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
Fosse/Verdon biography of Bob Fosse, "Fosse". Steven Levenson was expected to serve as showrunner for the series and write the first episode, which was set to be directed by Thomas Kail. Executive producers were slated to consist of Levenson, Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams, and George Stelzner. Additionally, Nicole Fosse was set to serve as a co-executive producer and Andy Blankenbuehler as a co-producer. Production companies were expected to include Fox 21 Television Studios and FX Productions. On October 25, 2018, it was reported that Kail would direct a total of four of the eight episodes of the series.