Press Resources
Below are down-loadable press photo and biography files. We have also added clips from my highlight reel containing television and stage performances. Please contact us by emailing my website manager if you are in need of assistance.
| ron5x7300.jpeg_2.jpg |
| ron_rainescredits.pdf |
TV: "Guiding Light " (3 Emmy Nominations); PBS:"My Favorite Broadway:The Love Songs," "Ira Gerschwin at 100," "The Rodgers and Hart Story:Thou Swell,Thou Witty," and "An Evening With the Pops."
Broadway / NY: Chicago; Show Boat; Teddy and Alice, Follies; Olympus On My Mind ; Oh,Lady! Lady!; A Little Night Music. Regionally - Annie; Kismet; Kiss Me, Kate; The King and I; South Pacific; Brigadoon; Oklahoma!; Carousel; Side By Side By Sondheim; The Man of La Mancha.
More than 50 symphonies including the Boston Pops,Chicago,Cleveland,San Francisco,Israeli Philharmonic, BBC, Royal Philharmonic.
Recordings: Man of La Mancha, Follies, The Pajama Game, 110 in the Shade, and more
Broadway / NY: Chicago; Show Boat; Teddy and Alice, Follies; Olympus On My Mind ; Oh,Lady! Lady!; A Little Night Music. Regionally - Annie; Kismet; Kiss Me, Kate; The King and I; South Pacific; Brigadoon; Oklahoma!; Carousel; Side By Side By Sondheim; The Man of La Mancha.
More than 50 symphonies including the Boston Pops,Chicago,Cleveland,San Francisco,Israeli Philharmonic, BBC, Royal Philharmonic.
Recordings: Man of La Mancha, Follies, The Pajama Game, 110 in the Shade, and more
| ron_raines_bio.pdf |
Biography
Ron is well known to theater audiences in New York and around the country as one of America’s leading musical theater performers most recently starring in A Little Night Music with Amy Irving at the Opera Theater of St. Louis. He appeared on Broadway in 2002 as Billy Flynn in Chicago. He also starred on Broadway as Gaylord Ravenal in the 1983 revival of Jerome Kern’s Showboat co-starring Donald O’Connor. He originated the role of Teddy Roosevelt’s ambitious son-in-law Nick Longworth in the short-lived Broadway musical Teddy And Alice starring Len Cariou and went on to originate the dual role of Jupiter/Amphytrion in the Off-Broadway musical hit Olympus On My Mind. As a concert performer, Ron has appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras in Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelphia Orchestra, Portland, Rochester, San Diego, Tulsa, Washington DC’s National Symphony, among others. Raines has also had the privilege of performing with BBC Concert Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, and the Israeli Philharmonic. Raines has had the honor of singing for two of Americas first ladies: Nancy Reagan’s White House luncheon for the Senate wives and Ladybird Johnson’s National Wildlife Federation gala in Austin, Texas.
Raines joined the cast of the popular CBS-TV daytime series Guiding Light in July 1994. For his work as “Alan Spaulding,” Raines has been nominated for a 2003, 2004, and 2006 Emmy Award and was nominated three times for the Soap Opera Digest Award as “Outstanding Villain.” Raines played the role of Alan Spaulding from 1994 to 2009 when the serial went dark.
Raines joined the cast of the popular CBS-TV daytime series Guiding Light in July 1994. For his work as “Alan Spaulding,” Raines has been nominated for a 2003, 2004, and 2006 Emmy Award and was nominated three times for the Soap Opera Digest Award as “Outstanding Villain.” Raines played the role of Alan Spaulding from 1994 to 2009 when the serial went dark.
Television and Stage Highlight Reels
Below are video clips contained in Ron's highlight reel.
From Guiding Light with Caitlin VanZandt
From Guiding Light with Beth Chamberlin
From Guiding Light with Beth Chamberlin
From Guiding Light with Grant Aleksander
From Guiding Light with Kane Manera
From Guiding Light with Marcy Rylan, Beth Chamberlin and Tina Sloan
From Guiding Light with Beth Chamberlin
As "Billy Flynn" in Chicago on Broadway, 2002
Stage performance of Lerner & Lowes song Gigi, from Gigi
Stage performance of Isn' It Romantic?
In Portland Opera Theater production of Man of LaMancha
Performing 'S Wonderful
Performing Who Cares?