
"the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, on both stage and television. He starred in the first national tour of the musical ""Drood"", replacing George Rose, who was murdered during the run. He also participated in the workshop production of ""Tom Jones: The Musical"", playing the role of Squire Western and reprising it on the cast recording. His red hair and distinctive Mr. Punch-like features often saw him cast as comic eccentrics in a number of British films of the 1960s and 1970s such as ""Kaleidoscope"" (1966), ""Modesty Blaise"" (1966), ""The Double Man"" (1967), ""Fathom"" (1967), ""The Assassination Bureau"" (1969), ""A"
"it ran for 1128 performances. The original cast consisted of Keir Dullea, Blythe Danner, Eileen Heckart, and Paul Michael Glaser. Replacements during the run included Gloria Swanson, Pamela Bellwood, Kipp Osborne and David Huffman. Stephen Schwartz composed the title song. Gershe, Katselas, Heckart, and Glaser were reunited for the 1972 screen adaptation (set in San Francisco) with Edward Albert and Goldie Hawn. Butterflies Are Free (play) Butterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe. Loosely based on the life of attorney Harold Krents, the plot revolves around a blind man living in downtown Manhattan whose controlling mother disapproves of"
"Frank Loesser, starred Ray Bolger as Charley. It ran between 1948 and 1950 at the St. James Theatre and featured the song ""Once in Love with Amy"" for Bolger. The musical was made into a 1952 film (with Bolger repeating his stage role) and had a successful run in London beginning in 1958 at the Palace Theatre. In 1957, CBS television in the US aired a live production as part of the ""Playhouse 90"" series, starring Art Carney as Babbs, and Orson Bean as Charley and Jeanette MacDonald as the real Donna Lucia. In the 1960s BBC Television broadcast three"
"Grease (film) Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film based on the 1971 musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Written by Bronte Woodard and directed by Randal Kleiser in his theatrical feature film debut, the film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson who develop an attraction for each other. The film stars John Travolta as Danny, Olivia Newton-John as Sandy, and Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo, a member of the Pink Ladies. Released on June 16, 1978, ""Grease"" was successful both critically and commercially. Its ended"
"Not on the Soundtrack The original score calls for a piano, two tenor saxophones, bass guitar, percussion, and two guitars. The 2007 revival includes two pianos, two reeds, trombone, trumpet, guitar, bass guitar, and percussion. Grease (musical) Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers, the musical is set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (based on William Howard Taft School in Chicago, Illinois) and follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love. The"
"and Bill Dees The track, ""Rollin' On"", was covered on the 33 record album ""Famous Western Film Melodies"" by the Prague Radio Dance Orchestra - ARTIA SUPRAPHON 1 13 1788. The Fastest Guitar Alive The Fastest Guitar Alive is a 1967 American musical comedy film directed by Michael D. Moore and starring singer Roy Orbison in his only starring role as an actor. A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War, with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint"
"nominations, for Best Actor in a Musical (Cassidy), Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael O'Sullivan, playing the main villain), and Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Marand). One of the songs from the score, ""You've Got Possibilities"" (introduced by Lavin), had some success outside the show as a nightclub and cabaret standard. Two productions were staged the next year. Both the St. Louis Municipal Opera and the Kansas City Starlight Theatre (in 1966, titled ""Superman"") re-staged the show, and Bob Holiday played Superman in both productions. Each was an open-air venue, requiring the use of a large crane to"
"roles in ""Victor/Victoria"" (1995–97), played Corky, Luke and other roles in ""Steel Pier"" (1997); understudied and performed as Neville in ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1999); played the role of Frank Manero in ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1999–2000); understudied the role of Horton and other roles in ""Seussical"" (2000–01); and played the role of Dexter, among other roles, in ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"" (2002–04). He can be heard on the cast album of most of these musicals. His other performing credits include ""Billion Dollar Baby"" (Off-Off-Broadway), for a Musicals in Mufti concert (1998) and ""Bells Are Ringing"" at the Goodspeed Opera House (1990). On"
"Jablonsky, Mark Mothersbaugh, John Powell), John Ashton Thomas (John Powell, John Debney, Alan Silvestri, James Newton Howard, Henry Jackman, Lyle Workman, Theodore Shapiro, John Ottman, John Paesano), Robert Elhai (Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Kamen, Ed Shearmur, Brian Tyler, Klaus Badelt, Ilan Eshkeri ) and J.A.C. Redford (James Horner, Thomas Newman). Conrad Salinger was the most prominent orchestrator of MGM musicals from the 1940s to 1962, orchestrating such famous films as ""Singin' in the Rain"", ""An American in Paris"", and ""Gigi"". In the 1950s, film composer John Williams frequently spent time with Salinger informally learning the craft of orchestration. Robert Russell Bennett"
"included Tony Roberts, Stockard Channing, Victor Garber, Anita Gillette, Diana Canova and Ted Wass. An original cast recording was released by Casablanca Records. Film rights were purchased by Rastar Films in late 1979. Producer Ray Stark planned a 1982 release through Columbia Pictures with new songs contributed by Hamlisch and Sager. The film, however, was never produced. The first U.S. national tour opened in 1979 with Victor Garber and Ellen Greene. The musical opened in the West End on October 1, 1980 at the Shaftesbury Theatre with Tom Conti and Gemma Craven, who won a 1980 Laurence Olivier Award for"