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Southfield native Danny Gurwin lands role
in Broadway smash hit.

ALICE BURDICK SCHWEIGER

Special to the Jewish News

0 nce again, Southfield native
Danny Gurwin is on a New
York stage.
This time he's starring in
one of Broadway's smash hits — The
Full Monty. An
Americanized musical
adaptation of the
British movie of the
same name, the show
is about likeable, laid-
off blue-collar work-
ers from Buffalo who
become unlikely strip-
pers in order to raise
cash.
As in the movie,
there is full exposure,
making this thespian
experience different
from his others. "At
first it was a little
Danny Gurwin
weird," Gurwin says,
laughing about the
brief nude scene at
the end of the show.
"But you get used to it, and that's not
what the show is about."
Gurwin landed the plum role of
Malcolm on Broadway while touring
with the road company of The Full

Monty.
"Because of the events of Sept. 11,
attendance was down," Gurwin says.
"So the producers canceled the tour
after we played in Toronto and
Chicago.
"Coincidentally, the original
Broadway cast members were going to
London, so five of us from the road
company got calls to come to New
York.
"I had auditioned for a part in the
show [for its Broadway opening], but
didn't get it — so I got lucky."
It wasn't just luck that brought
Gurwin back to Broadway. He has
been acting since childhood and has a
long list of theatrical credits to his
name. He did his first show at age 8,
when he played Little Jake in Annie
Get Your Gun at a dinner theater in
Detroit. It was a show staged by his
mother, Nancy Gurwin.

A 1990 graduate of Southfield-
Lathrup High School, he performed in
many school plays, including
Oklahoma, Arsenic and Old Lace and
Brighton Beach Memoirs. As a major in.
the musical theater department at
University of Michigan, he starred in
Pal Joey, Brigadoon, Company and The

Heidi Chronicles.
After graduating
from college in
1994, Gurwin
moved first to
Washington, D.C.,
and then to New
York City, waiting
tables to supple-
ment his income
while working in
regional theater.
"My first big show
in New York was
Shakespeare's R 6 1,
for which I got
great reviews, and
that opened doors
for more work," he
recalls.
Gurwin's Off-
Broadway credits include Captains
Courageous, A Majority of One and A
New Brain. He made his Broadway
debut in The Scarlet Pimpernel, a play
that originally starred Detroit's
Douglas Sills.
Doing The Full Monty in New York
under the bright lights of Broadway
has been very exciting, Gurwin says,
despite the inevitable glitches. The
revealing moments during the finale
are supposed to be quick and dimly
lit, but "about a month ago something
happened with the lighting cue and
the lights stayed on, so we really went
`the full monty.'"
Gurwin's contract lasts through
.
January 2003. "It's such a great part
and I am having such a good time," he
says. "I would like to stay in the show
as long as I can."

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The Full Monty plays at the
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 W.
49th St., in New York City. $30-
$90. (212) 239-6200.

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