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Charone Achieves Stage
Success Despite Make-Up

VICTORIA BELYEU DIAZ

Special to The Jewish News

I

rwin Charone hates to
wear make-up.
Irwin Charone is not
stage-struck.
Irwin Charone never
wanted to be an actor.
Nevertheless, he's been ap-
plying the greasepaint and
breathing life into character
after character for more than
40 years now What's more, he
loves it.
Now appearing in Neil
Simon's Broadway Bound at
the Birmingham Theater,
he's spent most of his career
on the stage. But the veteran
actor with the mellifluous
voice has also appeared on
television in almost every
major series, and in movies,
with stars like Doris Day (The
Thrill Of It All) and Goldie
Hawn (Cactus Flower).
Charone, who plays the can-
tankerous Ben in Simon's
comedy-drama set out to
become a radio announcer.
But his plans were per-
manently set aside when he
was "discovered" by a pro-
ducer at the Goodman
Theater in Chicago, where he
was studying voice and
diction.
"She looked at me one day
as I was coming down a flight
of stairs, and said 'You're. the
king!'," he said recently tak-
ing time out backstage to
recall his career. "And, before
I knew it, I was putting on a
fake beard and acting the
role. That was 1945 — the
first time I ever stepped on to
a stage?'
After going on to several
other successful acting roles
in Chicago, Charone was off
to New York and the
American Theater Wing,
where he began studying
method acting with the likes
of Marlon Brando and Rod
Steiger.
"I couldn't buy The Method,
though," he said. "I didn't
understand why everybody
was whispering. They'd ask
me to critique a scene and I'd
say I couldn't, because I
hadn't heard what anybody
was saying. So, they'd throw
me out of class.
"I had great respect for the
fine actors who came out of it,
but I just didn't pay any at-
tention to it myself. I was
always leaving, anyway.
Somebody would say to me,
`You can do such-and-such off-
Broadway for $60 a week!'
And I'd say 'No, I've got a job
in Dubuque that pays $175 —

,

N. .3/4.
Irwin Charone portrays the grandfather in the Birmingham Theater
production of 'Broadway Bound.'

and that's where I'm going?'
Charone said he's always
considered himself a "work-
ing actor," meaning he's acted
mainly to support himself
and his family, and not
because he's ever felt any
great, artistic calling to the
theater.
"When I found out you
could get paid for all this, and
they didn't put you in jail for
stealing — that was it for me,"
he said. "I know that certain
actors are stage-struck. But I
don't care about that at all. If
somebody says, 'Here's a
celebrity, some actors thrive
on that. I don't. I never did. I
do not like it. It embarrasses
me for some reason.
"At the same time, though,
I've always felt very comfor-
table on the stage."
Shortly after marriage to
opera singer Eileen Schauler
in 1954, Charone launched a
second career of sorts when
he began appearing in
musicals. Although he'd
never sung professionally, he
found that the voice and dic-
tion he'd studied when look-
ing toward a career in radio
served him well on the
musical stage.
In one of his earliest
musical performances, he ap-
peared at a small theater in
St. Charles, Ill., with a very
young singer-dancer from
Boston in Annie Get Your
Gun.

"Her name was Lee
Remick," Charone said, smil-
ing. "I don't know what ever
happened to her . . ."
Later he would sing and
dance — in Hollywood, New
York, and points between —
with performers Eddie Foy
Jr., Julie Wilson, Patrice
Munsel, Sandy Duncan, Red
Skelton, Fred Astaire, Lucille
Ball, Jim Dale, Gale Gordon
and others. Along the way, he
formed close friendships with
both Foy (whom he met when

'When I found out
you could get paid
for all this, and
they didn't put you
in jail for stealing
that was it for

they performed in a Los
Angeles Civic Light Opera
production of Show Boat
together) and Gale Gordon
(who appeared with him in
another LACLO production,
The Merry Widow, and who
would later co-star with
Charone in Neil Simon's The
Sunshine Boys).
Speaking of his present role,
Charone said he'd never seen
a production of Broadway
Bound before going into
rehearsals (in fact, though
he's performed in two of them
— The Sunshine Boys and