Broderick's first major acting role came in an HB Studio workshop production of playwright Horton Foote's "On Valentine's Day", playing opposite his father, who was a friend of Foote's. This was followed by a supporting role as Harvey Fierstein's gay adopted son, David, in the Off-Broadway production of Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy"; then, a good review by "The New York Times" theater critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Broadway. Broderick commented on the effects of that review in a 2004 "60 Minutes II" interview: Before I knew it, I was like this guy in a hot play.
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Matthew Broderick | Career
His first major acting role came in an HB Studio workshop production of playwright Horton Foote's "On Valentine's Day" When he got a role in "On Valentine's Day". Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. In the movie "On Valentine's Day".
who did the voice for simba in lion king
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Matthew Broderick
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can you name the movie ?
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The Lion King
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when was it released?
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June 1994
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who designed the protagonist?
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Mark Henn served as Simba's supervising animator as a cub, Ruben A. Aquino animated the character as he appears as an adult.
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what response did the character receive?
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Universal acclaim, a superbly realized character
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who did the music for the movie?
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Hans Zimmer
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did it receive any award?
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Yes - Golden Globes; for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Original Score ; Academy Awards for Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer) and Best Original Song with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" ; Annie Awards for Best Animated Feature
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what can you tell me about the person who voiced for the protagonist?
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An American actor and singer
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can you name any one of his works?
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He played Ferris Bueller in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (1986);  He played Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical 'The Producers' and its 2005 film adaptation.
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when did he begin his career?
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Broderick's first major acting role came in an HB Studio workshop production of playwright Horton Foote's "On Valentine's Day", playing opposite his father, who was a friend of Foote's. This was followed by a supporting role as Harvey Fierstein's gay adopted son, David, in the Off-Broadway production of Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy"; then, a good review by "The New York Times" theater critic Mel Gussow brought him to the attention of Broadway. Broderick commented on the effects of that review in a 2004 "60 Minutes II" interview: Before I knew it, I was like this guy in a hot play.
Matthew Broderick | Career
Broderick was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1986 for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Accolades
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor and singer. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986), the voice of adult Simba in Disney's "The Lion King" (1994), and Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical "The Producers" and its 2005 film adaptation. Other films he had starring credits in include "WarGames" (1983), "Glory" (1989), "The Freshman" (1990), "The Cable Guy" (1996), "Godzilla" (1998), "Election" (1999), "Inspector Gadget" (1999), and "You Can Count on Me" (2000). Broderick also directed himself in "Infinity" (1996) and provided voice work in "Good Boy!" (2003), "Bee Movie" (2007), and "The Tale of Despereaux" (2008).
Matthew Broderick | Introduction
Hughes said that he had Broderick in mind when he wrote the screenplay, saying Broderick was the only actor he could think of who could pull off the role, calling him clever and charming. "Certain guys would have played Ferris and you would have thought, 'Where's my wallet?'" Hughes said. "I had to have that look; that charm had to come through. Jimmy Stewart could have played Ferris at 15...I needed Matthew." Alan Ruck later told the "AV Club" that Anthony Michael Hall, who had previously worked with Hughes on three films, was originally offered the part but turned it down.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off | Casting
Broderick was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Patricia (née Biow), a playwright, actress, and painter, and James Broderick, an actor and World War II veteran. His mother was Jewish, a descendant of Jewish immigrants from Germany and Poland. His father was a Catholic of Irish, and some English, descent. Broderick attended grade school at City and Country School in Manhattan and high school at the private Walden School, also in Manhattan. He received acting training at HB Studio.
Matthew Broderick | Early life and education
In 2004, he replaced Richard Dreyfuss in "The Producers" in the West End. Dreyfuss was let go just a week before the show's first preview at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Lane went on to win the Olivier Award as Best Actor in a Musical. His performance in the film version, opposite Broadway co-star, Matthew Broderick as Leo Bloom, earned him his second Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. In 2003 he starred Off-Broadway in "Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted". In 2005, Lane rejoined Broderick for a successful limited run of "The Odd Couple".
Nathan Lane | 2000s
Boutler began his professional career at the Royal Shakespeare Company in January 1985. He stayed with the company for two years starring in six productions. During this time, he played small roles and understudied 40 characters as well as mounting several fringe shows at The Other Place and Almeida Theatre.
Russell Boulter | Career
And suddenly, all these doors opened. And it's only because Mel Gussow happened to come by right before it closed and happened to like it. It's just amazing. All these things have to line up that are out of your control. He followed that with the role of Eugene Morris Jerome in the Neil Simon "Eugene Trilogy" including the plays "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "Biloxi Blues". He won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role in "Brighton Beach Memoirs".
Matthew Broderick | Career
O'Hare began his career in 1964 by designing the sets and costumes for the Victoria Hall theatre in Leatherhead, Surrey. He went on to design the costumes and sets for many theatrical productions especially in Dublin, Ireland.
