Fred Applegate (actor)
| Fred Applegate | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 20, 1953 |
| Occupation | Actor, singer, dancer |
Frederick Applegate (born February 20, 1953) is an American actor, singer and dancer.
He grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and South Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Northwestern University.
Applegate originated the roles of Inspector Kemp and The Blind Hermit in the Broadway musical Young Frankenstein (2007). He originated the role of the Monsignor in the Broadway production of Sister Act (2011) and the role of Father Jack O'Brien in the The Last Ship, which premiered on Broadway in October 2014.
Other Broadway credits include M. Dindon/M. Renaud in La Cage aux Folles (2010), in The Producers (replacement, 2003; in the West End production in 2005) and as Franz Leibkind in the first national tour. He also played Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music. (1998).
He appeared Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theatre in the musical Happiness in 2009, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman. Applegate played the role of "Panisse" in the Encores! staged concert of Fanny in February 2010. He participated in a reading of a new musical, Presto Change-O in December 2014, directed by Marc Bruni, as a presentation of the Barrington Stage Company Musical Theatre Lab. He appeared in the national tour of Anything Goes, as "Moonface Martin", which started in October 2012.
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