Bob LuPone, Actor Who Helped Found and Lead Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater, Dies at 76

The brother of Patti LuPone earned a Tony nomination in the original run of 'A Chorus Line.'

, but convinced creator and director Michael Bennett to let him play Zach after the original actor left. LuPone would earn a best featured actor Tony nomination for the role.

Born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, LuPone graduated from The Juilliard School with a bachelor’s degree in dance in 1968.Together they would help form Manhattan Class Company in 1986 — known today as MCC Theater. LuPone, Telsey along with third co-artistic director Will Cantler shaped MCC into a theatrical powerhouse, producing such Broadway-bound works asThe Snow Geese, The Other PlaceWhile serving as co-artistic director of MCC, LuPone also worked as an actor, appearing in, all on Broadway.

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