Broadway actor John Cunningham, 93, died on Jan. 6. Between 1963 and 2002, Cunningham appeared on Broadway in such shows as Hot Spot (the second veteran of that doomed show to die recently), Cabaret (as Cliff, replacing Bert Convy), Zorba, 1776, Company (as Peter, and replacing Dean Jones as Bobby), California Suite, The Sisters Rosensweig, Titanic, and Anything Goes, among others. He also turned up on the big and small screens in Another World, Search for Tomorrow, Matilda, Key Exchange, Miami Vice, Mystic Pizza, Dead Ports Society, Six Degrees of Separation, In & Out, Law & Order, and The Good Wife. Cunningham told Playbill, "I sometimes feel I'm a character actor trapped inside this WASP look, but one cannot fight that. Inevitably, I'm cast to type.” He added that “In theater you get to do it again, and again, and again. My whole pleasure is trying to get better. So my ritual is to take time with myself, review what has happened, prepare myself so that inspiration can happen to me in the moment onstage. