IT'S TONY SEASON by Ron Fassler

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 8:53am on May 16, 2022☆⚑

BOBBY BABY BOBBY BUBI BOBBY by Ron Fassler

Robert Morse as J. Pierrepont Finch in "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (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 1:45pm on April 21, 2022☆⚑

AN ACTOR'S LIFE IN PLAYBILL by Ron Fassler

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 on April 12, 2022☆⚑

CHILDREN WILL LISTEN by Ron Fassler

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 9:11am on April 1, 2022☆⚑

"THE BEDROCK OF BROADWAY" UNDERSTUDIES, STANDBYS & SWINGS by Ron Fassler

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 8:35am on March 16, 2022☆⚑

THE 1944 TONY AWARDS by Ron Fassler

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 9:19am on March 11, 2022☆⚑

LEIGH WHIPPER: "I TOOK A LOVE FOR ACTING." by Ron Fassler

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 9:37am on March 7, 2022☆⚑

TONY WALTON: PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW by Ron Fassler

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 1:28pm on March 3, 2022☆⚑

THE GREAT GUNTON, Part 2 by Ron Fassler

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 on February 28, 2022☆⚑

THE GREAT GUNTON by Ron Fassler

Bob Gunton as Juan Peron and Patti LuPone as Evita in "Evita" (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 on February 25, 2022☆⚑

"ON THE 20th CENTURY" " A LILY BLOOMS by Ron Fassler

"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…

SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:56am on February 6, 2022☆⚑