Tom Walz (
Dick Cummings) has appeared on the L.A. stage in American Midget (MET Theatre), I’d Rather Be Right (Hudson Maintstage) and Red, Hot and Blue and Tip-Toes (both at the Whitefire Theatre), as well as several short films. Other favorite stage credits include Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Medea (Jason), Tape (Vince), Singin’ in the Rain (Don), Rashomon, The Tempest, The School for Wives, and Return to the Forbidden Planet. Born in Ohio, Tom grew up in Minnesota, and earned a B.A. from Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) in music and computer science.
I met Tom two years ago when we made up two-thirds of the male ensemble in a production of Cole Porter's Red Hot and Blue. We played senators, gangsters and other assorted parts. There's a reason they don't write shows like that anymore. It was madcap!
ReplyDeleteI asked Tom to fill in for the actor playing Dick at the first reading of The Playhouse. We were so impressed with his take on Dick that when the other actor was unable to commit to the shoot, I was kind of glad he couldn't do it. Tom turned about to be the perfect Dick.
I can't imagine anyone else as Dick.