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Mandy Patinkin
Actor/singer Mandy Patinkin has carved out a varied career onstage, in
films, in the recording studio and on television. He is no doubt considered
one of the major American musical theater performers of his generation.
Patinkin’s first significant appearance in a musical came with the
Public Theater's off-Broadway production of Leave It to Beaver Is Dead
(March 29, 1979). He got his big break later the same year when he was
cast as Che in the Broadway production of Evita (Sep 25, 1979), a role
that won him the Tony Award; he was featured on the original Broadway
cast album, which sold over a million copies.
In the late '70s and early '80s, Patinkin appeared in a series of non-singing
parts in films, gradually gaining more prominent roles: Last Embrace (1979);
French Postcards (1979); Night of the Juggler (1980); Ragtime (1981);
Daniel (1983); and Yentl (1983). Then he made a triumphant return to the
Broadway stage, starring in the musical Sunday in the Park with George
(May 2, 1984). Further, his performance established him as an important
interpreter of the music of Stephen Sondheim, Broadway's most respected
songwriter. Though Patinkin continued to appear in non-singing roles in
the movies, his opportunities as a singer increased in the second half
of the 1980s. He was contracted for a series of studio cast recordings
of Broadway musicals by CBS Masterworks including South Pacific (1986),
Man of La Mancha (1990), and Kismet (1991). This association led to his
being signed as a recording artist by CBS, which released his debut album
Mandy Patinkin, in 1989. He accompanied the release with his own one-man
show, Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual (July 25, 1989), which opened
at the Public Theater and transferred for a limited run on Broadway. His
second album, Dress Casual, was released the following year.
Patinkin he returned to Broadway in a big way with the successful musical
The Secret Garden (April 25, 1991), also appearing on the original Broadway
cast album. He released his third album, Experiment, in May 1994. But
his career entered a new phase when he agreed to a role on a new network
television series, playing Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on the hospital drama Chicago
Hope. The show was a hit, and Patinkin won an Emmy Award, but he left
the program early in its second season largely due to family considerations.
He returned to Chicago Hope on an occasional basis, however, even becoming
a semi-regular during the 1999-2000 season, the show's last year on the
air.
Patinkin released his fourth album, Oscar & Steve, a tribute to Oscar
Hammerstein II and Stephen Sondheim, in October 1995. His career was slowed
by eye trouble in the mid-'90s, and in 1996 he underwent a corneal transplant,
enduring a second one in 1998. Nevertheless, he managed to appear in several
films, among them Men With Guns (1997) and Elmo in Grouchland (1999) (even
getting to sing in the last). In February 1998, he released his fifth
album, Mamaloshen, which found him singing traditional and other material
in Yiddish. He returned to Broadway in the New York Shakespeare Festival's
production of The Wild Party, which earned him another Tony nomination.
~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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