Michael Rupert

On stage 8 productions, 42 years

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Worked with more than once9 names

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Also credited on1 work

The Happy Time

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In the literature8 passages

• Michael Rupert was a mere sixteen years of age when he portrayed Robert Goulet’s nephew in The Happy Time. Director-choreographer Gower Champion had originally chosen him for the chorus. But during rehearsals, when the young man whom Champion had chosen wasn’t working out, he pressed Rupert, then only fifteen, into service.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Even in the much clearer version, Finn’s work could be hard to interpret. Michael Rupert, who played the bisexual Marvin, says, “We all asked Bill what ‘March of the Falsettos’ meant and he’d never get any more specific than ‘It’s about sexuality.’ The rest of us decided that the falsetto voice is an ‘outsider’s’ voice, and that’s what we…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• ————. “If You Leave Me Now” cut from The Happy Time; heard on Lost in Boston with Michael Rupert, Liz Calloway, and various artists. Cond. James Stenborg. Jacket notes Steven Suskin. Varèse Sarabande compact disc, VSD-5564, 1995.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• Cast: Debbie Allen, Michael Rupert, Bebe Neuwirth, Allison Williams, Lee Wilkof, Mark Jacoby, Irving Allen Leeebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Cast: Michael Rupert, Stephen Bogardus, Chip Zien, Barbara Walsh, Heather MacRae, Carrolee Carmello, Jonathan Kaplan, Andrew Harrison Leedsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Falsettos takes place from 1979 to 1981 and is a story of neurotic, bisexual Marvin (Michael Rupert), who leaves his wife Trina (Barbara Walsh) and son Jason (Jonathan Kaplan) to have a life with his friend Wizzer (Stephen Bogardus). Later, Trina marries Marvin’s psychiatrist (Chip Zien). Wizzer leaves Marvin, then they reconcile. As Wizz…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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