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Show Program Bios
Jason's biography
in the Stagebill for The Lion King, August
2000:
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JASON
RAIZE (Simba)
Broadway's
original Simba, has just
released "Taste the Tears,"
the first single from his
forthcoming Deston/Universal
Records solo pop album, NYC.
Produced by Desmond Child
and written by master
tunesmith Diane Warren, the
single is now available at
record stores. Visit
www.jasonraize.com for more
information, photographs,
and contests. Jason is an
official Ambassador of
Goodwill for the United
Nations.
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Jason's original
biography in the Stagebill for The Lion King, Fall
1998:
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JASON
RAIZE (Simba) recently
succeeded Styx singer
Dennis DeYoung on the hit
national tour of Jesus Christ
Superstar as
Pontius Pilate alongside
Ted Neeley and Carl
Anderson. Credits include:
award-winning productions
of The King and I,
Miss Saigon,
Yeston-Kopit's Phantom (title
role)
and
Gypsy (Tulsa).
"You
will
find
rest
from
vain
fancies
if
you
perform
every
act
in
life
as
though
it
were
your last."—Marcus
Antonius
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Jason's
biography in the Jesus
Christ Superstar 1995-1996 A.D.
Tour program:
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JASON
RAIZE (Pontius
Pilate), has most recently
performed the roles of the
Phantom in Yeston-Kopit's Phantom!,
Lun-Tha in The
King & I, Tulsa
in Gypsy, and
Chino in West
Side Story, with
Sammy Dallas Bayes. Jason's
career began with Shakespeare,
portraying such roles as
Orlando in As
You Like It and
Feste in Twelfth
Night, with Nancy
Fales-Garrett. Happy about a
lot of things at age 19, Jason
is most thankful to be getting
out of the City and seeing the
country without having to do
the driving! |
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