It’s 1958 and Jack Paar is hosting The Tonight Show. He’s booked his favorite guest, a pundit as hilarious as he is unpredictable: Oscar Levant, who once famously proclaimed, “There’s a ...

The production’s supporting actors all have their moments in the spotlight, but Roll as Oscar remains the center of the show, even before he actually enters the stage in typical rumpled Levant ...

After spending months in 2023 understudying the role of pianist, composer and raconteur Oscar ... to “The Tonight Show” because of audience familiarity with the show on which Levant was ...

“Character” may be a loaded word for the person Roll is playing – concert pianist, composer, occasional film actor and witty storyteller Oscar Levant, who gained a different level of ...