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Cast
Creative Team
Special Thanks
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Brian Charles Rooney
Kelly Lee - The Host
Brian recently won the Connecticut Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical (2009-2010) for his portrayal of Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling in the world premiere of, "Pop!," at Yale Repertory Theater. In a performance that Entertainment Weekly said "ignited the stage," he made his Broadway debut as the fabled Lucy Brown in The Roundabout Theater Company's 2006 revival of "The Threepenny Opera." In 2008, The New York Musical Theater Festival honored him with the "Outstanding Performance Award" for his portrayal of comic pop-star Dionne Salon in the hit new musical "Bedbugs!!!" In Manhattan, he has performed in concert at The Zipper Theater & Joe's Pub, as well as in numerous plays & musicals, including Piers Gaveston in "Edward the King" (Off-Broadway for The Barrow Group); Deacon Jones in "The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde" (NYMF). Other credits include: Tony in "West Side Story" (European Tour); Featured Soloist in "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" (North American Tour, co-starring Petula Clark); Homer in "Floyd Colling" (Actors' Playhouse, Miami; Carnbonell Award Nomination); the title role in "Bat Boy! The Musical" (Charleston Stage Co.); Younger Brother in "Ragtime" (White Plains Performing Arts Center); "The Student Prince" (Paper Mill Playhouse). In 2007, he was awarded the "Lys Symonette Award for Outstanding Dramatic Excellence" by the Kurt Weill Foundation, and has sung with the Seattle Symphony and Oregon Symphony Orchestras.
Learn more about Brian at briancharlesrooney.com.
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