 His first major Broadway credit was the ill-fated Stephen Sondheim/Hal Prince/George Furth musical "Merrily We Roll Along" (1981), which underwent constant changes during an unusually long preview period and closed after only sixteen performances.His next show, the Athol Fugard play ""Master Harold"...and the Boys", in which he portrayed a South African student opposite Danny Glover and Zakes Mokae as the family servants - ran for eight months.In 1989, he appeared as Jimmy Durante in the musical bio "Durante".