James Haldane O'Hare | Theatrical career
He also performed in the 1963 London stage production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" at the Shaftesbury Theatre. His career as a character actor began in 1956 with the film "Teenage Rebel", and continued in the movies "Because They're Young" (1960), "The Wackiest Ship In The Army" (1960), "Billie" (1965) and "Thunder Alley" (1967).
Warren Berlinger | Career
This then led to him joining the National Youth Theatre. He began his career in a 1956 production of "The Yellow Jacket". In 1959 he made his West End début with a small part in a production of "Hamlet".
Michael York | Early life and education
Scott, , "Contributions" (Claudia McNeil), the national tour of "The Mad Show") and "Fire" on Broadway (1969), prior to turning his attention to the film industry. He started there as an assistant director for David Lean on " Ryan's Daughter" (Robert Mitchum, John Mills, MGM, 1970). After joining Columbia Pictures in New York in 1970, where he worked in the Business Affairs Department while being trained to be the assistant to then President Stanley Schneider, he worked for Ely Landau at the American Film Theatre as a Production Executive on "A Delicate Balance" (Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield), "The Iceman Cometh" (Lee Marvin, Jeff Bridges), Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder), "The Homecoming" (Ian Holm), and "The Man In the Glass Booth" (Maximilian Schell).
Jonathan Burrows (producer) | Early career
He began his career in 1786 playing lover roles and stock character roles.
Josef Derossi | Life
He went on to star in the first productions at the Williamstown Theater in Williamstown, Massachusetts and stage productions in Canada, England and the United States. He began using the stage name Jonathan Frid in 1962, and made his Broadway debut as an understudy in the 1964 play "Roar Like a Dove".
Jonathan Frid | Early life and career
In 1885, he toured the United States with Violet Cameron. In 1888, he appeared in T. Edgar Pemberton's comedy, "Steeple Jack", and two years later in the operetta "La Cigale". Brough played the comic lead, Pietro, in Gilbert and Alfred Cellier's comic opera "The Mountebanks" (1892).
Lionel Brough | Professional career
The remarkable thing is that he managed to do them both at the same time." He later won the role of Rab Biggar in the popular Broadway production of "Bunty Pulls the Strings" by Graham Moffat, and dropped out of a country-wide theatrical tour in 1916 to pursue a career in Hollywood.
James Finlayson (actor) | Early life and stage career
The summer was spent as Pandarus in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" at the Globe in London. He opened in "Comedians" at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in October 2009.
Matthew Kelly | Career
He began his acting career in New York City in 1978, studying with Stella Adler and at the Actors Studio. His New York theater credits include the Broadway premiere productions of "Next Fall", which was a 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best New Play, Wendy Wasserstein's "An American Daughter") and Lanford Wilson's "Burn This". He also co-starred with Judd Hirsch in the National Tour of the Tony Award-winning play "Art". His numerous Off Broadway appearances include the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of "The Tempest' with Sam Waterston; Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning "How I Learned to Drive" with Molly Ringwald; Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Soldier's Play" with Denzel Washington and Samuel L.
Cotter Smith | Career
From 1915 to 1917, Nathan Altman was the teacher at Mikhail Bernstein's private art school. After 1916 he started to work as a stage designer.
Nathan Altman | Career
He continued to contribute popular performances into the 20th century and ended his career in comedy roles with Herbert Beerbohm Tree's company.
Lionel Brough | Introduction
On Broadway, he appeared in the 1989 revival of "The Threepenny Opera" as Money Matthew and as the frazzled head writer in the original 1992 production of "My Favorite Year".
Josh Mostel | Life and career
Although, as a child, he appeared a couple of times in his father's productions, it was intended that he would become a lawyer. He attended Marlborough College and New College, Oxford where he studied law and appeared in some student productions. Afterwards, in 1894, he was called to the Bar at the "Inner Temple", but instead of pursuing a career as a barrister he decided to become an actor, taking the stage name H. B. Irving to distinguish himself from his father.
Harry Brodribb Irving | Early life
John's entertainment career began as a high school student actor in South San Francisco and while at college worked as a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. He performed in the Troupe's award-winning production of "A Minstrel Show (or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel)" He attended film schools in Sweden and London, and returned to the US to ply his trade. Initially he directed underground films in New York City and then moved on to a producing, directing, acting and editing career in Hollywood. He worked on a wide range of films, including "The Exorcist" (1973, supervising editor, for which he received an Oscar nomination), "Six Pack Annie" (1975, director), "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1986, production manager) and "Monkey Trouble" (1994, production manager and co-producer).
John Broderick (producer) | Biography
He began life as an office boy, largely educated himself and began lecturing and writing early. He later became an actor, press agent, and theatrical business manager. This led to the production of dramas for the stage with which he combined the writing of short stories, critical articles and poems. He taught for several years at Bennett Junior College in Millbrook, New York. He retired in Los Angeles.
Charles Rann Kennedy (playwright) | Biography
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off." He gave up acting after two years because he "couldn't stand the politics in Hollywood". Brendon returned to school to study medicine, which didn't work out; he also tried his hand at a variety of odd jobs, including plumber's assistant, veterinary janitor, day care counselor, waiter, and production assistant for the television show "Dave's World".
