Press Resources
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Biography
Ron Raines, a 2012 Tony and Grammy Award nominee for the acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies which he starred in opposite Bernadette Peters. Ron has also starred on Broadway as Daddy Warbucks in Annie with Faith Prince, Joseph Pulitzer in Newsies, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat, and Nick Longworth in Teddy & Alice. Ron has also delighted audiences around the country in A Little Night Music opposite Leslie Uggams, Amy Irving, Christine Ebersole, and Cleo Laine; The Unsinkable Molly Brown opposite Debbie Reynolds, Can Can opposite Chita Rivera, Merry Widow with Roberta Peters, South Pacific, Rose Marie, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Side by Side by Sondheim,Guys and Dolls, Candide, Regina and Man of LaMancha which he did at the Covent Garden Festival in London and recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios. He has been a soloist with over 60 major American and international orchestras, including the Boston Pops with John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Marvin Hamlisch, the Philly Pops with Peter Nero, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, and the summer of 2018 with Gewandhaus of Leipzig, Germany. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and London’s Palladium and their Royal Festival Hall. He has appeared on four PBS “Great Performances,” and has recorded numerous cast albums as well as two solo CDs on the Jay Records label. Born in Texas City, Texas and raised throughout East Texas, Ron graduated from Oklahoma City University and later attended The Juilliard School. He was a three-time Emmy nominee for his role as the nefarious Alan Spaulding on CBS’s longest running daytime drama Guiding Light. Ron has appeared on CBS prime time in The Good Wife, Elementary, Person of Interest.
He lives in New York City with his wife Dona and daughter Charlotte.
(ronrainesonline.com)
Revised October 2018
Credits
TV: "Guiding Light " (3 Emmy Nominations); PBS:"My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs," "Ira Gerschwin at 100," "The Rodgers and Hart Story:Thou Swell,Thou Witty," and "An Evening With the Pops." Guest Roles: Person of Interest as Bruce Wellington, 2013; Elementary as Ian, 2014
Broadway / NY: Follies (Tony Award nomination); Chicago; Show Boat; Teddy and Alice, Follies; Olympus On My Mind ; Oh,Lady! Lady!; A Little Night Music. Regionally - Annie; Kismet; Kiss Me, Kate; The King and I; South Pacific; Brigadoon; Oklahoma!; Carousel; Side By Side By Sondheim; The Man of La Mancha.
More than 50 symphonies including the Boston Pops,Chicago,Cleveland,San Francisco,Israeli Philharmonic, BBC, Royal Philharmonic.
Recordings: Man of La Mancha, Follies, The Pajama Game, 110 in the Shade, and more.
Webseries: Beacon Hill, One Life to Live
Ron Raines, a 2012 Tony and Grammy Award nominee for the acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies which he starred in opposite Bernadette Peters. Ron has also starred on Broadway as Daddy Warbucks in Annie with Faith Prince, Joseph Pulitzer in Newsies, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat, and Nick Longworth in Teddy & Alice. Ron has also delighted audiences around the country in A Little Night Music opposite Leslie Uggams, Amy Irving, Christine Ebersole, and Cleo Laine; The Unsinkable Molly Brown opposite Debbie Reynolds, Can Can opposite Chita Rivera, Merry Widow with Roberta Peters, South Pacific, Rose Marie, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Side by Side by Sondheim,Guys and Dolls, Candide, Regina and Man of LaMancha which he did at the Covent Garden Festival in London and recorded at the famed Abbey Road Studios. He has been a soloist with over 60 major American and international orchestras, including the Boston Pops with John Williams, Keith Lockhart, and Marvin Hamlisch, the Philly Pops with Peter Nero, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, and the summer of 2018 with Gewandhaus of Leipzig, Germany. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and London’s Palladium and their Royal Festival Hall. He has appeared on four PBS “Great Performances,” and has recorded numerous cast albums as well as two solo CDs on the Jay Records label. Born in Texas City, Texas and raised throughout East Texas, Ron graduated from Oklahoma City University and later attended The Juilliard School. He was a three-time Emmy nominee for his role as the nefarious Alan Spaulding on CBS’s longest running daytime drama Guiding Light. Ron has appeared on CBS prime time in The Good Wife, Elementary, Person of Interest.
He lives in New York City with his wife Dona and daughter Charlotte.
(ronrainesonline.com)
Revised October 2018
Credits
TV: "Guiding Light " (3 Emmy Nominations); PBS:"My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs," "Ira Gerschwin at 100," "The Rodgers and Hart Story:Thou Swell,Thou Witty," and "An Evening With the Pops." Guest Roles: Person of Interest as Bruce Wellington, 2013; Elementary as Ian, 2014
Broadway / NY: Follies (Tony Award nomination); Chicago; Show Boat; Teddy and Alice, Follies; Olympus On My Mind ; Oh,Lady! Lady!; A Little Night Music. Regionally - Annie; Kismet; Kiss Me, Kate; The King and I; South Pacific; Brigadoon; Oklahoma!; Carousel; Side By Side By Sondheim; The Man of La Mancha.
More than 50 symphonies including the Boston Pops,Chicago,Cleveland,San Francisco,Israeli Philharmonic, BBC, Royal Philharmonic.
Recordings: Man of La Mancha, Follies, The Pajama Game, 110 in the Shade, and more.
Webseries: Beacon Hill, One Life to Live
Television and Stage Highlight Reels
Below are video clips contained in Ron's highlight reel.
From Guiding Light with Caitlin VanZandt
From Guiding Light with Beth Chamberlin
From Guiding Light with Beth Chamberlin
From Guiding Light with Grant Aleksander
From Guiding Light with Kane Manera
From Guiding Light with Marcy Rylan, Beth Chamberlin and Tina Sloan
From Guiding Light with Beth Chamberlin
As "Billy Flynn" in Chicago on Broadway, 2002
Stage performance of Lerner & Lowes song Gigi, from Gigi
Stage performance of Isn' It Romantic?
In Portland Opera Theater production of Man of LaMancha
Performing 'S Wonderful
Performing Who Cares?
South Pacific at the Papermill Playhouse in 1994. Ron was in this production
when he landed the role of "Alan Spaulding"on Guiding Light.
when he landed the role of "Alan Spaulding"on Guiding Light.
From Guiding Light, April 1995 with Marj Dusay and Allison Janey
The Pittsburgh CLO production of Man of LaMancha, June 2015