Rick Crom

Rick Crom (born March 15, 1957) is an American actor, singer, comedian, lyricist, and composer. He has appeared in numerous television shows and specials, Broadway and off-Broadway musicals, as well as written several off-Broadway revues, and has 3 times been nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.

Performer

In 1993, Crom made his Broadway acting debut in ''The Goodbye Girl''. He was an understudy in ''Footloose'' and appeared in '' Urinetown: The Musical'' as Tiny Tom/Dr. Billeaux. His off-Broadway acting credits include the 1994 revival of '' Merrily We Roll Along'' and the ''Encores!'' productions of ''Fiorello!'' and ''Li'l Abner''.

As a comedian, Crom has appeared with the Chicago City Limits, and performed stand-up across the country, most frequently at New York City's Comedy Cellar. On television, he has been seen on ''Chappelle's Show'', ''Caroline's Comedy Hour'', and ''Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn''. He also appeared on the FX sitcom ''Louie'', starring fellow comic Louis CK.

Crom teaches a course in stand-up comedy at the Comedy Cellar in New York.

Writer

In 2004, Crom wrote the book, music, and lyrics for ''NEWSical'', and received his first Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Lyrics, with ''NEWSical'' picking up a nomination for Outstanding Review . An original cast recording was released on April 5, 2005. Though ''NEWSical'' closed in 2005 after 215 performances, a new edition (renamed ''NEWSICAL the Musical: We Distort, You Decide'', and featuring an original book and music) began previews at the 47th Street Theater on November 24, 2009, and opened December 9 of that year. Once again, Crom was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, and the show was nominated for the Outstanding Musical Revue award. The 2009–2010 production closed March 21, 2010. The latest edition of ''NEWSical the Musical: Full Spin Ahead'' began previews December 13 of that year and opened on January 9, 2011 at The Kirk at Theatre Row.

Crom created the ''Star Trek'' spoof ''Space Trek'' with bookwriter Marc Lipitz, and authored the topical musical revues ''Oh Fine RSVP!'', ''The Subject Was Neurosis'', ''Absolutely Rude'', and ''Our Life and Times'', which won him a MAC Award and a ''Backstage'' Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Revue.

Crom contributed a majority of the topical material featured at the Crystal Palace Theater in Aspen, Colorado from the late 1980s to 2008 (when the venue closed). A recording of his songs for the Crystal Palace, ''Who Writes This Stuff? The Songs of Rick Crom'', was released in 2008. He currently performs the same function for Laffing Matterz, a dinner theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In 2009, Crom composed the score and co-wrote lyrics with Fred M. Caruso for the film ''The Big Gay Musical''. He composed the score and wrote the lyrics for ''Bonnie & Clyde: A Folktale'', with a book by his ''Urinetown'' co-star Hunter Foster. It was presented at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival, where it won awards for Best Music and Most Promising Musical. ''Bonnie & Clyde: A Folktale'' was workshopped in residency at the Academy for New Musical Theatre, through the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund Fellowship, a Producer-Writer Initiative granted through NAMT, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

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American male musical theatre actors
American musical theatre composers
American male stage actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
1957 births
Gay comedians
LGBT singers from the United States
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American gay actors
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Living people
20th-century LGBT people
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