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Brian Charles Rooney is an American actor and singer. Technically a sopranist [1] (sopranista or male soprano), he has also sung high tenor roles in theatrical productions in the United States, Canada, and Europe. [2] [ non-primary source needed ]
He made his Broadway debut in The Roundabout Theatre Company's 2006 revival of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera in the role of Lucy Brown. [3] [4] [5]
As a tenor, he played Tony on a European tour of the American musical West Side Story . [6] He has been featured in musical and non-musical theatrical productions in such cities as San Francisco, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Dallas. He has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. [6]
In 2013, as a pop-rock singer-songwriter, he began performing original material in concert venues in New York City. [7] His collaborator is Paul Leschen, composer and arranger for the rock-band, The Scissor Sisters. [8] Rooney's recent ventures in concert performance and production in New York City have been greeted positively. [9]
Rooney starred as General George B. McClellan in the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Bayonets of Angst , a bluegrass musical comedy about the Civil War. [10] He was awarded a New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence for "Outstanding Individual Performance". [11]