Alvin Ing, a pioneering Asian American Broadway actor who appeared in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures,” died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif. on July 31. He was 89.
Ing’s representatives said that the fully-vaccinated actor was diagnosed with pneumonia in mid-July and then contracted Covid-19 a few days later. After battling the illness for two weeks, Ing died due to cardiac arrest.
Born in Honolulu, Ing studied music at the University of Hawaii before moving to New York at age 25 to pursue an acting career. He landed various roles in Off Broadway shows and touring productions before making his Broadway debut in the 1976 original production of Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures.” He reprised the performance almost 30 years later, when the musical was revived on Broadway in 2004. Ing also starred in the 2002 revival of “Flower Drum Song,” in which he performed the song “My Best Love.
Ing’s representatives said that the fully-vaccinated actor was diagnosed with pneumonia in mid-July and then contracted Covid-19 a few days later. After battling the illness for two weeks, Ing died due to cardiac arrest.
Born in Honolulu, Ing studied music at the University of Hawaii before moving to New York at age 25 to pursue an acting career. He landed various roles in Off Broadway shows and touring productions before making his Broadway debut in the 1976 original production of Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures.” He reprised the performance almost 30 years later, when the musical was revived on Broadway in 2004. Ing also starred in the 2002 revival of “Flower Drum Song,” in which he performed the song “My Best Love.
- 8/3/2021
- by Ethan Shanfeld
- Variety Film + TV
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- 11/3/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York Times employees came together yesterday for a bit of musical fun, with a compilation video of Stephen Sondheim’s “Broadway Baby,” a popular classic from his 1971 musical “Follies.” Among the performers were some Times celebrities — including op-ed columnist Frank Bruni and political reporter Maggie Haberman. The video was created to accompany a lengthy interview between Sondheim and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda in the New York Times Magazine, which ran online on Monday. Also Read: 'Pacific Overtures' Theater Review: Stephen Sondheim Survives the Scissors “It’s hard to overemphasize Sondheim’s influence on American musical theater,” wrote...
- 10/17/2017
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Record producer Thomas Z. Shepard has won twelve Grammy awards for producing the original cast albums of shows like VictorVictoria, Ain't Misbehavin' and La Cage Aux Folles. He is best known for his many collaborations with Stephen Sondheim on such albums as Company, Sweeney Todd, Follies In Concert, Sunday in the Park With George, Merrily We Roll Along, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures.
- 10/11/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lythgoe Family Panto Lfp, in association with Pasadena Playhouse have announced casting for Beauty And The Beast A Christmas Rose. Jonah Platt Broadway's Wicked will star as The Beast Gedde Watanabe Broadway's Pacific Overtures, John Hughes' Sixteen Candles as Maurice Jared Gertner Broadway's The Book Of Mormon as Pierre and John Tartaglia Broadway's Shrek The Musical, and as Bistro.
- 10/4/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
There will be an industry-only staged reading of the 1962 musical I Can Get It For You Wholesale, based on the best-selling Jerome Weidman novel on Tuesday, June 6th. The musical has a score by Harold Rome Fanny, Wish You Were Here, Destry Rides Again, book by Jerome Weidman Fiorello, revised book by John Weidman Assassins, Pacific Overtures, Contact, music direction by David Chase Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and direction by Trip Cullman Six Degrees of Separation, Significant Other.
- 6/5/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The best thing about Classic Stage Company's small-scale, extensively trimmed production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's extraordinarily-written 1976 musical, Pacific Overtures, is a chance to see a terrific ensemble of actors taken from the New York stage's severely underutilized pool of Asian-American talent. The company includes notables of the musical stage such as Ann Harada, Orville Mendoza, Thom Sesma and Marc Oka.
- 5/9/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
A longtime actor on television and stage, over the past six years George Takei has become a star of a new medium: social media. Through Facebook and Twitter, the 79-year-old actor -- most notable for his years as Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek and its subsequent films -- has become known for his memes and wit, but also, lately, his social activism. Using the platforms on which he’s cultivated an engaged audience, Takei has been able to defend Nina Davuluri from racist commentary after she was named Miss America 2014 and raise money to fund a web series addressing the Boy Scouts’ (now former) anti-gay policies. Lately, he’s become more outspoken, defending millions of Americans from President Donald Trump, who Takei believes is acting out in fear.
“That fear comes from the fact that he’s uninformed,” Takei tells Et as hundreds of thousands of Americans have responded to the actor’s Care2 petition calling...
“That fear comes from the fact that he’s uninformed,” Takei tells Et as hundreds of thousands of Americans have responded to the actor’s Care2 petition calling...
- 2/10/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
George Takei is continuing to set the record straight about his complicated feelings towards the newly gay helmsman Sulu. The actor, 79, sparked controversy after he told The Hollywood Reporter he was "disappointed" that his character from the original TV show had been altered for the franchise's new movie, Star Trek Beyond. He later clarified his comments in a lengthy Facebook post saying he is "delighted" that the Lgbtq community will be represented in the Star Trek universe, further adding to the franchise's diversity. Takei, who came out as gay in 2005, further elaborated on his feelings to People, explaining the history...
