Michael Tolan Mary's night-school teacher & boyfriend. He also made guest appearances on such television series as "Mannix", "Kojak", "Nichols", "The Outer Limits", "McMillan and Wife", and "Law & Order". His last known television appearance was on an episode of "Murder, She Wrote" in 1994. Tolan appeared in the Bob Fosse film "All That Jazz" (1979) as lead character Joe Gideon's cardiologist, Dr. Ballinger. Tolan also helped found the American Place Theatre, of which he wrote: “We wanted to attract some of the writers who wrote fine, intelligent, deep material about American life, and see if we could interest them in writing
Ralph Burns Allen's "Bananas". Burns worked with film-director Bob Fosse and in 1972 won the Academy Award as music supervisor for "Cabaret". He composed the film scores for "Lenny" (1974) and Martin Scorsese's jazz-themed "New York, New York" (1977). Fosse again employed Burns to create the soundtrack for "All That Jazz" for which he also won an Academy Award in 1979. He then worked on "Urban Cowboy" (1980) and in 1982, Burns received another Academy Award nomination for his work in "Annie". His work for the stage was also notable. "Baryshnikov on Broadway" in 1980 earned Burns an Emmy Award for his