A veteran of stage, television, film and voice work, Tony Jay has pursued his career all over the world...from Great Britain to the U.S.A...from the Far East and Middle East to Africa...you have seen and heard him innumerable times without necessarily putting a name to the face or voice. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company of Great Britain, Tony has performed in the theater on Broadway and in London's West End, playing mainly classic roles in Shaw, Shakespeare and Checkov. His stage career reached its zenith in 1985 when he played the lawyer Jaggers in an Old Vic presentation of Great Expectations, hih he followed up in 1986 with the role of Crummels in the Royal Shakespeare Company's landmark production of Nicholas Nickelby seen in Los Angeles and on Broadway. His film work includes appearances with Arnold Schwartzenegger, Danny de Vito, Woddy Allen, Karl Malden, Kim Basinger and Dan Ayckroyd to name a few. His television performances are too numerous to mention in their entirety, but some of his most memorable roles include: Beauty and the Beast(as the arch-villain Paracelsus), Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Hunter, Newhart, Night Court, Star Trek, Lois and Clark, Sisters, and most recently, The Burning Zone. Tony has a remarkable career in voice acting too, being heard in literally hundreds of TV and radio commercials and in many cartoon series such as Mighty Max, Bruno the Kid, Tale Spin, Savage Dragon, ReBoot and many more... For Disney, his first full-length animated film featured him as Monsier D'arque in Beauty and the Beast and currently in the role of Judge Claude Frollo in the Hunchback of Notre Dame, a portrayal that has been called "probably the best Disney villain to date." He is British but has recently become a U.S. citizen of which he is very proud. "Poet on Broadway" is his first solo recording and reveals his passion for the Broadway musical as it once was and as he hopes it will be again. Musically, Tony has been experimenting with multi-track recordings for a number of years, using electronic 'samples;' the best result produces the effect of a large concert orchestra. Everyting you hear on this recording - the arrangements, the playing and the spoken word - are entirely the work of Tony Jay, at one and the same time the man and the artist. About "Poets on Broadway" Tony Jay's "Poets on Broadway" All content created by Saí Kennedy on wingedsonar.com is © 2000-2009 to Saí Kennedy "Poets on Broadway" is Copyright 1996 Cornucopia Productions Inc.