1. Danny Burstein was born on June 16,1964 and is an American actor and singer.
23 Facts About Danny Burstein
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Danny Burstein was raised by his mother, Virginia, a painter, and his stepfather, Harvey Burstein, a professor of Greek philosophy.
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Danny Burstein was not raised in any particular faith and celebrated both Jewish and Christian holidays.
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Danny Burstein graduated from Queens College in New York City, during which time he obtained his first professional acting job in the chorus of The Music Man at The Muny in St Louis.
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Danny Burstein received an MFA from the graduate acting program at the University of California, San Diego in 1990.
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Danny Burstein appeared in four concerts at Carnegie Hall including: the Ira Gershwin centennial, as Steward in Sail Away, and in Candide.
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Danny Burstein played the role of Buddy Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of Follies, which ran from May 7,2011, through June 19,2011, at the Eisenhower Theater, co-starring with Bernadette Peters, Ron Raines, and Jan Maxwell.
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Danny Burstein reprised that role in the Broadway engagement of Follies at the Marquis Theatre from August 7,2011 through January 22,2012, and continued with the production in its engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California from May 3,2012, through June 9,2012.
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Danny Burstein won the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and was nominated for the Tony Award, Best Actor in a Musical.
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Danny Burstein can be heard on the cast recording of many of these musicals.
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The score originally went unrecorded in 1924 and was finally recorded by PS Classics, with Danny Burstein playing the role of Sam in 2012.
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Danny Burstein was cast in HBO's Boardwalk Empire after director Martin Scorsese saw him in South Pacific, and after auditioning for three different characters, he landed the part of Lolly Steinman.
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Danny Burstein has lent his voice in a number of video games, including Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Manhunt 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Neverwinter Nights 2.
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Danny Burstein made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Frosch in Die Fledermaus.
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Danny Burstein serves on the Artists Committee of the Kennedy Center Honors and has been a guest lecturer teaching at many universities such as Yale, NYU, Juilliard, UCSD and Queens College.
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Danny Burstein played the role of Tevye in the 2015 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, at the Broadway Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher.
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Danny Burstein appeared as Alfred P Doolittle in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center Theater from January 8,2019.
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Danny Burstein returned to the Broadway stage in the 2023 Sharr White memory play Pictures from Home alongside Nathan Lane and Zoe Wanamaker.
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Danny Burstein was married to actress Rebecca Luker from June 2000 until her death on December 23,2020.
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Danny Burstein has two sons, Alexander and Zachary, from a previous marriage, and lives in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.
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Danny Burstein was hospitalized at St Luke's in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan and recovered.
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Danny Burstein discussed his experience with the disease in a column published in The Hollywood Reporter.
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Danny Burstein wrote in August 2020 of continued challenges with his post-COVID recovery while caring for his wife, who had ALS.