Grand Marshall of the Purdue Homecoming Parade - 2019
Tom at Machu Picchu
Tom in Thailand
Tom in Myanmar
Tom boating with Rhys
Tom at 2016 Rio Olympics
Tom & the Cast of THE ROYAL FAMILY-Ahmanson Theatre-2004
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Corcovado-Rio, Brazil. (2011)
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Iguacu Falls, Argentina (2011)
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With Brothers Dale & Mike & Sister Kim-Ireland (2010)
Shane 2010
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Lake Arrowhead (2011)
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Trapeze (Take Off)-
60th Birthday Party
Trapeze Catch
60th Birthday Party
Tom
Tom & Family-Sailing in the San Juan Islands-Summer 2006
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2021
Since the last reunion:
Most of my time is spent between Los Angeles and Lake Arrowhead, California and NYC, NY
Activities: the Flying Trapeze, Water Skiing, Bicycling and the gym.
Travel: Myanmar, Morocco, India, Cuba, Scotland, Ireland, England, Australia
Professional Projects:
The documentary film: The Flight Fantastic, which had its first screening in Byron Bay, Australia, a film festival showing at the Sarasota Film Festival and premiered in LA at the Egyptian Theatre, and in NY at the Director’s Guild & Lincoln Center, and then opened in both cities for press and reviews. The film also screened at Purdue.
The website is: Theflightfantasticfilm.com and the Facebook page is: Facebook.com/theflightfantasticfilm
The film is now available for rent or sale at itunes, Amazon, Google Play, or Vimeo.
The book: Grease, Tell Me More…Tell Me More, (The Broadway phenomenon that started it all.) edited by Adrienne Barbeau, Ken Waissman and me has just been completed, and Chicago Review Press will be publishing the book next spring to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the Original Broadway Grease.
Served on the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (the union for directors) and am now on the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Drama.
Closer to Indiana: Lectured at the Ball Stage Theatre Dept. at the invitation of Joe Trimmer and Carol Straley, and was chosen for the Wall of Pride at WLHS.
Most fun of all, I got to be Grand Marshall at the Purdue 2019 Homecoming Parade.
And like so many of us, spend a lot of time and thought dealing with the loss of friends and family that is now so much a part of our lives.
2011
Tom 2011
Addendum: 2011
Work: Documentary (Untitled)-Now in Editing
Executive Board: Stage Directors and Choreographers
Travel (Recent): Cuba, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Ireland, Brazil,
Argentina, Chile
Fun: Flying Trapeze, Waterskiing, Biking
Time: Los Angeles, Lake Arrowhead, New York
2007
West Lafayette High School led
to Purdue University (B.A.) which led to Yale Drama School (M.F.A.) which
led to New York, which led to Los Angeles, which led to the world.
I have spent my career directing theatre, film, and television,
lecturing and teaching. My professional resume follows.
Mostly, I have lived in New York and Los Angeles, but have had wonderful
opportunites to travel throughout the United States and all over the
world.
It has been a profoundly lucky life, and I am very grateful.
Recently I was at Purdue for a reunion of theatre alumni. While there I
visited the grave of John Freehafer.
I was once again astounded at how long ago he died, but I was also
remarkably grateful for the lives we’ve been able to lead over these many,
many years since West Lafayette High School.
When I toured the new high school a while back, I found it impressive and
satisfying that the old high school had been totally absorbed into the
center of the new one. The old had ceased to exist in the service of
something greater. What could be better? (The old theatre was in part
now a wrestling room.; sort of ironic, as I had dropped out of wrestling
to pursue the theatre, which was painful at the time, but in retrospect, a
good choice!)
The Man Who Came to Dinner -- WLHS 1960
We keep reinventing ourselves and it has been a pleasure to see the lives
described in this amazing web site Jim Dammon has provided for us. (It’s
hard to believe that we who struggled to learn basic typing skills at WLHS
are now using those skills on computer keyboards, isn’t it?)
A number of years ago there was a musical in New York called IS THERE LIFE
AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? It seems the answer is yes.
Although I continue to direct, and have never tired of travel, about 10
years ago I discovered a new passion in the Circus Arts, and have spent a
good part of those years learning the skills of the flying trapeze. It
became a large part of my life. (I have included a couple of photos from
my 60th Birthday party which took the form of a circus, during which I and
a few of my group performed on the flying trapeze.)
I see no reason not to continue to do it all; so on to the next adventure.
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TOM MOORE - Professional Resume
In the theatre, Tom Moore is best known as the director of ‘NIGHT MOTHER
(with Kathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak) which won the Pulitzer prize, and
for which he received his second Tony nomination, and for the original
GREASE, which ran for eight years and is one of the longest running shows
in the history of Broadway. Over the years this production introduced
Barry Bostwick, John Travolta, Richard Gere, Peter Gallagher, Greg Evigan,
Treat Williams, Patrick Swayzee, Marilu Henner, Adrienne Barbeau, and
countless others who now work steadily in theatre, film, and television.)
