Michael Rupert won a Tony for his performance in Sweet Charity in 1986.
16 Facts About Michael Rupert
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At 16 years old, Michael Rupert made his Broadway debut in 1968 in Kander and Ebb's The Happy Time as the young Bibi Bonnard.
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Michael Rupert's performance earned him the 1968 Theater World Award and his first Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Musical.
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At the 22nd Tony Awards, Michael Rupert performed "The Happy Time" and "A Certain Girl" from The Happy Time alongside his castmates Robert Goulet and David Wayne.
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Michael Rupert returned to California after The Happy Time, and appeared in local theater while in high school.
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Michael Rupert returned to Broadway in 1974 as a replacement in the role of Pippin.
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When March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland were performed together under the name Falsettos in 1992, Michael Rupert played the role of Marvin, for which he received a nomination for the 1992 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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Michael Rupert was a replacement in the role of Stine in City of Angels in 1989 and was in Ragtime as a replacement Tateh in 1999.
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Michael Rupert originated the role of Professor Callahan in Legally Blonde on Broadway and returned to the role on the National tour, starting in February 2010.
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Michael Rupert appeared as Kenneth Sharpe in the play 7th Monarch Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theater, opening in June 2012.
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Michael Rupert appeared in the Broadway revival of On the Town as Judge Pitkin, which ran from October 2014 to September 2015.
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In 1997, Michael Rupert directed an Off-Broadway production of the The Lunch Anxieties by Larry Kunofsky at the Harold Clurman Theatre.
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Michael Rupert directed J Arlington Meyrelles III's musical, The Stars In Your Eyes, in an Equity workshop production in 1998.
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Michael Rupert composed the music, with book and lyrics by Jerry Colker, to the 1985 Off-Broadway music 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down, which won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book and was nominated for Outstanding Music.
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Michael Rupert wrote the score to Strange Vacation and collaborated with Allan Heinberg.
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Michael Rupert composed the score and co-wrote the book and lyrics with Matthew Riopelle for the musical Streets of America.