Jason Alexander Career Retrospective | Conversations on Broadway

Jason Alexander discusses his incredible acting career including stories about Seinfeld, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Chita Rivera, Martin Short, Larry David, Robert De Niro and Dick Van Dyke. Moderated by BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge of "Backstage with Richard Ridge!" Part of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Conversations series.
JASON ALEXANDER's talents have produced a diverse career spanning four decades. Broadway: (orig. cast) Merrily We Roll Along; The Rink; Broadway Bound; Accomplice; Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic awards) and the LA production of The Producers with Martin Short. Notable films: Pretty Woman; Jacob's Ladder; Love/Valor/Compassion; Dunston Checks In; Hunchback of Notre Dame; Rocky and Bullwinkle; Shallow Hal. TV: “Seinfeld” (7 Emmy noms., 2 Golden Globe noms., 4 SAG awards, 2 American Comedy Awards); “Bob Patterson;” “Listen Up;” Bye Bye Birdie; Cinderella; “Monk;” “Criminal Minds;” “Voyager.” Director: For Better or Worse; “Criminal Minds;” “Mike and Molly;” “Franklin and Bash;” “Everybody Hates Chris.” Brad Paisley's ONLINE video (Country Music Award). Jason is currently the voice of Goji on Sprout's “Kody Kapow.” He is the co-creator, Executive Producer and star of the new fall series “Hit The Road,” which debuts this October on DirecTV's Audience network.
0:00 Intro
0:17 The Portuguese Kid
3:00 Working with John Patrick Shanley
5:30 The Role of Barry Dragonetti
9:20 Growing Up
12:26 Early Ambitions To Act
14:28 Larry Moss
17:40 Sondheim Story
20:18 Chita Rivera Story
22:45 Neil Simon's 'Broadway Bound'
24:42 Jerome Robbins
31:02 Seinfeld Audition
32:23 Seinfeld's slow journey to success
34:55 The cast of Seinfeld
36:50 Larry David
40:11 Playing George Costanza
41:35 What Jason missed when Seinfeld ended
42:42 Auditioning
45:00 Fish in the Dark
47:47 Martin Short in The Producers
49:32 Commercial Work
50:42 Directing Work
52:30 Joe Mantello, Love! Valour! Compassion!
57:27 First film, The Burning, with Holly Hunter
59:00 Star Trek and William Shatner
1:00:40 Pretty Woman, Shallow Hal
1:01:10 Rocky & Bulwinkle with Robert De Niro
1:02:13 Bye Bye Birdie and Dick Van Dyke
1:03:34 Cinderella
1:04:48 Voiceover work
1:06:59 Hit The Road
1:10:23 Least favorite moments on Seinfeld
1:12:05 The Marine Biologist episode
1:13:58 Character work
1:14:22 Staying grounded
1:17:58 Best piece of advice

[@mauradonahue9647]

loved hearing his stories. What an amazing actor

[@randycunningham7318]

Big fan of this actor.

[@katieorjonikidze-casey6516]

Great person, great actor.

[@ChristianNelsonn]

Jason Alexander is underrated.

[@wheedler]

@@octavius8562 Unless he's won every award ever and received perfect ratings across the board, it's possible for him to be considered underrated.

[@cbstevp]

That toilet story on stage he told would have been a perfect George Constanza moment on Seinfeld.

[@Lessdeth14]

Always an entertaining listen, but the question "what keeps you so grounded?" made me spit out my coffee in laughter. Jason Alexander is a man of many talents, and he's not shy to tell you.

[@basehead617]

It's funny to watch him answer some of these questions the same exact way in multiple videos lol

[@scottlynchdc]

That was awesome!!

[@vassa1972]

Jason is great, missed him in Seinfeld

[@trance111]

needs more comments and love❤

[@succulentsavory4904]

🏆🎥⭐️

[@HiRye]

He's George. Period. He needs to accept that.

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

No matter what else he does.

[@MekonenMeteor123]

Magic Camp HA 😂😂

[@rich926]

Jerry wasn't even funny. George, kramer, and Elaine were hilarious!

[@randycunningham7318]

Jerry, George, and Kramer were all the funniest to me. Elaine was the token woman. She was ok.

[@meddem1744]

Jerry was definitely funny