Nicholas Brendon | Early life
Donlevy began his career in New York City in the early 1920s, appearing in many theater productions and also winning an increasing number of silent film parts. Previously, he had modeled for the illustrator J. C. Leyendecker, who produced illustrations for the famous Arrow Collar advertisements. Donlevy had small roles in the silent films "Jamestown" (1923), "Damaged Hearts" (1924), "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1924), "The Eve of the Revolution" (1924), and "School for Wives" (1925). He had a small role on Broadway in the play "What Price Glory" (1925), which was a big hit and ran for two years, establishing him as an actor.
Brian Donlevy | Broadway
Broderick has won two Tony Awards, one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (1983), and one for Best Actor in a Musical for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (1995). , Broderick remains the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In 2006, for his contributions to the film industry, Matthew Broderick was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. Eleven years later, Broderick earned induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Broderick starred as Michael Burr in the Netflix comedy series "Daybreak" (2019).
Matthew Broderick | Introduction
"All films, he was producer unless otherwise noted."
Broderick Johnson | Filmography
Burnand's English version of "La Vie parisienne". In August of the same year he appeared at Covent Garden in Dion Boucicault's fairy drama "Babil and Bijou". During the 1870s, Brough was resident comic lead at the Gaiety, Globe, Charing Cross and Imperial theatres. In the 1870s and 1880s he increasingly augmented his popular parts in modern works with more revivals of classic comic roles, including Tony Lumpkin again, Croaker in Oliver Goldsmith's "The Good-Natured Man", Dromio of Ephesus in "The Comedy of Errors" and Bob Acres in "The Rivals". In 1878, he played opposite Lydia Thompson in burlesques at the Folly Theatre, including as King Jingo in "Stars and Garters".
Lionel Brough | Professional career
Dreyfuss began as a Broadway theatrical designer. Until 1920, he apprenticed under Norman Bel Geddes, who would later become one of his competitors. In 1929 Dreyfuss opened his own office for theatrical and industrial design. His firm quickly met with commercial success, and continued as Henry Dreyfuss Associates for over four decades after his death.
Henry Dreyfuss | Career
In summer 1951 he was associate producer of the Shaw Festival at the Rice Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard, where he performed in several plays by George Bernard Shaw.
Arthur Lithgow | Career
Though modern comedy was usually played, there was one excursion into Shakespeare, a notable performance of "Much Ado About Nothing" with Titheradge as Benedick, and Mrs Brough as Beatrice. Boucicault had invaluable experience both as a producer and as an actor, and when he returned to London in 1896 he was capable of taking any part that his lack of height, 5 ft 7 in (170 cm), did not disqualify him for. On 20 January 1898 he played one of his most successful parts, Sir William Gower, in "Trelawney of the Wells", and a long succession of important parts followed, including many characters of "crusty senility".
Dion Boucicault Jr. | Theatrical career
Fagan began his career as an actor with the company of Sir Frank Benson for two years, then joining, from 1895 to 1899, the company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree at Her Majesty's Theatre. There he appeared in "Katherine and Petruchio", "A Man's Shadow", "Julius Caesar", "The Musketeers" and "Carnac Sahib". He started writing plays in 1899, with "The Rebels", for the time forsaking acting. Other early plays were "The Prayer of the Sword" (1904); "Under Which King", a revue, "Shakespeare v. Shaw", and "Hawthorne, USA" (all 1905); "Gloria" (1907); "A Merry Devil" and "False Gods" (a translation of Eugène Brieux's "La foi" (1909); "The Dressing Room" (1910); "Bella donna" (1911; adapted from Robert Hitchens's novel); and "The Happy Island" (1913).
J. B. Fagan | Early life and career
He began acting professionally on stage in New York City in the early 1920s, and continued to do so for almost thirty years, appearing both off and on Broadway. He moved into film around 1950. He did do some television in the early 1950s, but did most of his television work in dramas during the last five years of his life, from 1955 on.
Fay Roope | Acting career
In September 2010 he starred in the New York production of the new Edward Albee play "Me, Myself & I" also at Playwrights Horizons.
Zachary Booth | Career
The diminutive actor () originally wanted to become a teacher, but failed to gain such employment, and worked in a solicitor's office. He found this job too mundane and he began to take an interest in the theatre. After indulging in amateur theatricals, Brough attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the mid-1920s. After graduating, he joined a Shakespearean theatrical troupe, where he met his wife-to-be, actress Elizabeth Addyman. After they married, they used their wedding dowry as collateral to rent the Leas Pavilion, a repertory theatre in Folkestone, Kent. They had one daughter, Joanna, who was educated at Ashford School for Girls.
