Tag: Ray Bolger
Tony Azito (July 18, 1948 – May 26, 1995) was a New York stage actor who most of you have never heard of because he didn’t have enough in the way of major movie roles before his untimely death from AIDS at the age of 46. I only saw Azito live twice, once in Pirates of Penzance and once in Richard Foreman’s Threepenny Opera. He was that rare combination of highly talented dancer, physical comedian, and character actor, a modern-day Ray Bolger.
Today we celebrate the birth and career of Ray Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987), vaudevillian and song & dance man best known for his portrayal of the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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Workshops & Other Events
My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin