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Vincent J. Cardinal [he/him] is a Professor of Musical Theatre Performance in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of Michigan. Previously, he served as the Arthur and Martha Hearron endowed professor of Musical Theatre and Chair of Michigan’s Department of Musical Theatre.
Cardinal was the artistic director of Connecticut Repertory Theatre and Chair of the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut. He was identified as one of the top five directors in Connecticut by CBS-WFSB Connecticut. Cardinal was an associate artist with the Circle Repertory Company off-Broadway and director of the School of Theatre. He graduated in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where he was honored with the ASCAP-Cole Porter Award for Best-Collected Work. His plays have been produced internationally.
One of Cardinal’s plays, The Colorado Catechism, premiered at Circle Repertory Company and has been produced internationally. The Los Angeles production of the play garnered actors Timothy Daly and Amy Van Nostrand Dramalogue Awards for “Best Performances.” Another play, King Dusyanta: A Tale from Kalidasa, premiered under his direction at the Oasis Theater Company. It starred Tony Award winner André DeShields.
Cardinal directed The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, The Foreigner by Larry Shue and Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahue and at the Tony Award winning Utah Shakespeare Festival. His production of Every Brilliant Thing was honored as “Production of the Decade” by Broadway World, Salt Lake City. Other directing highlights include Terrence Mann in My Fair Lady and Man of La Mancha; Pat Sajak in The Odd Couple and The Drowsy Chaperone; Steve Hayes in A Funny Thing Happened..., Jerry Adler and Richard Kline in The Sunshine Boys, and Leslie Uggams in Gypsy.
He directed Fred Grandy in How To Succeed...with Tina Fabrique and On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson - 2018 Syracuse Area Live Theatre Award (SALT) for Best Production - as well as Six Degrees of Separation, which won the 2017 Syracuse Area Live Theatre Award (SALT) for Best Production as well as Best Direction. Fred Grandy was joined by his Love Boat co-star Ted Lange to star in I’m Not Rappaport by Herb Gardner under Cardinal’s direction.
As producer he has led over 150 productions including Terrence Mann in Les Miserable, Andrea MacArdle and Ken Clark in Urinetown, Richard Kline in Spamalot, and Barret Foa and Courtney Balan in The Music Man. He served as director of The Curious Case of Phineas Cage with the Split Knuckle Theatre Company. It has been produced on tour and as part of the New York International Fringe Festival
Cardinal served as the Associate Dean of Performing Arts at Adelphi University. He was the chair of Theatre at the University of Miami and the Artistic Director of the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre where his musical theatre productions garnered international attention. He served as the director of the School of Theater and head of the MFA Playwriting Program at Ohio University.
He serves on the Board of Directors for Encore Musical Theatre Company in Dexter, Michigan where he recently directed Fun Home.

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Photos: First Look at I'M NOT RAPPAPORT at The Encore


The Encore Theatre’s production of the Tony Award-winning comedy, I'm Not Rappaport, took to the Maas main stage on April 11 for a limited engagement running until April 21. The production features a star-studded cast including Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, and Jill Whelan, marking a nostalgic reunion as the trio shares the stage for the first time since their iconic roles on the hit television series, The Love Boat.

Photos: Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, And Jill Whelan Lead I'M NOT RAPPAPORT At The Encore


The Encore Theatre’s production of the Tony Award-winning comedy, I'm Not Rappaport, which takes to the Maas main stage April 11-21, features a star-studded cast including Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, and Jill Whelan. See photos from the production.

I'M NOT RAPPAPORT Comes to the Encore Theatre in April


The Encore Theatre’s upcoming production of the Tony Award-winning  comedy, I'm Not Rappaport, which takes to the Maas main stage April 11-21, will feature a star-studded cast including Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, and Jill Whelan.

Last Chance To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Salt Lake City Awards; Utah Shakespeare's THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Leads Best Musical!


This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Salt Lake City Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Final Weeks To Vote For The BroadwayWorld Salt Lake City Awards; LES MISERABLES Leads Best Musical


Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Salt Lake City Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Get to Know the Students of Next on Stage: RJ Higton Shares What Musical Theatre Means to Him


We're announcing our winners of season 2 of Next on Stage: Dance Edition this week! But before we do, we're chatting with the contestants in the finale. Contestant RJ Higton shares more about his charity, his experience in a production of A Chorus Line, and gives a shoutout to his 'village.'

BWW Review: FUN HOME at The Encore Musical Theatre Company is Home Sweet Fun


In the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home, cartoonist Alison Bechdel starts every scene by saying a?oeCaption,a?? followed by a description of what is about to happen. Fun Home was adapted into a musical by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori and is based on Bechdel's memoir of the same name and subtitled a?oeA Family Tragicomic.a?? So let's just say, Caption: Encore Theatre's production of Fun Home is not to be missed.

BWW Interview: Joshua Henry's Performing in Motown and Returning to the Stage in THE WRONG MAN


Almost a year to the day of ending his Tony Award-nominated run as Billy Bigelow in the 2018 revival of Carousel, Joshua Henry is returning to the stage on Sept. 18. He'll star as the title character in multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ross Golan's new musical The Wrong Man, Off-Broadway, at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space.

