Artist:Scott Bakula and Alison Fraser
Song:I'll Always Remember the Song
Album:Front Row Center: The Broadway Gold Box 1935-1988
Most folks should be familiar with actor Scott Bakula as a four time Emmy winner for the popular TV series Quantum Leap. But he started out on Broadway and was Tony nominated for the 1988 musical Romance/Romance. It was after he appeared on this show that he landed the role on Quantum Leap. He was born Oct. 9, 1954 in St. Louis. While Bakula was attending the University of Kansas, he was offered a national tour of Godspell. His parents told him to go and get acting out of his system and return to school. But the tour never happened. Bakula was tired of waiting and moved to New York City in 1976. He appeared as Joe DiMaggio in the 1983 flop Marilyn followed by the 1985 off Broadway show Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down. When he appeared in the Pasadena Playhouse production of this show, that got him a Los Angeles agent. So he moved there. After Bakula appeared on the first season of the popular sitcom Designing Women, He was cast in a couple of short lived series. Then during the 1988 Hollywood writers strike, Bakula moved back to New York to appear in the Broadway musical Romance/Romance. This ran from May 1988 to Jan. 1989. This show was written for off off Broadway by Barry Harman and Keith Herrmann and did well enough that it graduated to a larger theater on Broadway. Bakula and his co-star Alison Fraser were both nominated for Tonys. Alison is mainly a stage actress. The original cast album for Romance/Romance is available as a digital download. But you can get I'll Always Remember This Song on this 4CD budget box set that is a Broadway history of Decca Records. It was while he was doing this show that Bakula was offered Quantum Leap. And that show made him famous. Afterwards, he played Murphy Brown's boyfriend on that sitcom. He played Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise from 2001-2005. More recently he appeared on the series NCIS and the spinoff series NCIS: New Orleans. Bakula has appeared in films but most of his success has been on TV. Bakula recently returned to Broadway in the musical The Connector from Jan. to Mar. 2024. Here's Scott Bakula and Alison Fraser performing I'll Always Remember This Song and It's Not To Late on the 1988 Tony Awards broadcast June 5, 1988.
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