Known to be an able provider of topical joke material for Academy Award
hosts (notably Billy Crystal). Also for comedy personalities on the
road such as Bette Midler.
"Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw
Ethel Merman doing step aerobics. The real culprit in all this
is not even the costume designer but the choreographer, that malicious
spawn of Gwen Verdon and Satan." -- commenting on his strenuous
undertaking in the tour of "Hairspray".
ट्रेडमार्क
Wild, blonde-gray locks, thick red glasses and gay-suggestive tee-shirts
