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Patrick Cassidy

Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Patrick Cassidy was born January 4, 1962 in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy. His brothers are Ryan and Shaun Cassidy, and his half-brother is David Cassidy. He is married to actress, Melissa Hurley, and is the father of two sons, Cole Patrick and Jack Gordon.
Cassidy grew up in an Irish-American family and decided to enter his high school's drama program after breaking his collarbone while playing as the quarterback for his high school football team. His first starring television role was in 1981 in the cautionary NBC movie Angel Dusted. Cassidy first appeared on Broadway in 1982 when he took over the role of Frederic in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance (having played the role in the national tour in 1981). In 1983, he starred in Bay City Blues as a baseball player in the minor leagues. The show was cancelled after just four episodes. In 1986, he played a West Point cadet in Dress Gray (for which he received an Emmy Award nomination) and appeared in the holiday TV movie Christmas Eve with Loretta Young.
Cassidy's next Broadway role was Jeff Barry in the Ellie Greenwich jukebox musical Leader of the Pack. In 1988, he starred in the television series Dirty Dancing, based on the film. Two years later, he starred in Longtime Companion about an actor battling AIDS, which was the first film to tackle the subject. In 1990, he originated the role of The Balladeer in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins at Playwrights Horizons, an off-Broadway theater.
In 1993, Cassidy starred as Bobby opposite Carol Burnett in a Los Angeles production of Sondheim's musical Company. (He later was passed over for a role in another Sondheim musical, Passion). In 1994, he appeared in the film I'll Do Anything and "How the West Was Fun" with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. In 1995, he portrayed John Wilkes Booth in the Los Angeles Repertory staging of Assassins. In 1997, he had a recurring role on TV's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, only to have another Superman related recurring role a few years later as the biological father of Lana Lang in Smallville. In 1998, he was Macheath in an L.A. production of The Threepenny Opera (for which he received the Garland Award for Best Actor). In 1999, he played the title character in a national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 2000, Cassidy co-starred with Cheryl Ladd in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway. In 2001 he played Radames in the national tour of the musical Aida (for which he won the 2002 National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Touring Musical) and then appeared in the role on Broadway in 2002. In 2004-05 he was back on Broadway in 42nd Street as Julian Marsh (opposite his mother as Dorothy Brock).

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Patrick Cassidy STAGE CREDITS

[Los Angeles]
Reprise! Concert, 2007
Performer

[US Tour]
Touring Revival, 2005
Joseph

[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 2001
Julian Marsh [Replacement]

[US Tour]
National Tour, 2001
Radames

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 2000
Radames [Replacement]

[Milburn, NJ (Regional)]
Paper Mill Production, 1999
Joseph

[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1999
Frank Butler [Replacement]

[Off-Broadway]
Encores! Concert, 1994
Randy Curtis

[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1985
Jeff Barry

[US Tour]
National Tour, 1981
Frederic [Replacement]

[Broadway]
Broadway Transfer, 1981
Frederic [Replacement]

Frederic [Replacement]

[Los Angeles]
Los Angeles Revival, 1993
Performer


Patrick Cassidy Awards and Nominations

Helen Hayes Awards - 1993 - Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical

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Studio Tenn Inaugurates Sparkling New Turner Theatre With Electrifying MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET


A musical retelling of producer Sam Phillips' serendipitous gathering of four of music's most notable Southern boys - Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley - at his Memphis-based Sun Records Studio on December 4, 1956, Million Dollar Quartet will set your feet to tapping out a steady rhythm from its very first moments (a performance of Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” that very nearly blows the roof off Studio Tenn’s brand spanking new Turner Theater at The Factory in Franklin) and will keep your heart pumping right along to the very final notes of Jerry Lee's “Whole Lotta Shakin’” that closes out the concert musical that is directed by Studio Tenn artistic director Patrick Cassidy and featuring an exceptional cast of performers who pay homage to their eponymous counterparts with so much talent and commitment that you’re breathless – but still wanting more – by the time the curtain closes two hours later.

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Patrick Cassidy FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Patrick Cassidy been in?

Patrick Cassidy has appeared on Broadway in 5 shows.

How many West End shows has Patrick Cassidy been in?

Patrick Cassidy has not appeared in the West End.

What awards has Patrick Cassidy been nominated for?

Patrick Cassidy has been nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical award at the Helen Hayes Awards for his performance in Conrack.

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