Producers Lawrence Leritz (Boobs! The Musical) and Dominic Paolillo are proud to announce their partnership, producing the Ron Palillo play "The Lost Boy" for the New York stage. The team are in pre-production for a summer workshop, with full Broadway production to follow.
Performers and speakers included Broadway's performers Anita Gillette, Robert Bartley and Lawrence Leritz, literary agent Elaine Devlin and Joseph Gramm, Palillo's life partner. "Welcome Back, Kotter" stars John Travolta, Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman along with Donna Pescow, wrote statements read at the event and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs taped a personal tribute. Lawrence Leritz directed the event, and produced with Bob Dio.
After "Welcome Back, Kotter," Palillo appeared in various television series and films, including the sitcom "Ellen." After returning to New York in 1991, and played such roles as Mozart in "Amadeus" and regionally as George in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", Arthur in Camelot and Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls." Ron appeared on Broadway in 2008 in "Broadway Backwards 4," a charity event benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. Among his other New York City credits were a one-person show in 2000 where he portrayed Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in The Diary of Adolf Eichmann Off-Broadway.Photo Courtesy: Lawrence Leritz
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