David Garrison (born June 30, 1952 in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American actor, who played the character Steve Rhoades on the television show, Married... with Children from 1987 to 1990. Before this role, he had starred with Jason Bateman on the sitcom It's Your Move (1984 – 1985). June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Map of Long Branch in Monmouth County Long Branch is a City located in Monmouth County, New Jersey. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Married… with Children was a long-running American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago. ... Jason Bateman Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969 in Rye, New York) is an American actor, born to an American father and a Maltese mother. ... Its Your Move was a short-lived NBC sitcom starring Jason Bateman (before The Hogan Family and Arrested Development), Tricia Cast (who was later on The Young and The Restless), Caren Kaye, Ernie Sabella (The Lion Kings Pumbaa), and David Garrison (who would later play Steve Rhoades on...

Although he is most widely known for his television roles and he continues to be seen frequently in guest starring roles on television today, Garrison is primarily a theater actor, particularly in musicals. He has appeared in numerous productions around the United States, including many Broadway shows. He also has many recordings of various musicals to his singing credit. David has starred on Broadway in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine for which he received a Tony nomination, Titanic, Torch Song Trilogy, The Pirates of Penzance, Bells are Ringing and Off-Broadway in I Do! I Do!. Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein, running in New York City from June 10, 1982, to May 19, 1985 at the Little Theatre (now the Helen Hayes Theatre on West 44th Street). ... Poster announcing the copyright performance at the Bijou Theatre, Paignton The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... I Do! I Do! is a 1966 Broadway musical based on the Jan de Hartog play The Fourposter with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and Score by Harvey Schmidt. ...

He played Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (national tour), the Devil in Randy Newman's Faust, Henry Carr in Travesties (Williamstown), Frosch in Die Fledermaus (Santa Fe Opera), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in Wicked (national tour) and Charley in the Arena Stage revival of Merrily We Roll Along for which he received the Helen Hayes Award. Guys and Dolls is a successful 1950 musical. ... Randy Newmans Faust is a 1995 musical by American musician and songwriter Randy Newman, who based the work on the classic story of Faust. ... Travesties is a comedic play by Tom Stoppard, first produced in 1975. ... Scene from the 1984 version. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The following is taken from the Arena Stage website: Arena Stage today stands as a flagship American theater. ... A revival is a restaging of a former hit play at a later date. ... Merrily We Roll Along is a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, and a musical loosely based on it by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. ... A Helen Hayes Award is a theater award named for the famed actress Helen Hayes to recognize excellence in the professional theater in the Washington, D.C./Potomac (USA) area since 1983. ...

Other television credits include Law & Order, The Practice, Without a Trace, Everybody Loves Raymond, NYPD Blue, Judging Amy, Murphy Brown, Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, Tom Clancy's Op-Center and, for PBS Great Performances, On The Town with the London Symphony and Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall. Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... The Practice was a long-running (March 4, 1997 - May 16, 2004) ABC legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston, Massachusetts law firm. ... For other uses, see Without a Trace (disambiguation). ... Everybody Loves Raymond, sometimes referred to in the abbreviated form Raymond, was a popular and long-running American sitcom that was produced from 1996 to 2005 and broadcast on CBS. The show revolved around the life of Ray Barone, a Newsday sportswriter from Lynbrook, Long Island who lives with his... NYPD Blue was a long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... Judging Amy is a 138-episode television drama that aired from September 19, 1999 until May 3, 2005 on CBS. The show starred Amy Brenneman of NYPD Blue and Tyne Daly of Cagney & Lacey. ... Murphy Brown was an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988 to May 18, 1998. ... Murder, She Wrote is a long-running television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. ... The L.A. Law opening title featured a personalized license plate mounted on a Jaguar. ... Tom Clancys Op-Center is a book series, created by Tom Clancy. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... Great Performances was a television series devoted to the performing arts which ran on the US television station PBS from 1972. ... On the Town is a musical that opened on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre on December 28, 1944, with music by Leonard Bernstein, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, direction by George Abbott, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. ... There are two famous pieces of music known as the London Symphony: by Joseph Haydn; see Symphony No. ...

Garrison enjoyed his years playing Steve Rhoades, but he missed performing in live theater, and asked to be let out of his contract. (Despite this, he was a regular on a short-lived NBC sitcom, Working It Out, in 1990 shortly after his exit from Married... with Children.) A going-away present from the producers of Married... with Children was a blown-up police mug shot of himself as Rhoades, with the caption "Gotta sing, gotta dance, gotta fucking starve to death." Woring It Out was a situation comedy broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1990 fall lineup. ... Al Capone. ...

Nonetheless, Garrison parted on good terms, returning four times in subsequent seasons (and the reunion special) detailing the career Rhoades had pursued since he'd last been seen.

He is currently playing the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the Broadway musical Wicked.

External links

• David Garrison at the Internet Movie Database
• Gershwin Theatre Broadway now showing Wicked The Musical