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FRANK FERRANTE IN An Evening with Groucho

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“NOTHING SHORT OF MASTERFUL.”
Chicago Tribune
“ARTFUL... MR. FERRANTE'S TIMING IS DIGITAL SHARP...”
The New York Times
“FRANK FERRANTE IS A MARVELOUS GROUCHO...”
Newsday
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05.19.13
Michael Cooper
FM Kirby Center
Wilkes Barre, PA 

05.25.13
Matt Haimovitz / Christopher O’Riley
Tannery Pond Concerts
New Lebanon, NY

05.29.13
Christopher O’Riley
Yoshi's 
San Francisco, CA 

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Biography

Frank Ferrante (Groucho)

Frank Ferrante (Groucho) is an actor, director, and producer described by The New York Times as “the greatest living interpreter of Groucho Marx’s material.”  Animal Crackers and A Night at the Opera co-author Morrie Ryskind called him “the only actor aside from Groucho who delivered my lines as they were intended.”  Discovered by Groucho’s son Arthur when Frank was a drama student at the University of Southern California, Frank originated the off-Broadway title role in Groucho: A Life in Revue (written by Arthur) portraying the comedian from age 15 to 85.  For this role, Frank won 1987’s New York’s Theatre World Award and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award.  He reprised the role in London’s West End and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Comedy Performance of the Year.’ Frank played the Groucho role in the off-Broadway revival of The Cocoanuts and has played Captain Spalding in the several productions of Animal Crackers winning a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for his portrayal at Goodspeed Opera House and a Helen Hayes nomination in Washington D.C. at Arena Stage.  In Boston in 1988, he played the Huntington Theatre in the record-breaking run of Animal Crackers that landed Frank on the cover of American Theatre magazine.  In 2001, Frank starred in, directed and produced the national PBS television program Groucho: A Life in Revue.  Frank currently stars as the comic lead in the European cirque Teatro Zinzanni in San Francisco and Seattle.