![]() ![]() Some of the best years of my life were spent at Wagner College. Remember that? Designing Women would come on at 5? Anyone? It comes from years of watching The Golden Girls every day at 4pm after school. ![]() I’ve been pretty good with a smart remark and a slow burn. What quality in your current character is most like your own personality? I am less cynical and more open to heartbreak than Mitchell. What quality in your current character is most unlike your own personality? I was told both “warm” and “charismatic.” A relative once said, “You could plop Eric down in the middle of a corn field and he’d make a friend.” What word would your friends use to describe you? Here, Rawski submits to The Public Questionnaire: Rawski plays it with impressive control, fighting back his most powerful emotions until the final moments of the play, when the situation no longer affords him that luxury. This is an unusual role for an actor of unusual talent and range. When this funny man is reduced to tears, it is a shattering experience for the entire audience – and these tears are entirely earned. He rails against the grotesque trappings of traditional putti infested marriage rites, only to learn the hard way that there is substance to the protections society has long provided to heterosexual couples. With his deft talent for comic nuance, the actor lures his unwary audience into the playwright’s artful trap of comedy. At the center of it all is Rawski’s character, a man who realizes, too late, that the crisis of his life could have been avoided so simply. Playwright McKeever shifts gears, skillfully subverting the familiar tropes of romantic comedy to send his characters careening, unexpectedly, into the territory of powerful drama. The plays starts out like a Neil Simon comedy, right down to the presence of an endearingly intrusive mother character (played by Anne Hartley Pfohl). Daniel is for it Mitchell finds the whole idea absurd. The one catch in this blissful life is that Mitchell and Daniel have opposite opinions on the subject of gay marriage. He plays Mitchell, a successful writer living with Daniel, the love of his life (played by Michael Seitz). ![]() Now, Rawski is back at BUA to star in Michael McKeever’s powerful play, Daniel’s Husband. With Buffalo United Artists he’s done Godspell, The Laramie Project, and Love! Valour! Compassion! as well as a litany of camp shows from The Birds Attack to Poseidon: an Upside Down Musical. ![]() For Second Generation he did Into the Woods. For MusicalFare, he did The Drowsy Chaperone. (Lest you think I exaggerate, the psycho killers in his repertoire include the man who attempted to murder Richard Nixon in Assassins for Second Generation, the child killer in Frozen for Red Thread, Bill Sikes in Oliver! for MusicalFare, and Captain Hook for New Phoenix.)Īmong his most memorable roles are performances in Cloud 9, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, and The Real Thing at the New Phoenix. He is best known for the comic flair he brings to his characters, whether playing an innocent or a psychopathic killer-and he has played more than his share of psychopathic killers. In a career that has spanned comic and dramatic roles, musicals, and classics, Eric Rawski is noted for committing to every gesture wholeheartedly. ![]()
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