He labored on 'Chicago,' 'The Lion King' and each Neil Simon play from 1990-2009 and co-founded the acclaimed Encores! Nice American Musicals in Live performance collection.
Jay Binder, who served because the casting director for practically 100 Broadway productions, from Misplaced in Yonkers, Laughter on the twenty third Ground and The King and I to Chicago, The Lion King and A Gentleman’s Information to Love & Homicide, has died. He was 71.
Binder died peacefully Friday at his dwelling on the Higher West Facet of Manhattan, a publicist introduced. The reason for loss of life has not been decided.
A local of South Orange, New Jersey, Binder forged each Neil Simon play from 1990 by way of 2009 and acquired 11 Artios Awards from the Casting Society of America, the best honor in casting.
He additionally acquired Tony noms as a producer in 1998 and 2010 for the revivals of Finian’s Rainbow and The Sound of Music, respectively. He forged these, after all, and in addition labored on Tony-winning productions of Dames at Sea, Good Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, Magnificence and the Beast and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.
In 1994, Binder co-founded the Encores! Nice American Musicals in Live performance collection at New York Metropolis Heart. His work casting this acclaimed collection led to the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, which opened in 1996.
“I labored hand-in-glove with Jay for twenty years,” Jack Viertel, who served because the collection’ inventive director from 2000-20, stated in an announcement. “He was all the time probably the most educated, passionate and feistiest individual within the room. He beloved actors and wished each one in every of them to succeed. I’ll miss that spirit, that optimism and that deep nicely of data endlessly.”
Binder forged the Emmy-winning 1991-93 NBC collection I’ll Fly Away, starring Regina Taylor and Sam Waterston, and the 2013 HBO particular Six by Sondheim and served because the East Coast casting director for Warner Bros. Tv for 5 years.
On for the large display screen, he labored Chicago (2002), Dreamgirls (2006), Hairspray (2007) and 9 (2009).
Binder was a creative marketing consultant for Disney World and Nationwide Artists Administration Co. and a artistic marketing consultant on the 2001 PBS particular, My Favourite Broadway: The Love Songs, hosted by Julie Andrews.
Binder was the affiliate director of Lolita and Blissful New 12 months on Broadway; directed the premiere manufacturing of Love and Different Fables at Theatre by the Sea in Rhode Island; and labored as a director at quite a few regional theaters throughout the nation, with credit together with Current Laughter on the Performing Firm; Rex, Jumbo and Finest Foot Ahead on the York Theatre Firm; and Say Sure! on the Berkshire Theatre Pageant.
In 2016, his firm, Binder Casting, was acquired by RWS Leisure Group, and he served because the director of theatrical growth at RWS till his retirement in July 2020.
A memorial shall be introduced at a later date.