Dean Jones

On stage 5 productions, 33 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

• March 23, 1970. Shubert Theatre, Boston. The first preview and world premiere of Company. Dean Jones is playing Bobby, the uncommitted but not-so-confirmed bachelor. During the evening we’ve seen him with his good and crazy married friends, his on-again/off-again girlfriends, and his one-night stands.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• After Larry Kert took over for Dean Jones in Company, the replacement got the Tony nomination, but when Kaye took over for Kahn, the original got the nomination. Kaye admits, “I was disappointed. I thought there was at least an outside chance they’d give it to me. But who knows what goes on in those nominating rooms? However, considering…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Cast: Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, John Cunningham, Charles Kimbrough, Donna McKechnie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, Steve Elmore, Beth Howland, Pamela Myers, Merle Louiseebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Because of illness, Dean Jones, the original Robert, was replaced by Larry Kert within a month after the Broadway opening. During the run, Elaine Stritch, as a middle-aged guzzler who has the sardonic show-stopper “The Ladies who Lunch,” was succeeded by Jane Russell and Vivian Blaine. The show’s year-long tour had a cast headed by George…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Bad Move : Dean Jones was for a time a movie leading man, especially in Disney pictures. Then he got fundamentalist religion. He also got the lead in Stephen Sondheim’s innovative, stunning musical Company (1970). Jones played Bobby, the single guy surrounded by married friends urging him to wed. Over the years, the rumor persists that Bo…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• The star of the show, Dean Jones (Robert), became despondent soon after the show opened in Boston. Although he appeared to be physically ill, Prince suspected that his problem was psychosomatic. Jones was going through his own divorce at the time and felt that the show was anti-marriage, "perhaps because," said Jones, "at the time I was a…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt

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