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ACTOR • SINGER


• HBO: Cathouse the Musical
• Forbidden Broadway, (original NY + Boston, with national television appearances)
• Miss Gulch Returns!, one-man show, national press (NY, Boston, Chicago, many cities)
• Cy Coleman's Lawyers, Lovers & Lunatics ("Judge Meltzer," Pat Birch, Director, Parker Playhouse, Forum Theatre)
• The Two Svengalis, a new musical with Toni DiBuono (NYC)
• Annie (Bert Healey, Austin Musical Theatre, with Ruth Williamson)
• Tomfoolery (Delaware Theatre Company with Michael McGrath)
 I Love My Wife (Theatre By The Sea, with Michael McGrath)
• The Wizard Of Oz (Theatre By The Sea, Wicked Witch/Miss Gulch)
• Sydney Cabaret Convention (Host)
• New York Cabaret Convention (Featured Performer)
• Tonight ShowToday ShowEntertainment TonightMerv Griffin Show, numerous Radio & Cabaret appearances


Acting: Milton Katselas
Dance: Luigi, Tap with Bob Audy, Pat Rico, Henry LeTang, Rhythm Tap with Bettye Morrow
Voice: Dr. David Fairchild, Carmine Gagliardi

Fred Barton performs "Pour Me A Man"
from his show "Miss Gulch Returns!"

CATHOUSE: THE MUSICAL
(HBO, Sheila Nevins & Patti Kaplan, Producer & Director)
I appeared as myself and as Singer & Musical Director of this one-hour special, featuring the ladies of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Reno, Nevada. HBO continues to broadcast the show, and it's in release on DVD.

LAWYERS, LOVERS, & LUNATICS
(Patricia Birch  Director/Choreographer, Cy Coleman, Composer)
I played an irascible judge prone to bribes, leading the opening number, "A Man Of The People." The judge's bench hid a piano, from which I led the band while furiously controlling a chaotic courtroom. Act 2 gave me a cane-and-tap duet with Susan Mansur (Doatsey Mae in Best Little Whorehouse In Texas.) This was the second Cy Coleman show with musicians built into the cast and scenery – the first was I Love My Wife, in which I played a host of roles at Theatre By The Sea, with Michael McGrath.

ANNIE 
(Austin Musical Theatre, Scott ThompsonDirector/Choreographer)
I played Bert Healey, the excitable radio host, leading the cast in "You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile." The production starred Ruth Williamson and earned three-quarters of a million at the box office.


TOMFOOLERY
(Delaware Theatre Company, Derek WolshanakDirector/Choreographer)
I brought down the house with Tom Lehrer's "The Elements," and got the 11:00 spot warbling "I Hold Your Hand In Mine" (with a candelabra flown in for the occasion). I grew up on Lehrer's records, had sung his material since I was ten, and sat at his feet when he performed at a John Kerry fund-raiser at the house next door when I was thirteen, so Tomfoolery was in the cards.


MISS GULCH RETURNS!
Visit the MISS GULCH RETURNS site more on my internationally acclaimed one-man show.

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY
(Original Cast, NY)
I had various solo turns in successive editions. First edition: "Too Many Sondheims," to the tune of "Too Many Mornings" from Follies, bemoaning the proliferation of Sondheim imitators. Second edition: "I'm Sick Of Playing Their Songs," based on my audition experiences with a few ornery actors. Third edition: I impersonated Stephen Sondheim, commenting on Sunday In The Park With George by singing "Send In The Crowds."


THEATRE BY THE SEA 
Theatre-by-the-Sea Cabaret
(1977-1981)
"The Wizard of Oz"
I was one of producer Tommy Brent's discoveries (Tovah Feldshuh and Cherry Jones are among numerous others). I played The Wicked Witch in The Wizard Of Oz (launching my long association with the Miss Gulch persona), the mordant Master Of Ceremonies in Chicago, a series of quick-change roles in I Love My Wife with Michael McGrath, the Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland with Rebecca Spencer, and Bert in Mary Poppins with Susan Scannell (we were way ahead of the Brits on that one). My career as a cabaret performer was born in the Cabaret at Theatre By The Sea.






HARVARD
"Two Gentlemen of Verona"
"Superman" 
I debuted as Launce in the musical Two Gentlemen Of Verona (directed by Andy Cadiff), getting high marks from its visiting author, John Guare. I played second banana in Andy Borowitz's Gars & Goyles (written/directed by the future Hollywood producer and national columnist), terrorized Superman as mad professor Dr. Abner Sedgwick in Strouse & Adams' It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman (also directed by Borowitz), and played the Fred Astaire role in a revival of Lady, Be Good.

"Lady Be Good" (Laura Hastings)


Even in High School, I emulated Mickey & Judy with a succession of divas (see below). I've been fortunate with my divas, from the high school triumvirate including Susan Scannell, to Nora Mae LyngElena Bennett, and Toni DiBuono. A personal diva—don't leave home without one.
Susan Scannell
Gail Cerulli
Karin Winnard
Elena Bennett, at Eighty-Eights
("A Wrinkle in Swingtime")
Toni DiBuono
("The Two Svengalis")
 
Nora Mae Lyng
("Forbidden Broadway")