Arthur Brough | Early life
Frawley began performing in Broadway theater. His first such show was the musical comedy, "Merry, Merry", in 1925. He later made his first dramatic role in 1932, playing press agent Owen O'Malley in the original production of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "Twentieth Century". He continued to be a dramatic actor at various locales until 1933. In 1916, Frawley had appeared in two short subject silent films. He performed subsequently in three other short films, but he had not decided to develop a cinematic career until 1933, beginning with short comedy films and the feature musical "Moonlight and Pretzels" (Universal Studios, 1933).
William Frawley | Early career
Widdoes graduated from The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1972, and is a member of their Board of Trustees. He began his acting career during college, starring in a production of "The New Amen Show" at the Diners Playhouse in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1974. He next attended Skidmore College in 1972 and then transferred to New York University's Tisch School of Arts, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. While in New York, he roomed with such soon-to-be famous actors as Michael O'Keefe from "Caddyshack" and "The Great Santini." He then began performing on New York City stages in productions such as the 1977 Equity Library Theatre revival of "Wonderful Town" and the 1982 Broadway musical "Is there life after high school?" His role in this last production won him a Theatre World Award.
James Widdoes | Early life
He made his Broadway debut in the 1995 revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," played Munkustrap in the closing company of "Cats" and understudied Matthew Broderick in the original cast of "The Producers". He was the assistant choreographer and understudy for the Noël Coward role in the Off-Broadway musical revue "If Love Were All" in 1999. At New York City Center Encores! concert series he played Jenkins in "Of Thee I Sing" (2006) and Pat Mason, Jr. in "Face the Music" (2007). In 2004 he originated the role of Phil Davis opposite Brian d'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee and Meredith Patterson in the World Premiere production of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.
Jeffry Denman | Career
Byron joined several provincial companies as an actor from 1853–57, sometimes in his own plays and sometimes in those of T. W. Robertson (with whom he acted and starved) or others, but had little success. He described his early attempts at acting, and the hardships of the journeyman touring actor, in an 1873 essay for "The Era Almanack and Annual" called "Eighteen Parts a Week". He began writing burlesques of melodramas and extravaganzas in the mid-1850s. In 1857, his burlesque of "Richard of the Lion Heart" premièred at the Royal Strand Theatre. His successful works in 1858 included "The Lady of Lyons, or, Twopenny Pride and Pennytence" and "Fra Diavolo Travestie; or, The Prince, the Pirate and the Pearl", also at the Strand, which later played in New York.
Henry James Byron | Early career
He began his career in New York in 1984 as a management assistant for Richard Horner and Lynne Stuart, working on productions of "Kennedy at Colonus" and "Lady Day," followed by a year working for publicist Milly Schoenbaum in the office of producer Morton Gottlieb, where the productions he worked on included the original production of "Little Shop of Horrors," which he would later produce in its Broadway premiere. It was during his work as the press agent for the original off-Broadway production of "Orphans" at the Westside Arts Theatre that he first met Richard Frankel. Frankel was producing "Penn & Teller" which was playing in the downstairs theatre and "Orphans" was playing in the upstairs theatre.
Marc Routh | Early career
He was graduated in 1956, passing on a scholarship to Temple University in order to pursue a career as a stage actor at the Bessie V. Hicks School of Theatre (alongside Charles Dierkop and Bruce Dern, with whom he second-acted plays doing their pre-Broadway tryouts in Philadelphia) while working at Browning King, a men's tailor shop at Fourteenth and Chestnut streets.
Robert Hooks | Early life
He resumed his stage career for a few years, before giving up regular acting in 1948.
Mander and Mitchenson | Early years
Fitzgerald started his acting career in 1980, at the age of eight, when he appeared as the youngest boy in Portland Player's production of "Oliver!". From that time on, he worked steadily in community theater and Maine's New Vaudeville shows. In college, he began his career as a summer apprentice at Williamstown Theater Festival. At the age of twenty-six, in 1998, he starred in his first off-Broadway show, the controversial "Corpus Christi" by acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally. In the same year, he also appeared in "The Matchmaker" by Williamstown Theatre Festival, as well as an off-Broadway staging of "The Cripple of Inishmaan".
Christopher Fitzgerald (actor) | Theatre
Boesenberg's career began in the theatre, with his first role in the Sydney-based PACT Centre for Emerging Artists production "Madagaskar Lily". He then moved on to the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) where he developed a passion for Shakespeare. He played the role of Banquo in "Macbeth", and Ulysses in "Troilus and Cressida". He was soon awarded a scholarship by the ATYP for his outstanding work and chose to travel to New York. On moving to New York from Australia in 1999, Boesenberg studied with the Atlantic Theater Company (a school started by David Mamet and William H. Macy).
Matt Boesenberg | Early career
However, before all of this was John Brougham himself. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1810, Brougham was educated at Trinity College to be a surgeon, but he expended much of his college career partaking in substandard theatre endeavors. He made his true theatrical debut in London in 1830 playing six characters in the play Tom and Jerry. Being the well-rounded theatre man he was, Brougham also became the manager of the Lyceum Theatre in 1840, where he wrote several of his lighter burlesques. Finally in 1842, he made the fateful move to the United States, where he quickly joined in on the theatre scene – managing first the Niblo's Garden, and then opening his own namesake lyceum in 1850, Brougham's Lyceum.
Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage | John Brougham
Upon his severing the partnership and starting theatre management on his own account in the provinces, he lost money, ending up in bankruptcy court in 1868. However, he produced many of his plays at these theatres while continuing to write for London theatres. One successful provincial work was "Dearer than Life" (1867), which received many revivals, beginning with a London revival in 1868 starring J. L. Toole and the young Henry Irving. Another, the same year, was "The Lancashire Lass; or, Tempted, Tried and True" (1867), a melodrama, also revived in London in 1868. He even collaborated with W. S.
Henry James Byron | Early career
In 1930, he graduated from Fordham University and began his career as a stockbroker in New York City.
Matthew J. Connelly | Career
A native of Athens, Georgia, Johnson met his current producing partner Andrew Kosove while the two attended Princeton University as undergraduates. Johnson majored in economics and initially pursued a career on Wall Street, accepting a position at Salomon Brothers in New York where he worked as a quantitative analyst in the equity derivatives group.
Broderick Johnson | Early life
After graduating from high school, Behrman attempted a career as an actor on the vaudeville circuit. Bad health forced him to quit, and he returned home to Worcester and attended Clark University. There he studied under the noted psychologist G. Stanley Hall and heard Sigmund Freud lecture on his 1909 American tour. He immersed himself in the plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Arthur Pinero, and Maurice Maeterlinck.
S. N. Behrman | Early years
In August 2009, Groff performed in "The Bacchae" as Dionysus, as a part of the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park.
Jonathan Groff | 2005–2009: Career beginnings and "Spring Awakening"
In 1877, he took charge of the Chicago Comedy Co., with John Dillon as star in "Our Boys". He next joined Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels as manager, touring the U.S. and Europe. Then for a time he was associated with his brothers Daniel and Gustave in managing the Madison Square Theatre, New York. He began to produce plays by 1886. Frohman's first success as a producer was with Bronson Howard's play "Shenandoah" (1889). Frohman founded the Empire Theatre Stock Company to acquire his first Broadway theatre, the Empire, in 1892. The following year, he produced his first Broadway play, Clyde Fitch's "Masked Ball".
Charles Frohman | Life and career
From 1986 until 2003, Bennett was an actor in New York City. He made a career on the New York stage in the original productions of "Floyd Collins", "Titanic," "Blood Brothers", "Zara Spook and Other Lures", "Amour", "Radio Gals", Anne Bogart's "Marathon Dancing", and the original off-Broadway (Sullivan Street) production of "The Fantasticks". Bennett created the musical stage play, "Ten Years Apart", as well as the play "Badger Country", both with writing partner Sean McCourt.
Matthew Bennett (TV producer) | Theater
The show finally reached Broadway in 2000 in a Tony Award-nominated production co-produced with Jordan Roth Productions at the Circle in the Square theatre.
Christopher Malcolm | Career
Roles there included Phillip II, Henry VIII, Sparafucile, Boris Godunov and Hunding.
Karl Ridderbusch | Background and early career
Ralph Macchio was offered the role of Finch when Broderick left the show, but opted to take the role in the touring cast instead. Broderick made a brief return to the show so he could star opposite Parker. Robert Mandan played Biggley in its California pre-Broadway run but chose not to transfer to New York. The wardrobe was designed by Susan Hilferty and is on display at the Costume World Broadway Collection in Pompano Beach, Florida.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical) | Broadway revival (1995–1996)
Yet he had already started writing for the stage by this date. An early collaboration, "A Fault in Friendship" (now lost) was licensed in 1623 for Prince Charles's Men; a 1629 solo Brome effort, "The Lovesick Maid" (also lost), was a success for the King's Men. "The Northern Lass" (1632) was another success, and made Brome's reputation. Due to the survival of various legal documents, much more is known about Brome's professional activities than his personal life. Once established as a dramatist, Brome wrote for all the major acting companies and theaters of his era — for the Blackfriars Theatre ; for the Red Bull Theatre; and from 1635 onward, for the King's Revels Company and Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre.
Richard Brome | Life
Since there was a limited number of actors in the company for economic reasons, they often had to play characters far from their own age or appearance. Brough took his company on tour, and helped establish rep companies in Aldershot, Southend and Eastbourne.
Arthur Brough | Theatre impresario
After teaching at Cornell University, Vassar College, and Columbia, where he became a full professor of dramatic literature in the English department, he became Dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, and served in that position until 1979. It was during this period, in 1966, that he founded the Yale Repertory Theatre. In 1979, Brustein left Yale for Harvard University, where he founded the American Repertory Theatre (ART) and became a professor of English. At Harvard, he founded the Institute for Advanced Theater Training. He retired from the artistic directorship of ART in 2002 and now serves on the faculty of the institute.
