Michael Rupert
| Michael Rupert | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael John Rupert October 23, 1951 Denver, Colorado USA |
| Occupation | Actor, singer, composer, director |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Partner(s) | Will Chafin |
Michael John Rupert (born October 23, 1951, Denver, Colorado ) is an American actor, singer, director and composer. Rupert originated the role of "Marvin" in the William Finn musicals March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Rupert was adopted as an infant, and his family moved to California when he was young. Rupert wanted to be an actor and started working at age 12 at the Pasadena Playhouse in King of Hearts. Rupert made his Broadway debut in 1968 in Kander and Ebb's The Happy Time as the young Bibi Bonnard, which earned him his first Tony Award nomination, for Featured Actor in a Musical. He returned to California after The Happy Time, and appeared in local theater while in high school.
In 1974, Rupert returned to Broadway as a replacement in the role of Pippin. In 1981, he appeared on Broadway in Shakespeare's Cabaret. He then created the role of Marvin in two William Finn musicals, March of the Falsettos (1981) at the Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons and Falsettoland (1991, initially at Playwrights Horizons). In 1986 he appeared as Oscar in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, for which he won the 1986 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. He played Alex in the musical Mail, which ran on Broadway from March 1988 to May 1988 and for which he composed the music with book and lyrics by Jerry Colker. He was a replacement in the role of Stine in City of Angels in 1991, played Marvin again in Falsettos in 1992, and was in Ragtime as a replacement Tateh. In 2003, he performed with Betty Buckley, Christian Borle, Carolee Carmello and Keith Bryon Kirk in the Lincoln Center staging of William Finn's Elegies: A Song Cycle. He originated the role of Professor Callahan in Legally Blonde (2007) on Broadway and on the National tour, starting in February 2010. He appeared in the play 7th Monarch Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theater, opening in June 2012. He appeared in the Broadway revival of On the Town as Judge Pitkin, which ran from October 2014 to September 2015.
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