Ron Raines On How GL Prepared Him for NEWSIES

Ron Raines On How Guiding Light Prepared Him For Newsies and Why He Still ...
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Ron Raines On How Guiding Light Prepared Him For Newsies and Why He Still Loves Follies. The former soap star dishes on why he loves being a bad guy on Broadway. By Brian Scott Lipton · Google+ Profile for Brian Scott Lipton • Oct 24, 2012 • New York .

Ron Raines Interview on Broadway World TV

Ron Raines and Kelli O'Hara in Essential Voices Release

Broadway veterans Kelli O'Hara -- currently starring on Broadway in Nice Work If You Can Get It -- and Ron Raines -- who is about to begin performances in Broadway's Newsies -- will be featured on the new CD, Celebrating the American Spirit, due out on October 23.
The disc is performed by Essential Voices USA and conducted by Judith Clurman. The centerpiece is Sing Out, Mr. President, a song cycle of sixteen newly commissioned compositions set to quotations by American presidents from Washington to Obama that showcases American composers Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Robert Beaser, Jason Robert Brown, Thomas Cabaniss, Jake Heggie, Larry Hochman, Michael Gilbertson, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, Andrew Lippa, David Ludwig, Paul Moravec, Nico Muhly, Georgia Stitt, Zachary Wadsworth, and Jesse Wiener.
The CD also features new and newly arranged works by composers and writers such as Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Harnick, Jennifer Higdon, Larry Hochman, Laurie Hochman, David Ludwig, Stephen Paulus, Marc Shaiman, and John Philip Sousa.

Pre-orders for the disc are now being taken at www.sonoluminus.com .

Ron Raines to Return to Broadway

 

Ron Raines and Gina Tognoni at the 2011 Broadway Flea Market

Ron Raines will return to Broadway on October 9th in the Disney hit musical Newsies. Ron will fill in for John Dossett for nine weeks as Joseph Pulitzer while Dossett appears in a play in New York City. Ron finished his run as Ben Stone in Follies back in June after being nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical.  His run in Follies began in May of 2011 in Washington D.C. After critical acclaim the show moved to the Broadway stage in August of 2001 where it ran until January of 2012, before heading to LA for a limited run.

Raines began his career on stage and never imagined he's wind up playing "Alan Spaulding" for 15 years on Guiding Light. In addition to Follies and Newsies Ron has appeared in Broadway in Chicago, Showboat and Teddy and Alice.

Sorry About Not keeping up!

My apologies for not updating this page. When I noted the number of visitors this morning I got to thinking that maybe there still is interest in the blog. With that being said I will do my best to get back to it!

Weekly Alumni Feature #4 Ron Raines

In honor of Ron Raines' return to Broadway in Follies I have chosen him as this week's Guiding Light Alumni Feature. Ron took over the role of Alan Spaulding the summer of 1994, replacing the very popular Chris Bernau. Guiding Light was Ron's first television role. Prior to his GL debut Ron played many of American Musical Theater's leading men across the country including Don Quixote, Emile De Becque and Benjamin Stone. During his work on GL Ron played Billy Flynn in the Broadway production of Chicago!

Yesterday, Ron returned to Broadway in the Stephen Sondheim production Follies at the Marquis Theater.
Visit Ron Raines Online for more information on Ron's career and on how to buy your tickets to Follies.

Weekly Alumni Feature-Jay Hammer

Guiding Light fans will remember Jay Hammer for his role as Fletcher Reade, but if you go a few more years back you may recall a young Hammer as the next door neighbor's son on The Jeffersons. Yes that's right, Jay played the mixed race son of the Willis'--Allan Willis.

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