Walter Bobbie
| Walter Bobbie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 18, 1945 Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Stage, film, television actor, dancer |
| Awards |
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, 1997 Chicago |
Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, 1997 Chicago
Walter Bobbie (born November 18, 1945) is an American theatre director, choreographer, and occasional actor and dancer. Bobbie has directed both musicals and plays on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and was the Artistic Director of the New York City Center Encores! concert series. He directed the long-running revival of the musical Chicago.
Bobbie was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Scranton and did graduate work at The Catholic University of America. His family was Polish Roman Catholic, and his father was a coal miner.
Bobbie explains what inspired him to work in theater: "My first Broadway show was How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, maybe in 1964. I came in to New York from college in Pennsylvania for the World's Fair...I remember sitting there -- I practically had to be held down in my seat -- and I had never seen anything like it. That day it was clear to me that I wanted to come back to New York, and theater was what I wanted to do. It was transforming the time of life and will one day grow up to become a famous director of Chicago ."
As a performer, Bobbie played "Roger" in the Broadway production of Grease in 1972. He was featured in the 1976 Broadway revival of Going Up and he also starred on Broadway as "Nicely-Nicely Johnson" in the 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.
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