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Rene Auberjonois

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Actor 1940–2019 On stage 19682004

René Marie Murat Auberjonois ( rə-NAY oh-BAIR-zhən-WAH; June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor. He was a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner, and a three-time Emmy Award (two Primetime, one Daytime) nominee, among other accolades. He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River. In 2018, A…

On stage 13 productions, 36 years

1968 A Cry of Players Vivian Beaumont Theater · Original · directed by Gene Frankel 72 perf.
1968 King Lear Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Gerald Freedman 72 perf.
1969 Coco Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Benthall 332 perf.
1969 Fire! Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Charles Werner Moore 6 perf.
1972 Twelfth Night Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Ellis Rabb 44 perf.
1973 The Good Doctor Eugene Oneill Theatre · Original · directed by A. J. Antoon 208 perf.
1973 Tricks Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Jon Jory 8 perf.
1979 Break a Leg Palace Theatre · Original · directed by Charles Nelson Reilly 1 perf.
1985 Big River Eugene O'Neill Theatre · Original · directed by Des McAnuff 1,005 perf.
1989 City of Angels Virginia Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Blakemore 878 perf.
1989 Metamorphosis Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original 97 perf.
2002 Dance of the Vampires Minskoff Theatre · Original · directed by John Rando 56 perf.
2004 Sly Fox Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Revival · directed by Arthur Penn 173 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Ren Auberjonois 8 productions
Robert Phalen 3 productions
William Myers 2 productions
Virgilia Chew 2 productions
Tom Sawyer 2 productions
Susan Tyrrell 2 productions
Stephen Elliott 2 productions
Samual Blue Jr 2 productions
Ruth Attaway 2 productions
Ronald Weyand 2 productions
Robert Molock 2 productions
Robert Levine 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Rene Auberjonois, Reathal Bean, Susan Browning, Patti Cohenour, Gordon Connell, Bob Gunton, Daniel H. Jenkins, Ron Richardsonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: James Naughton, Gregg Edelman, Randy Graff, Dee Hoty, Kay McClelland, Rene Auberjonoisebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Tricks was based on La Fourberies de Scapin by Molière , and it had music by Jerry Blatt, who was also writing for Bette Midler at the time. Rene Auberjonois played Scapin, and I was his second banana, Sylvestre. At one point during the show, I walked into the middle of the audience, and started walking on the backs of seats. That was a l…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
  • “Coco” in which Katharine Hepburn made her musi‘cal debut and Rene Auberjonois earned a Tony | Award. “1776” was the New York Drama Critics Circle and Tony winner. There were welcomed revivals of “The Front Page,” “Our Town,” “Three | Mentheatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • King Lear, with (1. to r.J Janis Young, Clement Fowler, and Rene Auberjonois in the title role, Pittsburgh, 1965. [Courtesy of American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, Calif.]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S).txt
  • Charley's Aunt, with Ellen Geer, Rene Auberjonois, and Charlene Polite. San Francisco, Marines' Memorial Theatre, 1966. [Courtesy of American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, Calif. Photograph by Hank Kranzler]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 5 (T-Z).txt

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