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Dick Latessa, 87, Broadway Veteran Who Won His First Tony At 74

PEOPLE Posted: December 21, 2016 4:32 am

“The Ohio native made his Broadway debut in the 1968 musical The Education of HYMAN KAPLA*N and enjoyed a 50-year acting career, appearing most recently on Broadway in the 2012 comedy The Lyons, playing an elderly man who refuses to die. … [He] won the 2003 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing Harvey Fierstein’s onstage husband in the original cast of Hairspray.”

PEOPLE Published: 12.20.16

Read the story in Playbill Published: 12.20.16

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