"Michael Gruber takes on the Bing Crosby role in "White Christmas" with panache. Gruber croons as beautifully as he dances - from the title tune to the tender 'Count Your Blessings.'"--Queen Anne News

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"As the successful song and dance act, “Wallace and Davis,” Michael Gruber and Greg McCormick Allen are convincing headliners. Their big number, “Let Yourself Go,” blows the house wide open. Michael Gruber brings the first act to a big finale with a gorgeously staged “Blue Skies” that is as elegant as it is grand."--SeattleActor.com

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"Gruber's warm tenor injected a quiet passion into the fetching 'Blue Skies'".--Woodland Daily Democrat

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"Gruber does Bing Crosby (who played the movie role) maybe better than Bing himself, because Gruber is livelier."--King County Journal

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"Gruber, as the all-business-no-social-life song-and-dance man Bob Wallace, has both the charisma and chops to essay the role Bing Crosby brought to the screen in the material's 1954 film debut...When talents such as Gruber and [Christina Saffran] Ashford are singing 'Love and the Weather' and 'Count Your Blessings,' you don't need much else. The couple also have a sublime duet on 'Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me' and 'How Deep Is the Ocean.'" --Sacramento Bee


Bio:
MICHAEL GRUBER (Bob Wallace). Broadway: Mike in A Chorus Line, (final co.) Munkustrap in Cats,(both on Broadway and in the film), Tin man in The Wizard of Oz (with Roseanne), both Bill and Hortensio in Kiss Me Kate and the original companies of Swing!, Miss Saigon, Laughing Room Only and My Favorite Year. Favorite Regional roles include: Billy Buck Chandler in My One and Only (Reprise! L.A.) Jesus in Godspell, Saul in Rags (Walnut Street) Phil Davis in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Boston 2005), Stanley Donen in the world premier of What a Glorious Feeling (Mason Street Warehouse), Billy in Anything Goes (Stratford Festival, CA), Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, Young Ben in Follies, Fingers in Red, Hot and Blue (Paper Mill Playhouse), Whizzer in Falsettos (Alliance, Atlanta), Jud in Oklahoma (Arizona Theater Co.), Sky in Guys and Dolls (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Cousin Kevin in Tommy (’99 Concert tour), Lucky in Dames at Sea (Goodspeed), and Bobby in Crazy for You (PCPA Theaterfest). Recordings include: Follies, 42nd Street, Singin’ in the Rain, Wonderful Town, The Most Happy Fella, Good News, Swing!, My Favorite Year and The Music Man. www.MichaelGruberLibrary.com