Chapman Roberts

 

 

Chapman Roberts’ vocal arrangements and musical direction have been pivotal in a string of Broadway and West End successes, including, Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, the original productions of Eubie, Bubbling Brown Sugar (two Oliviers and the Grammy), Your Arm’s Too Short to Box with God (Tony), Blues in the Night, Five Guys Named Moe (2 Oliviers), and Playwrights Horizons’Avenue X. He was last presented on Broadway and London’s West End in the smash hit Smokey Joe’s Café (Grammy), and off-Broadway in Three Mo’ Tenors. 

 

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Playhouse Theatre (April 19, 1972 – June 11, 1972)
Edison Theatre (June 13, 1972 – October 27, 1974)
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Ambassador Theatre

 First Preview: September 14, 1978

  • Opening Date: September 20, 1978
  • Closing Date: October 7, 1979

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ANTA Playhouse

  • First Preview: February 20, 1976
  • Opening Date: March 2, 1976
  • Closing Date: December 31, 1977

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Lyceum Theatre (December 22, 1976 – November 13, 1977)
Eugene O’Neill Theatre (November 16, 1977 – January 01, 1978)
  • First Preview: December 20, 1976
  • Opening Date: December 22, 1976
  • Closing Date: January 1, 1978

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Rialto Theatre

  • First Preview:May 20, 1982
  • Opening Date:June 2, 1982
  • Closing Date:July 18, 1982

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Eugene O’Neill Theatre

  • First Preview: March 20, 1992
  • Opening Date: April 8, 1992
  • Closing Date: May 2, 1993


Avenue X premiered at Playwrights Horizons in February 1994,

winning the Richard Rodgers Award in 1992 and 1993.

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Virginia Theatre

  • First Preview: February 9, 1995
  • Opening Date: March 2, 1995
  • Closing Date: January 16, 2000

Three Mo’ Tenors

Little Shubert Theatre

1994 PBS Television Special


Three Mo’ Tenors – Let the Praise Begin / Just Come / It’s My Time to be Blessed

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

Website(s)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Ricardo_Shields [Career]