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Roger
Rees (5 May 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Welsh actor and director, widely known
for his stage work. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for his
performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of the Day and as
co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher. Rees was posthumously
inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame, 16 November 2015. He was
widely known to American television audiences for playing the characters Robin
Colcord in Cheers and Lord John Marbury in The West Wing.
Rees had lived in the United States for more than 25 years;[2]
he became a naturalised U.S. citizen in 2009.[5]
He converted to Judaism in the 1980s.[14]
Rees married his partner of 33 years, playwright
Rick Elice, in 2011.[15][16][17]
Rees and Elice also collaborated professionally, including as co-playwrights
of the comedic thriller Double Double.[18]
Elice co-wrote (with Marshall Brickman) the libretto for The Addams Family
musical, the cast of which Rees had joined on 22 March 2011. In 2012, Elice
and Rees received Tony Award nominations for Elice's stage adaptation and
Rees' co-direction (with Alex Timbers), respectively, of Peter and the
Starcatcher.[4]
In October 2017, his husband Rick Elice wrote a memoir of his life with Rees,
entitled Finding Roger: An Improbably Theatrical Love Story, published
by Kingswell, a division of Hachette. <Michael Riedel, New York Post,
September 29, 2017>
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After a diagnosis of brain cancer in October 2014, Rees focused his energy
on his commitment to playing opposite Chita Rivera on Broadway in The Visit,
the final musical written by John Kander and
Fred Ebb. While undergoing two
brain surgeries, two courses of radiation and ongoing chemotherapy, Rees
managed to rehearse, preview and open in The Visit on 23 April 2015. By
the middle of May, it had become too difficult for him to speak, and he left
the show. Rees died of brain cancer at age 71 at his home in New York on 10
July 2015. On Wednesday, 15 July 2015, the marquee lights at all the theatres
on Broadway were dimmed in his honour.[19]
His ashes were sprinkled into the Atlantic Ocean. Two months later, there was
a memorial service for him at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre.[20]
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