Theater Actor

Paul Jabara (January 31, 1948 – September 29 1992) was an American actor,singer and songwriter. Jabara was in the original cast of the stage musical Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar As well as taking over the role of Frank-N-Furter in the Los Angeles Production of The Rocky Horror Show when Tim Curry left the production to film the movie version in England. He released his first album Shut Out in 1977. He is best known, however, for writing Donna Summer's Oscar and Grammy Award-winning hit ...

William Gaxton (December 2, 1893-February 2, 1963), born Arturo Antonio Gaxiola in San Francisco, California, was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre. He appeared in some ten films and eleven shows. Gaxton debuted on Broadway in the Music Box Revue(October 23 1922), and went on to star in such hits as Rogers and Hart's A Connecticut Yankee (1927), singing "Thou Swell", Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), singing "You Do Something to Me", Of Thee I Sing (1933) with Victor Moore,...

Robert Morse (born May 18, 1931, Newton, Massachusetts) is an American actor. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and plays on Broadway, and has also acted in movies and TV shows. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War. Morse created the role of Barnaby in The Matchmaker on Broadway in 1955 opposite Ruth Gordon and reprised the role in the 1958 film adaptation, this time opposite Shirley Booth. That same year he won the Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony...

John Arthur Lithgow (pronounced "lith-go"; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He has also achieved success on stage, film, and radio. He has earned multiple Emmy Award and Tony Award, as well as two Oscar nominations. He has also recorded music for children. Lithgow was born in Rochester, New York. His mother, Sarah Jane (née Price), was a retired actress, and his father, Arthur...

Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is an American Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning actor, playwright, and screenwriter. Fierstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacqueline Harriet (née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a handkerchief manufacturer. He is Jew. The gravelly-voiced actor perhaps is known best for the play and film Torch Song Trilogy, which he wrote and starred in. The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Award, for Best Play and...

Sutton Foster (born March 18 1975) is a Tony Award-winning American actress, singer, and dancer. Her brother, Hunter Foster, is also a Tony-nominated actor. Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia and raised in Troy, Michigan. At the age of fifteen, she was a contestant on the television show Star Search and also auditioned for the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. She left Troy High School, where she had been active in the Troy Theatre Ensemble, before her senior year (she received her diploma...

David Shiner (born September 13 1953) is an American clown and actor. Shiner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Shiner, a computer programmer, and a homemaker mother. The lanky Shiner, usually donning a small dunce cap, started as a street mime, first in Colorado, and later in France and Germany. He managed to get multiple gigs with various circuses, including performances with the German Circus Roncalli and the Swiss National Circus ("Circus Knie"). In between he toured...

Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1940) is a Tony Award-winning American musical theater dancer, singer. actress and choreographer. She is perhaps best known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated on her most famous role, "Cassie" from the musical A Chorus Line. McKechnie was born in Pontiac, Michigan. She took beginner ballet classes at age five. Her earliest influence was the classic British ballet film The Red Shoes ...

The Andrews Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters LaVerne Sophie Andrews (contralto; July 6, 1911–May 8, 1967), Maxene Angelyn Andrews (soprano; January 3, 1916–October 21, 1995), and Patricia Marie (a.k.a. Patty) Andrews (lead; born February 16, 1918). All were born in Minnesota to a Greek immigrant father and a Norwegian American mother. Patty, the youngest and the lead singer of the group, was only seven when the group was formed, and just twelve years old when...

Raúl Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is a Cuba-American stage actor. Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He first drew attention with his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show, which won him the Theatre World Award. The following year he appeared off-Broadway in tick, tick... BOOM! by Jonathan...

Bob Martin is a comedian/actor/writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been in many TV shows and has written many TV shows.He also provides the voice of Cuddles the comfort doll on the Canadian TV show Puppets Who Kill aired on the Comedy Network. He most recently starred in the Broadway success The Drowsy Chaperone as the Man in Chair. He also collaborated with Don McKellar on the book. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance as Man in Chair, and won a Tony Award with Don...

Charles "Chuck" Cissel is an American singer and dancer. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He received his BA from the University of Oklahoma, and was one of the first African American to graduate from the university's fine arts school. He is now the CEO of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, which is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his early 20's Chuck performed in the Broadway musical A Chorus Line, back when Broadway was starting to open up its...

Janis Paige (b. Donna Mae Tjaden, September 16, 1922, Tacoma, Washington) is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. She began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows. She then moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school and then got a job as a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II. The Canteen, which was a studio-sponsored gathering spot for servicemen, is where Warner Bros. saw her potential and signed her up. She began her...

Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948, in Washington, D.C.) is an American film and television actress. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is probably best known as Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, on which she appeared from 1972 until the show ended in 1977. The role won her two Emmy nominations. After that series ended, she teamed up with former Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star Betty White for The Betty White Show during its first and only ...