- 7/16/2016
- by Jodi Gugliemi and Michael Miller
- PEOPLE.com
George Takei, who recently starred in the Broadway musical Allegiance, has been cast as 'Reciter' in Classic Stage Company's upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures, to be directed by Tony Award winner and 2016 Tony Award nominee John Doyle, who this season takes the reins as Artistic Director of the vital East Village theater company.
- 7/14/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that Tony Award-nominated Kate Baldwin and Paolo Montalban will star as Anna Leonowens and the King of Siam in Lyric's grand-scale production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, April 29-May 22, 2016 press opening April 30. A graduate of Northwestern University, Baldwin last appeared onstage in Chicago in the Broadway-bound musical Big Fish. Montalban has been seen in Broadway productions of Pacific Overtures and The King and I, and is best known for starring as the Prince in ABC's telefilm of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, alongside Brandy and Whitney Houston.
- 1/11/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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- 1/11/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1976, Pacific Overtures opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 193 performances. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a libretto by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler, the musical is set in 1853 Japan and follows the difficult Westernization of Japan, through the lives of two friends caught in the change. The original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures in 1976 was presented in Kabuki style, with men playing women's parts and set changes made in full view of the audience by people dressed in black. A Broadway revival ran at Studio 54 from December 2, 2004 to January 30, 2005, directed by Amon Miyamoto and starring B.D. Wong as the Narrator and several members of the original cast.
- 1/11/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lyrics amp Lyricists gets going on the opening show of its 45th season with A Good Thing Going The Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince Collaboration on January 10, 11 and 12. Artistic director David Loud, himself a frequent Sondheim collaborator, explores the 1970-1981 partnership behind the groundbreaking musicals Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along - with cast members Kate Baldwin, Heidi Blickenstaff, Liz Callaway, James Clow, Jason Danieley, and Alan H. Green.
- 12/11/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
There are two upcoming movie musicals that, for a long time, I've wanted to make into motion pictures, should someone with money be willing to give me the funds to make them -- Into The Woods and The Last 5 Years. I'm both nervous and excited to see how directors Rob Marshall and Richard Lagravenese, respectfully, have interpreted the material I hold so close to my heart. I am especially nervous for Into The Woods, given Marshall's less than impressive track record. If someone is going to screw up something I cherish, it should be me. Of course, there are far more than two musicals I have a deep connection to. Some have already been made into films, like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Les Miserables, but there is a vast collection of musicals I have thought could make fantastic films, but have never been made.
- 10/20/2014
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
Today in 1976, Pacific Overtures opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 193 performances. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a libretto by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler, the musical is set in 1853 Japan and follows the difficult Westernization of Japan, through the lives of two friends caught in the change. The original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures in 1976 was presented in Kabuki style, with men playing women's parts and set changes made in full view of the audience by people dressed in black. A Broadway revival ran at Studio 54 from December 2, 2004 to January 30, 2005, directed by Amon Miyamoto and starring B.D. Wong as the Narrator and several members of the original cast.
- 1/11/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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- 5/15/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
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- 1/11/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony Awardwinning star of theater, film, and television, Nathan Lane will host Symphonic Sondheim, the New York Philharmonics performance of symphonic suites by Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Academy Award, and Grammy Awardwinning composer Stephen Sondheim. Experience the splendor of the New York Philharmonic playing symphonic suites of this legendary composer's greatest melodies from works such as Sunday in the Park with George, The Enclave, Pacific Overtures, Stavisky, Passion, and Sweeney Todd.
- 11/27/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1976, Pacific Overtures opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 193 performances. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a libretto by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler, the musical is set in 1853 Japan and follows the difficult Westernization of Japan, through the lives of two friends caught in the change. The original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures in 1976 was presented in Kabuki style, with men playing women's parts and set changes made in full view of the audience by people dressed in black. A Broadway revival ran at Studio 54 from December 2, 2004 to January 30, 2005, directed by Amon Miyamoto and starring B.D. Wong as the Narrator and several members of the original cast.
- 1/11/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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- 11/17/2011
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
A little over two years ago, AfterElton.com brought readers a list of the 37 Hottest Guys in Theater, and since then, the New York Stage has only become increasingly sexified. The lines between Broadway and Hollywood continue to blur, and as young men come to recognition in NYC, they're often quickly whisked away to Tinseltown to showcase not only their amazing talent, but often they're breathtaking good looks.
While it's tempting to include every Hollywood hottie who graces the stage on this list (a certain Lee Pace and Luke Macfarlane spring to mind), the point here is to honor the men who are mostly known for rockin' the live stages here in New York.
And so, without further ado, we present, in alphabetical order, the list (39!) of this year's hottest guys in theater!
Nick Adams
A perennial AfterElton favorite, the muscular, openly gay Nick first made waves a few years...
While it's tempting to include every Hollywood hottie who graces the stage on this list (a certain Lee Pace and Luke Macfarlane spring to mind), the point here is to honor the men who are mostly known for rockin' the live stages here in New York.
And so, without further ado, we present, in alphabetical order, the list (39!) of this year's hottest guys in theater!
Nick Adams
A perennial AfterElton favorite, the muscular, openly gay Nick first made waves a few years...
- 6/2/2011
- by JT Riley
- The Backlot
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