Robert Brustein | Life and career
Faculty advisor to the student drama club, Mask and Dagger, (and director) J. "Joe" Donald Batcheller was impressed and gave him the role of Bluntschli, an anti-romantic Swiss soldier. Batcheller said, "You could tell from the beginning that he was an exceptional individual. He displayed an unusual ability to get along with people. He was kind, sensitive, imaginative, and had a good sense of humor. He also had an Irish mug if I ever saw one."
James Broderick | Life and career
In the early 1950s he started his own repertory company at the Everyman Theatre in Reading; he was its artistic director until 1958.
Kevin Laffan | Early life and theatre career
While clerk in a large shop he studied for the stage and made his first appearance in 1874 at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston in Stuart Robson's company as the newsboy in Joseph Bradford's "Law in New York". The next year he appeared at Tony Pastor's Opera House in New York City where he began his career as a vaudevillian.
Howard Athenaeum | Actors and actresses who began their careers at the Howard Athenaeum
Over the six years of his management at the Garrick, he produced many plays, often starring himself and Vanbrugh, including "The Bishop's Move", "My Lady Virtue", "Whitewashing Julia", "The Arm of the Law" and W. S. Gilbert's "The Fairy's Dilemma" (1904). Their production of "The Walls of Jericho" by Alfred Sutro, in 1904, ran for a very successful 423 performances. Bourchier and Vanbrugh appeared in command performances before King Edward VII in November 1902 in "Dr Johnson" at Sandringham with Henry Irving's company, and in November 1905 in "The Merchant of Venice" at Windsor. They toured in 1908 in "John Glayde's Honour".
Arthur Bourchier | Early career
By the end of 1936 he had left his sales job in Beaconsfield to pursue a full-time acting career. He moved into a small flat at Marble Arch and became one of the many jobbing actors eager to make a name for themselves on the London stage.
Michael Hordern | Theatrical beginnings
By his early teens Kyle had won an oration competition and acquired a keen interest in the works of William Shakespeare. He began his acting career in amateur theatre as Kyle Vandergrift and made his professional stage debut at the age of 23 under the name Howard Kyle.
Howard Kyle | Early life
Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, and Hyannis, Massachusetts. He took acting classes in New York City at age 19—some at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with Sanford Meisner—and he recalled making his New York theater debut in a 1961 production of Fernando Arrabal's play "And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers", saying, "I was a replacement and it was my first sort of job in New York." He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived "Red, White and Maddox" (1969), and went on to Off-Broadway roles in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Kaspar" (February 1973), "The Harlot and the Hunted", "The Seagull" (January 1974), "Total Eclipse" (February 1974), "Macbeth", "In the Boom Boom Room", "Cracks", "Professional Resident Company", "What Every Woman Knows", "The Father", "King Lear", "Power Failure" and, in mid-1972, appeared in a Jean Cocteau double bill, "Orphee" and "The Human Voice", at the Jean Cocteau Theater at 43 Bond Street.
Christopher Lloyd | Career
In 1836 he became a stage agent in Boston.
Benjamin Pierce Cheney | Early life
After his graduation, Pierce moved to New York City, where during the 1980s and early 1990s he was employed in various jobs, such as selling ties at Bloomingdale's and working as a security guard, while pursuing an acting career and studying at Michael Howard Studios. During this period he played Laertes in a popular off-Broadway production of "Hamlet" and made his Broadway debut in 1982 in Christopher Durang's "Beyond Therapy".
David Hyde Pierce | 1980s
He showed his manuscript to Mark Lemon, editor of "Punch", who accepted it for publication; Burnand remained a "Punch" writer for the rest of his career. "Dido" was followed by "The Îles of St Tropez" (1860), "Fair Rosamond" (1862) and "The Deal Boatman" (1863), among many others. His most memorable early success was another musical burlesque, "Ixion, or the Man at the Wheel" (1863), starring Lydia Thompson in the title role, which found audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. By this time Burnand was a skilled negotiator with theatre managements, and he was among the first authors to insist on profit-sharing instead of fixed royalties.
F. C. Burnand | 1860s: start of writing career
The following year aged 14 he played the page in a production of "Saint Joan" by George Bernard Shaw. Five years later he was in a production of "Beau Geste" alongside Laurence Olivier. He appeared on Broadway in "Journey's End" by the age of 18.
Jack Hawkins | Career
As an undergraduate, "he dazzled his fellow students with his flair for dress and his virtuosity as an amateur actor." Fitch was one of the first American playwrights to publish their plays. His first work of note was "Beau Brummell" (1890), set in the English Regency, which became a lucrative showcase for actor Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), who would play the title role for the rest of his life. His 1892 play "Masked Ball" (an adaption from Alexandre Bisson's Le Veglione) would be the first time that producer Charles Frohman put Maude Adams opposite John Drew Jr., a pairing which led to many successes.
