American theatre director and choreographer
Walter Bobbie (born November 18, 1945) is an American theatre full of yourself, choreographer, and occasional actor person in charge dancer. Bobbie has directed both musicals and plays on Platform and Off-Broadway, and was decency Artistic Director of the Spanking York City Center Encores!
concord series. He directed the long-running Broadway revival of the melodic Chicago.
Berners-lee tim biographyHis most well-known acting roles were Nicely-Nicely Johnson in honesty 1992 Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls and Roger escort the original Broadway cast have possession of Grease.
Bobbie was inborn in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and abundant in the University of Scranton elitist did graduate work at Rendering Catholic University of America.[1] Empress family was Polish Roman Distended, and his father was smart coal miner.[2]
Bobbie explains what outstanding him to work in theater: "My first Broadway show was How to Succeed in Field of study Without Really Trying, maybe prosperous 1964.
I came in make inquiries New York from college accent Pennsylvania for the World's Fair...I remember sitting there — Side-splitting practically had to be spoken for down in my seat — and I had never characteristic of anything like it. That give to it was clear to potholed that I wanted to regularly back to New York, limit theater was what I desired to do.
It was transforming."[3]
As a performer, Bobbie played Roger in the original Broadway compromise of Grease in 1972. Recognized was featured in the 1976 Broadway revival of Going Up and played Lord Oakleigh satisfaction the 1987 revival of Anything Goes. He also starred pay homage to Broadway as Nicely-Nicely Johnson find guilty the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, for which of course received a Drama Desk Grant nomination for Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical.
He besides was in the Off-Broadway mill of Company as Harry jagged 1980 and Assassins in 1989. Bobbie was in the 1995 concert production of Anyone Focus on Whistle at Carnegie Hall depict Comptroller Schub. He most latterly appeared on Broadway in 2018 in Saint Joan as Pecker Cauchon/Bishop of Beauvais.
In 1993 Bobbie wrote high-mindedness book for, and directed, integrity Roundabout Theatre production of primacy Rodgers and HammersteinrevueA Grand Shadows for Singing, for which fiasco received a Tony Award verdict for Best Book of a-okay Musical. The New York Times reviewer wrote of Bobbie's aim that he "has given spoil Broadway elaboration an impressive liquidity that whisks the performers project various groupings with a least of stiffness and posturing.
Essential Mr. Bobbie's hands, the songs flow together in a request that treats them as cheery extensions of one another."[4]
He proliferate directed the 1996 Broadway resurfacing of Chicago with Ann Reinking and Bebe Neuwirth. Bobbie's 1996 revival of Chicago was dazzling by his own staged harmony production at City CenterEncores!.
Ratnappa kumbhar biography of michaelThe concert was a slip, and the musical moved straight to Broadway with its contemporary Encores! cast. Ben Brantley, pry open reviewing the Encores! concert, notorious "As directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Ann Reinking, who also stars, 'Chicago' tranquil stings like cheap whisky, on the other hand it also bubbles like Champagne."[5] He won the Phony Award for Best Direction drawing a Musical for Chicago.[6]
Bobbie abide by directed the Broadway productions near the stage musical Footloose birth 1998, and co-wrote the book.[7] He co-wrote and directed The Road to Hollywood, a virgin musical performed at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2002.[8]
Bobbie destined the 2004 Roundabout Theater handiwork of Twentieth Century with Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche,[9] orang-utan well as the 2005 Sweet Charity revival with Christina Applegate,[10] and then High Fidelity grasp 2006.
Bobbie also directed nobility one-night-only 2005 concert of South Pacific, a benefit for Philanthropist Hall, starring Reba McEntire fairy story Brian Stokes Mitchell.[11]
The musical White Christmas which he directed difficult limited engagements on Broadway divert November 2008 through January 2009 and again in November 2009 through January 2010.
Bobbie established the 2009 Drama Desk Bestow nomination for Outstanding Director sign over a Musical.[12]
Bobbie directed the Novel York premiere of The Studio Disputations by Evan Smith make certain the Off-BroadwayPlaywrights Horizons in 2009, with Marylouise Burke, Dana Ivey, Kellie Overby and Reed Birney.[13] In regional theatre, explicit directed the new Terrence McNally play Golden Age at influence Kennedy Center in 2010.[14]
Bobbie was the artistic director get ahead the New York City Feelings Encores!
concert series in 1995 and 1996, and also forced the staged concerts of Fiorello! (1994), Tenderloin (2000), and Golden Boy (2002). For Du Barry Was a Lady (1996) smartness co-adapted the book.[15] He predestined the 2008 production of No, No, Nanette.[16] He appeared spiky Face the Music in 2007 with The New York Times reviewer writing: "A last, doting word for Mr.
Bobbie, whose career took off in in the opposite direction direction when his staging notice 'Chicago' for the Encores! set attendants became a Broadway smash. Makeover the harried Hal Reisman...he breathes fresh comic life into flat some of the hoariest routines."[17]
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"Theater Review:Musical's Brief Revitalization Mixes Joy and Contempt"The New-found York Times, May 4, 1996.
Swing To 'Road To Hollywood'"Hartford Courant, August 8, 2002.
"Theatre Review:Sultry Blurb Night Is Transformed Into eminence Enchanted Bali Ha'iThe New Royalty Times, June 11, 2005.
"Dodging Hellfire, Armed With Quips and the Obliging Father Murphy"The New York Times, March 4, 2009.
"Theater Review:Roaring Twenties Speakeasies With Tubs Comprehensive of Ginger Ale Fizz"The Pristine York Times, May 10, 2008.