03/30/08

See Michael in "Legally Blonde the Musical"  Apr. 29, 2007 - Aug. 31, 2008 at The Palace Theatre, 1564 Broadway, NY    Check the "Calendar" page for additional information and upcoming events.

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Michael Rupert won both a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for his work in the revival of Sweet Charity. He created the role of Marvin in March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. Other Broadway appearances have been in The Happy Time, Pippin, and City of Angels. Regionally he has played in Damn Yankees, Troupers, Working, and Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

He has made his debut as a composer with 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down (Drama Desk nomination), and Strange Vacation and the upcoming Streets of America. He wrote the score and starred in the musical Mail at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Kennedy Center, and on Broadway.

Michael made his Off-Broadway directing debut with The Lunch Anxieties. Off-Off-Broadway he directed City for The Filling Station and two one-acts for The Threshold Theatre Company's Caught In The Act at HERE. As an actor, he appeared on Broadway in Falsettos (Tony nomination), City of Angels, Mail, Sweet Charity (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Shakespeare's Cabaret, Pippin, and The Happy Time (Tony nomination).

Off-Broadway he has performed in: Elegies: A Song Cycle, Putting It Together, Falsettoland, March of the Falsettos, Ancient History, Festival, and Fragile: Handle With Care. Mr. Rupert's regional credits include: Charles Strouse's Real Men, Baby (20th Anniversary Cast at Paper Mill Playhouse), Life (x) 3, Adrift In Macao, Breaking and Entering, Merchant of Venice, In the Blue Room, Avow, Relativity, Brecht: Sacred and Profane, and Play With Fire.

Recent workshops/readings include Terrence McNally's new play Some Men and a new musical by Robert L. Freeman & Steven Lutvak entitled Campaign Of The Century.

On television he has had roles in: Law & Order, New York Undercover, All My Children, Big Brother Jake, Cheers, Outrage (Movie of the Week), No Place to Hide (Movie of the Week), Short Walk to Daylight (Movie of the Week), Alice, The Walton's, and One Life to Live.