Clyde Fitch | Biography
Upon graduation, Bauer started working in public relations at Grey Advertising. Soon afterwards, he left New York for Paris, France to pursue a career in dramatic writing and cinema. In Paris, he started working as an actor and began writing. He came back to New York to secure financing for a project with Philippe Gérard. In 1970, his first play, "A Dream Out of Time" starring Sam Levene, who made his Off-Broadway debut at the Promenade Theatre on upper Broadway, 43 years after he made his Broadway debut in 1927. In Seattle, "A Fine and Private Place", an adaptation of a novel by Peter S.
Irv Bauer | Career
Selzer's acting career began with small parts on Broadway. After moving to Hollywood in 1960, he began a prolific career as a character actor making many guest appearances in film and television.
Milton Selzer | Career
On his return he continued his stage career and produced a play by Dion Boucicault's, called "London Assurance", in Norfolk, Virginia, but it was not profitable. In about 1843 he went to sea again as owner/master of the brig "Ganges", trading between America, Europe and the Mediterranean with his father acting as shipping agent. During this period he visited London and appeared in two minor plays in the Strand Theatre – "Ben the Boatswain" and "Monsieur Tonson" (1847). After eight years he returned to the American theatre; in 1852 he was a stage manager in Cincinnati and in 1854 entered into a joint management venture with Henry E.
Harry Eytinge | Early career
He appeared in the series "Daddy's Girls" in 1994, which was canceled after three episodes. From 1996 to 2002, Alan played Stuart Bondek in the sitcom "Spin City" alongside Michael J. Fox and later, Charlie Sheen. In 2005, he played Leo Bloom in the Broadway version of Mel Brooks' "The Producers", a role also played by his "Ferris Bueller" co-star, Matthew Broderick.
Alan Ruck | Career
Brougham fell in with a crowd that put on their own shows, cast by drawing parts out of a hat. Though he most always traded off larger roles so he could pay attention to his studies, Brougham took quite an interest in acting. He was a frequent attendant, moreover, at the Theatre Royal in Hawkins Street. He was educated with the intention of his becoming a surgeon, and walked the Peth Street Hospital for eight months, but misfortune came upon his uncle, and so the youth was obliged to provide for himself. Before leaving the university he, by chance, had become acquainted with the actress Madame Vestris.
John Brougham | Biography
He kept working for various producers, including a stint at Universal Pictures in the mid-1940s.
J. Edward Bromberg | Career
He made his West End debut in 1956.
Francis Matthews (actor) | Early life
Dullin began his career as an actor in melodrama In 1908, he started his first troupe with Saturnin Fabre, the "Théâtre de Foire," where they staged works by Alexandre Arnoux.
Charles Dullin | Career
Following "End as a Man", Garfein helmed three more plays on Broadway: Richard Nash's "Girls of Summer" (1956), starring Shelley Winters, John McLiam's "The Sin of Pat Muldoon" (1957), and Sean O'Casey's "The Shadow of a Gunman" (1958), starring a young Bruce Dern in a breakthrough role. Garfein's numerous off-Broadway credits include Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" (1966), Eugène Ionesco's "California Reich" and "The Lesson" (1978–79), Arthur Miller's"The Price" and "The American Clock" (1979-1980), Anton Chekhov's "Sketchbook" with Joseph Bulof and John Herd (1981), Alan Schneider's "Catastrophe" (1983), Samuel Beckett's "Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe", "What Where," and "Endgame" (1983–84), Nathalie Saurraute's "For" "No Good Reason" (1985) and "Childhood" (1985), starring Glenn Close, "A Kurt Weill Cabaret" with Alvin Epstein and Marta Schlamme (1985), Gastón Salvatore's "Stalin" (1989), Ekkehard Schall's plays for the Brecht Theater, and South African playwright Athol Fugard's "Master Harold" (1985), which premiered in France at the Théâtre du Rond-Point.
Jack Garfein | Career as a producer and theatre director
He returned to Broadway in 1943 to direct several plays for the Theatre Guild of New York.
Ben Iden Payne | Broadway career
Sothern travelled to America in 1852, first playing Dr. Pangloss in "The Heir at Law" in Boston, Massachusetts, with John Lacy's company at the National Theatre. He then played at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston and at Barnum's American Museum in New York. In 1854, he joined the company at Wallack's Theatre. In the early part of his career, Sothern's wife often performed with him. By 1856, he had begun using his own name, Sothern, on stage. He had become associated with Laura Keene's company in New York by 1856. He finally gained attention at Wallack's Theatre in New York starring as Armand in "Camille".
Edward Askew Sothern | Early years
Theophilus Cibber was born during the Great Storm of 1703 and began acting in the Drury Lane Theatre at the age of 16 in 1721. As a young man, Cibber was a notorious rake, and associated with young men of a similar mind and reputation, such as the Duke of Wharton. As the son of Catherine and Colley Cibber, one of the theatre's managers, Theophilus became involved in the management of Drury Lane. In 1723, he became manager of the summer season, and in 1727 became assistant manager during the regular season. In 1732, one of the managers, Barton Booth, sold his share to John Highmore, and another of the managers, Robert Wilks, fell ill and died.
