Mandy Patinkin to Appear at the Colonial
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Broadway's master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Paul Ford on piano, will bring his critically acclaimed theater concert to the Colonial for one performance only on June 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $45 to $75 and can be purchased in person at the ticket office at 111 South St., weekdays from 10 to 5, performance Saturdays 10 to 2, or at 413 997-4444 or www.TheColonialTheatre.org.
Tony and Emmy Award-winner Patinkin has an extensive list of theater credits that include Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater. He won a Tony Award for his 1980 Broadway debut as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita" and was again nominated in 1984 for his starring role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Sunday in the Park With George."
He returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical "The Secret Garden" (1991), appeared as Marvin in "Falsettos" (1992) and in 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man concert, "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. Mandy’s other solo concerts, "Celebrating Sondheim" and "Mamaloshen" have been presented on Broadway, Off-Broadway and have toured the United States. His other stage credits include "The Wild Party" (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), "The Winter’s Tale," "The Knife" (Drama Desk nomination), "Leave It to Beaver is Dead," "Rebel Women," "Hamlet," "Trelawney of the 'Wells,'" "The Shadow Box" and "Henry IV, Part I."
Patinkin won a 1995 Emmy Award for his critically acclaimed performance in the CBS series "Chicago Hope," and recently starred in the CBS series "Criminal Mindsa" as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and in the Showtime Original Series "Dead Like Me" as the reaper Rube Sofer.
His other television appearances include the role of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime film "Strange Justice," playing Quasimodo opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film presentation of "The Hunchback," and a film version of Arthur Miller's "Broken Glass" for BBC/WGBH-Boston. Feature film credits include: "Everyone's Hero," "Choking Man," "Pinero," "Elmo In Grouchland," "Men with Guns," "Lulu on the Bridge," "The Princess Bride," "Yentl," "The Music of Chance," "Daniel," "Ragtime," "Impromptu," "The Doctor," "Alien Nation," "Dick Tracy," "The House on Carroll Street," "True Colors," "Maxie" and "Squanto: Indian Warrior."
Patinkin’s live performances have received wide critical acclaim. In 1989, he began his concert career at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. This coincided with the release of his first solo album titled "Mandy Patinkin." Since then he has toured extensively, appearing to sold-out audiences across the United States, Canada, London and Australia, performing songs from writers including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others.
Ford was the original pianist for the Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park with George," "Into the Woods," "Passion," "Assassins," the revival of "Pacific Overtures" and the Tony Award-winning revival of "Assassins." He was the pianist for the acclaimed Follies concert at Lincoln Center, the Carnegie Hall concert performances of "A Sondheim Tribute," "Anyone Can Whistle" and "A Little Night Music" with the Philadelphia Symphony, "Gypsy" with Patti LuPone and the Chicago Symphony, and episodes of PBS' "My Favorite Broadway," all under the baton of Paul Gemignani.
He has accompanied Patinkin in "Mandy Patinkin: Dress Casual" at the Public Theater and on Broadway in Mamaloshen and "Celebrating Sondheim," and continues to work with him on all of his recordings and national/international tours.
