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Ronn Carroll

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Actor b. 1935 On stage 19662005

Ronn Carroll is an American actor known primarily for his work on Broadway, with over twenty credits to his name. Career highlights include Oklahoma!, directed by Trevor Nunn, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Matthew Broderick, and two productions of Annie Get Your Gun with both Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters. He appeared with Tyne Daly in the 1990 revival of Gypsy. Other Broadway credits include the original casts of On Golden Pond, Crazy for You and Steel Pier. His appearances at Lincoln Center include A Man of No Importance with Roger Rees, Room Service with John Lithgow and Richard Thomas, Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb, and Carousel with John Raitt.

On stage 15 productions, 39 years

1966 Annie Get Your Gun Broadway Theatre · Revival · directed by Jack Sydow 78 perf.
1968 Promises, Promises Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Moore 1,281 perf.
1979 On Golden Pond New Apollo Theatre · Original · directed by Craig Anderson 126 perf.
1979 Peter Pan Lunt Fontanne Theatre · Revival 554 perf.
1982 Play Me a Country Song Virginia Theatre · Original · directed by Jerry Adler 1 perf.
1984 The Rink Martin Beck · Original · directed by A. J. Antoon 204 perf.
1986 The Front Page Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Jerry Zaks 57 perf.
1989 Gypsy St James Theatre · Revival · directed by Bonnie Walker 581 perf.
1992 Crazy for You Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Mike Ockrent 1,622 perf.
1994 The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public Lunt-Fontanne Theatre · Original · directed by Peter Masterson, Tommy Tune 16 perf.
1995 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Theatre not recorded · Revival 548 perf.
1997 Steel Pier Richard Rodgers Theatre · Original · directed by Scott Ellis 76 perf.
1999 Annie Get Your Gun Marquis Theatre · Revival · directed by Graciela Daniele 1,045 perf.
2002 Oklahoma! Gershwin Theatre · Revival · directed by Trevor Nunn 388 perf.
2005 A Wonderful Life Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Carl Andress 1 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Karen Ziemba 3 productions
Casey Nicholaw 3 productions
William Ryall 2 productions
Valerie Wright 2 productions
Trey Wilson 2 productions
Stephen Reed 2 productions
Scott Holmes 2 productions
Ronn Forella 2 productions
Pamela Everett 2 productions
Matt Allen 2 productions
Louise Ruck 2 productions
John Macinnis 2 productions

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. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on2 works

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed... (2011 Revival)

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Jonathan Freedmen, Victoria Clark, Luba Mason, Gerry Vichi, Lillias White, Ronn Carrollebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat, Ron Holgate, Valerie Wright, Andrew Palermo, Kevin Bailey, Ronn Carroll, Gregory Zaragoza, Cassidy Ladden, Mia Walker, Trevor McQueen Eaton, Carlos Lopez, Brad Bradley, Patrick Wetzel, Marvin Laird, Julia Fowler, Jenny-Lynn Sucklingebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Patrick Wilson, Josefina Gabrielle, Jessica Boevers, Justin Bohon, Ronn Carroll, Shuler Hensley, Aasif Mandavi, Andrea Martinebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Overall, though, it was a happy company. Often Ethel invited Jerry Orbach, Ronn Carroll, and several other cast members to her hotel room, where they would play word games well into the night. On one particular night, Yarnell tossed back one drink too many and passed out on the daybed in Ethel’s suite. To the delight of the other company…ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • That night Ethel pulled Ronn Carroll aside and urged him to telephone Benay late at night. “I don’t care what you say to her,” she whispered, “but end the conversation with, ‘Go fuck yourself!’” Then she laughed uproariously.ebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt
  • C AST : Ethel Merman (as Annie Oakley), Bruce Yarnell, Rufus Smith, Jerry Orbach, Benay Venuta, Harry Bellaver, Jaime Rogers, Jack Dabdoub, Ronn Carrollebooks/Kellow, Brian/Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow.txt

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