The Encore Musical Theatre Company Presents The Tony Award-Winning Musical FUN HOME


Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Fun Home opens The Encore Musical Theatre Company's 12th season and will run Sept. 12-Oct. 13, 2019. Described as 'A Family Tragicomic,' Fun Home was written by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, best known for her long-running comic strip 'Dykes to Watch Out For.' Named the Best Book of 2006 by Time magazine, Fun Home was adapted into a musical by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori (Shrek, Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie) and opened on Broadway in 2015 after a sold-out Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater in 2013.

BWW Review: I'M NOT RAPPAPORT Charms at the Redhouse Arts Center


The Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, New York is now delighting audiences with their entertaining and engaging production of Herb Gardner's play I'm Not Rappaport. Impressively directed by Vincent J. Cardinal, the production marks the reunion of Fred Grandy and Ted Lange, castmates of the beloved television series The Love Boat.

Where Do You Belong? Stats from the Most Represented Schools on Broadway Part 1


We're rounding up some of the most heavily represented schools on Broadway to give students some stats to consider when getting ready to apply or even transfer.

Former Cazenovia Resident To Premiere One Man Show At The New Redhouse


TADEUSZ VON MOLTKE (NBC's THE BLACKLIST; DJ Khaled/Jay Z's video 'I Got the Keys' (EPIC RECORDS); DIXON PLACE 2018 QT: RAINBOWS ACROSS THE DIASPORA) will be the principal featured actor in: THEA MUSGRAVE: A 90th BIRTHDAY CONCERT IN NEW YORK CITY.

BWW Interview: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S Vincent J. Cardinal Takes 2018 UM Musical Theatre Graduating Class to Audition in NYC


Mother's Day could be extra-special this year for the moms of the University of Michigan Department of Musical Theatre (UMSMTD) 2018 graduating class.  Most likely, many of them will accompany their just-graduated seniors to New York City and celebrate Mother's Day on the Great White Way.  Then, on Monday, May 14, 19 of the 20 UMSMTD grads will be having their first professional auditions in their chosen career of theatre.

Former Cazenovia Resident To Premiere One Man Show At The New Redhouse


TADEUSZ VON MOLTKE (NBC's THE BLACKLIST; DJ Khaled/Jay Z's video 'I Got the Keys' (EPIC RECORDS); DIXON PLACE 2018 QT: RAINBOWS ACROSS THE DIASPORA) will be the principal featured actor in: THEA MUSGRAVE: A 90th BIRTHDAY CONCERT IN NEW YORK CITY.

BWW Review: ON GOLDEN POND is Heartwarming at The Redhouse at City Center


Devotion, passion, and drive are just some of the words that come to mind when I think of The Redhouse, 'a nonprofit, multi-arts organization dedicated to the production and presentation of interdisciplinary works, theatre, music and visual art.' The Redhouse has become a large part of the theatre scene within the Central New York area and it now has a new location at Syracuse, NY's City Center, just a few blocks away from its starter home. The Redhouse may have moved on to a larger venue with three performing spaces, but the heart is still very much there. What better way to open a new space than with the touching, entertaining, and heartwarming production of Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond, brilliantly directed by Vincent J. Cardinal.

Redhouse's ON GOLDEN POND Starring TV Star Fred Grandy Opens at Redhouse at City Center, 3/8


Redhouse Arts Center is thrilled to inaugurate its new City Center home with Ernest Thompson's classic On Golden Pond. Performances will take place March 8-18, 2018 and will mark the first performances at the brand new Redhouse at City Center, located at 400 South Salina Street, which boasts three new theatres, an attached parking garage, full service concession, larger lobby space, and much, much more. The show will feature actor and TV star Fred Grandy, lovingly know as "Gopher" by his millions of fans around the world who watched him on the long-running TV Series The Love Boat. On Golden Pond was adapted to an academy award winning movie in 1981 which starred Henry Fonda who won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor in what was his final film role. Don't miss this gorgeously witty and heart warming classic featuring an all star cast.

Utah Shakespeare Festival Announces Slate of Eight Talented Directors for 2018 Season


Utah Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Brian Vaughn recently announced a slate of eight highly-creative, talented, and experienced directors for the Festival's 2018 season. Many have directed at the Festival before, but some will be new to Festival audiences.

BWW Review: NOISES OFF at Connecticut Repertory Theatre


Sardines. Slamming doors. Relationships budding (and burning) before your eyes. A farce within a farce. And laughter, so much laughter. Take all of this and mix it together and you get Michael Frayn's masterpiece of a comedy NOISES OFF, which is currently playing as the Connecticut Repertory Theatre's (CRT) second production of their Summer Nutmeg Series.

Photo Flash: CT Rep Begins NOISES OFF starring Jennifer Cody Tonight


Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) announces the casting for their second Summer Nutmeg Series production Noises Off by Michael Frayn onstage June 15-25, 2017. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale at crt.uconn.edu or 860-486-2113.

Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of CT Rep's NOISES OFF, Starring Jen Cody


Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) presents their second Summer Nutmeg Series production Noises Off by Michael Frayn, onstage June 15-25, 2017. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in character below!

Vincent J. Cardinal FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many shows has Vincent J. Cardinal written?

Vincent J. Cardinal has written 1 shows including The Colorado Catechism (Playwright).

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