Rene Auberjonois Will Make Musical Return in ENTER LAUGHING at Wallis Annenberg Center

According to his official website, stage and screen star Rene Auberjonois will make his musical return in ENTER LAUGHING- THE MUSICAL, playing at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts February 10 - March 1, 2015. Based on the play of the same name, the musical features a book by Joseph Stein and music & lyrics by Stan Daniels.

David Kolowitz wants to be a Broadway star - is that so much to ask? But, oy vey, his parents have plans for him to be a pharmacist! Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by iconic writer-comedian Carl Reiner, Enter Laughing - The Musical centers on the journey of a stage-struck errand boy from the Bronx with dreams of making it big. Along the way, he encounters the madcap eccentrics that inhabit the Great White Way in this tuneful adaptation.

For tickets, visit: http://thewallis.org/showinfo.php?id=34

Auberjonois landed a role on Broadway in 1968, and ended up appearing in three plays at once: as Fool to Lee J. Cobb's King Lear (the longest running production of the play in Broadway history), as Ned in A Cry of Players (opposite Frank Langella), and as Marco in Fire!. The next year, he earned a Tony Award for his performance as Sebastian Baye alongside Katharine Hepburn in Coco. Auberjonois also received Tony nominations for his roles in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973, opposite Christopher Plummer); as The Duke in Big River (1984), winning a Drama Desk Award; and, memorably, as Buddy Fidler/Irwin S. Irving in City of Angels (1989), written by Larry Gelbart and Cy Coleman.

His other Broadway appearances include Malvolio in Twelfth Night (1972); Scapin in Tricks (1973); Mr. Samsa in Metamorphosis opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov (1989); Professor Abronsius in Dance of the Vampires, and Jethro Crouch in Sly Fox (2004, for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award).

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