Kenneth Nelson (March , â€" October , ) was an American actor.Born in
Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Nelson appeared in several television
series in the late s, Captain Video and His Video Rangers and The
Aldrich Family among them. He was cast in his first Broadway show,
Seventeen, a musical adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel that
opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on June , and ran performances.In ,
Nelson was cast in an off-Broadway show entitled The Fantasticks,
which eventually became the world's longest-running musical with ,
performances. In , he was hired to understudy Anthony Newley in Stop
the World - I Want to Get Off when it transferred from the West End,
eventually assuming the lead role when the star departed the show.
From there, he went to another London import, Half a Sixpence, in .In
, Nelson accepted the lead in the controversial and groundbreaking
off-Broadway production of The Boys in the Band, the first play to
explore the milieu of gay life in New York City in a verbally frank
manner. He and the rest of the cast went on to appear in the film
version directed by William Friedkin.
Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Nelson appeared in several television
series in the late s, Captain Video and His Video Rangers and The
Aldrich Family among them. He was cast in his first Broadway show,
Seventeen, a musical adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel that
opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on June , and ran performances.In ,
Nelson was cast in an off-Broadway show entitled The Fantasticks,
which eventually became the world's longest-running musical with ,
performances. In , he was hired to understudy Anthony Newley in Stop
the World - I Want to Get Off when it transferred from the West End,
eventually assuming the lead role when the star departed the show.
From there, he went to another London import, Half a Sixpence, in .In
, Nelson accepted the lead in the controversial and groundbreaking
off-Broadway production of The Boys in the Band, the first play to
explore the milieu of gay life in New York City in a verbally frank
manner. He and the rest of the cast went on to appear in the film
version directed by William Friedkin.
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