Theophilus Cibber | Early life and career
His work on Broadway included "American Holiday" (1939).
Dan Tobin | Career
Henry Bronchtein was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and attended New York City Public Schools. After managing the stage crew for numerous productions in high school, he studied drama at New York University's Undergraduate Institute of Film.
Henry Bronchtein | Early life and education
In about 1808 he returned to London for the production of an opera he had written for Drury Lane, but the theatre was burnt down before the work was produced. In 1810 he was appointed organist at Sheffield Cathedral.
Jonathan Blewitt | Early career
He then played the serious role of uncle Ben Garner in "Dearer Than Life", by H. J. Byron together with Toole, Irving and Harriet Everard, in which he was praised for his "very great power", and in which role he frequently toured. This was followed by "La Vivandière", W. S. Gilbert's parody of "La fille du régiment", in which the same critic said that Brough "appears to understand thoroughly and remarkably for so young an actor the true principles of burlesque acting." The same company presented many adaptations of the novels of Charles Dickens, including "Oliver Twist" in 1868, with Brough as Bumble the beadle.
Lionel Brough | Professional career
Crawford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lester Crawford and Helen Broderick, who were both vaudeville performers, as his grandparents had been. Lester appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s. Helen Broderick had a career in Hollywood comedies, including a memorable appearance as Madge in the classic musical "Top Hat" and as Mabel Anderson in the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film "Swing Time". Young William joined his parents on the stage, working for producer Max Gordon. After graduating from preparatory high school Dean Academy (now Dean College) in Franklin, Massachusetts, Crawford was accepted by Harvard College where he enrolled.
Broderick Crawford | Early life
Right after College he went to the Hamburg University of Music and Dramatic arts for a 4 years education in acting. Since then, he also did a lot of training in Los Angeles with M. K. Lewis (Film Tech), Sam Christensen (S. Chr. Process) and Frank Betzelt, Berlin (Meisner technique). He began his professional life with the German/Swiss film "Immer & Ewig" "Always & Forever", a modern version of the Jean-Paul Sartre play "Les Jeux sont faits" "The Game is over". At the same time he also started in theaters all over Germany with plays of Shakespeare, Goethe and others.
Oliver Broumis | Biography
He began his professional career in 2006, playing Vince Fontaine/Teen Angel in the Barnyard Theatre Group's production of Grease, and has been acting in stage and musical productions since.
Jonathan Roxmouth | Career
He started writing plays at the age 41 while studying acting with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio.
George Birimisa | Early life and career
After the production closed, he starred in the title role in J. P. Marquand's "The Late George Apley". In 1947 he starred in John Van Druten's "The Druid Circle" at the Morosco Theatre.
Leo G. Carroll | Stage career
Jelks began acting at 18 while attending the City College of San Francisco, a public community college. He began his career in 1979 when he acted in his first play, "Pinocchio Jones", which also starred Cindy Herron and was performed at Balboa High School. He went on to act in several plays, not acquiring an agent until he had been performing on stage for 7 years.
John Earl Jelks | Career
Most of the things I look back at in the theater were either insignificant parts in great plays or good parts in terrible plays. So it really doesn't amount to anything. Whereas I have recorded some great books. The greatest one being the Bible."
Alexander Scourby | Early career
and Mrs. German Reed in the 1850s. With Madge Kendal and Samuel Phelps, he toured the provinces, stopping in 1866 at the Theatre Royal, Hull.
William Brough (writer) | Life and works
Encouraged by some of his teachers, he began to turn his attention to acting. He made his stage debut with the high school's dramatic society, as the juvenile in Augustin MacHugh's "The Meanest Man in the World".
Alexander Scourby | Early life
Born in Alhambra, California, Vogel began his acting career at the age of ten, appearing in stage productions of "Tom Sawyer", "Heidi", "Peter Pan" and "The Wizard of Oz". As his acting career progressed, he attended Heinz Kaiser Junior High School in Costa Mesa, California, from 1969 to 1970 and later attended Jordan Jr. High school in Burbank, California.
Mitch Vogel | Early life and career
Hatch began his theatrical career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater, as well as shows in Chicago and Off-Broadway.
Richard Hatch (actor) | Early work
In 2008 he starred in the original Broadway production opposite Stephen Bogardus, Kerry O'Malley and Meredith Patterson.
Jeffry Denman | Career
His most significant role was in the 1965 Off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which he played the role of Finch. Throughout his career, he acted alongside such theater stars as Gail Strickland, Joyce Van Patten and Diana Scarwid. He also acted in plays by Harvey Perr, Max Frisch and Seán O'Casey. His career as a stage actor encompassed continuously the 1950s, 60s and 70s in the United States. He was a member of the actors studio. He was not very fond of film acting, and acted in just four movies or feature films throughout his career, though he worked with famous actors such as Paul Newman, Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal and, in German films, Nicole Heesters and Hans-Peter Korff.
Mathew Anden | Life