Jay Johnson (ventriloquist)
- Jay Johnson (ventriloquist)
infobox actor
birthdate=birth date and age|1949|7|11
birthplace=Lubbock, Texas
Jay Johnson (born July 11, 1949 in Lubbock, Texas) is a ventriloquist best known for his role on the television show "Soap". He played Chuck Campbell, a ventriloquist who believed his puppet Bob was real and demanded everyone treat Bob as real. Chuck never went anywhere (even on dates) without his dummy Bob, who was basically said all the things that Chuck was too polite (or repressed) to say.
Jay Johnson also starred Broken Badges a 1990 Stephen Cannell CBS television production where he played a psychologically depressed police officer named Stanley Jones. He also appeared as a celebrity guest on many game shows and hosted two of his own, So You Think You Got Troubles 1983 and Celebrity Charades 1979.
Jay won the 2007 "Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event" for ""
This one man theatrical show which he wrote and performed, "" opened on Broadway to rave reviews at the Helen Hayes Theatre on September 28, 2006. This was proceeded by an acclaimed off Broadway run at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York. The show also performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre, Cambridge, MA, and the Brentwood and Colony Theater Company in Los Angeles. The Cambridge performance garnered the New England Critics Award, and in Los Angeles Jay received the 2006 Ovation Award for Best Solo Performance.
"The Two and Only" deconstructs and demonstrates Jay's lifelong obsession with the art of ventriloquism. The show is a Valentine not only to the art but his mentor and friend Arthur Sieving who created Jay's first professional puppet. The show is aided and abetted by a cast of ventriloquated characters, including his "SOAP" alter ego, Bob.
Jay Johnson is the first and only ventriloquist to ever be nominated and win an American Theatre Wing Tony Award or an Ovation Award.
The original Bob puppet featured on SOAP was inducted into the Smithsonian Institutions collections of pop culture icons in May, 2007.
External links
* [http://thetwoandonly.com/ Jay Johnson: The Two and Only - Official Broadway Website]
* [http://www.monkeyjoke.com Jay Johnson's official site]
*imdb name|id=0425318|name=Jay Johnson
* [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=408471 IBDB]
* [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/98562.html Playbill article]
* [http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/soap-audio-interview-with-ventriloquist-jay-johnson-chuck-bob-part-one/ Extended audio interview with Jay Johnson about Soap]
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