His most recent Broadway production was MOON OVER BUFFALO with Carol
Burnett . A documentary, MOON OVER BROADWAY by Pennebaker-Hegedes, which
followed the production from rehearsals to the Broadway opening, has been
played in theatres, on television, and is now on video and DVD. His first
Tony nomination was for the direction of the Big Band Musical OVER HERE,
which brought the Andrews Sisters out of retirement. Other Broadway
productions include the critically acclaimed revival of ONCE IN A LIFETIME
(with John Lithgow, Deborah May, Treat Williams, and Jayne Meadows) at the
Circle-in-the Square, DIVISION STREET (with John Lithgow and Keene
Curtis), THE OCTETTE BRIDGE CLUB (with Peggy Cass, Elizabeth Franz, Nancy
Marchand and Anne Pitoniak), A LITTLE HOTEL ON THE SIDE (with Tony Randall
and Lynn Redgrave), and the short-lived, but legendary FRANKENSTEIN at
the Palace Theatre.
Mr. Moore has a long time association with the Mark Taper Forum in Los
Angeles where he directed Feydeau’s A FLEA IN HER EAR (with Rene
Aubujenois, Jeffrey Tambor, and Kenne Curtis), DIVISION STREET (premiere),
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY by Turgenev (with Michael Learned and Paul Shenar),
WILD OATS (for the Olympic Arts Festival,) ‘NIGHT MOTHER, and
Ayckbourne’s HENCEFORWARD (with Jane Krakowski and John Glover). In Los
Angeles he also directed HAY FEVER at the Ahmanson Theatre (with Celeste
Holm and Charles Kimbrough) and ONCE IN A LIFETIME in a special benefit
for the Los Angeles Classic Theatre Works (with John Lithgow, Marsha
Mason, Amy Irving, Helen Hunt, Ed Asner, Robert Foxworth), where he also
directed THE PENTAGON PAPERS. At the American Conservatory Theatre in San
Francisco, Mr. Moore directed KNOCK KNOCK, HOTEL PARADISO, THE LITTLE
FOXES and Chekhov’s THE THREE SISTERS. Also in San Francisco, he directed
THE BOYS IN AUTUMN with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. He directed LOOT
at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis; ONCE IN A LIFETIME (with Ed
Herman and Joan Pape) at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C.; OUR TOWN
(with Geraldine Fitzgerald as the stage manager), HAY FEVER (with Celeste
Holm & John Glover), and THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT (with Kathryn Helman) at
the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Mass.; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING
EARNEST (with Ellis Raab, Victor Garber and Harry Groener), FALLEN ANGELS,
and the world premiere of THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS at the Old Globe
Theatre in San Diego; TRAVELER IN THE DARK (with Sam Waterston, Phyllis
Somerville and Hume Cronyn) and ‘NIGHT MOTHER at the American Repertory
Theatre in Boston. He has directed two productions of Chekhov’s THE
CHERRY ORCHARD, one at the La Jolla Playhouse (with Lynn Redgrave), and
the other (with Marsha Mason) was the premiere stage production at the
LENSIC Center for Performing Arts for Santa Fe Stages. He also directed
the Brian Friel adaptation of A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY for Antaeus Theatre
Company.
Mr. Moore’s most recent stage production was WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL
ENDS, which was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and then
played at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and at the
Interact Theatre in Philadelphia.
He has also taught and directed at the State University of New York at
Buffalo, Brandeis University and the University of London, England. He
was artistic director of the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire, and he
has lectured at the Seminar in American Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He
directed the National touring companies of GREASE and ‘NIGHT MOTHER, and
presented ‘NIGHT MOTHER at the Spoletto Festival in Italy.
On film, Mr. Moore directed ‘NIGHT MOTHER with Sissy Spacek and Anne
Bancroft, and his short film JOURNEY, made for the American Film Institute
won two international film awards.
On television, he directed Disney’s first original musical for
television, GEPPETTO, starring Drew Carey and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss; ER
(Emmy nomination), MAD ABOUT YOU (Emmy nomination), L.A. LAW (Emmy
nomination), HUFF, MISMATCH, GILMORE GIRLS, ALLY MCBEAL, FELICITY,
LATELINE, NOTHING SACRED, DHARMA AND GREG, SUDDENLY SUSAN, SOMETHING SO
RIGHT, CYBILL, PRIDE & JOY, THIRTYSOMETHING, THE WONDER YEARS (The episode
“Square Dance” won the Humanitas Prize), ALMOST GROWN, CHEERS, PICKET
FENCES, CIVIL WARS, NORTHERN EXPOSURE, THE CLASS OF ‘96, GOOD COMPANY,
BOSTON COMMON, MAYBE IT’S ME, THE COURT, the late night FRIDAYS, and the
pilots of FIRST YEARS, 50-MINUTE MAN, AND THE FLAMINGO KID. He also
directed the television movies MAYBE BABY and FINE THINGS.
Mr. Moore is presently on the executive board of the Society of Stage
Directors and Choreographers.
Mr. Moore was a fellow at the American Film Institute, and he holds a B.A.
from Purdue University and an M.F.A. from the Yale University School of
Drama. He was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by Purdue
University.
As an avocation, Mr. Moore is also involved with the Circus Arts, and
spends as much time as possible on the flying
trapeze.
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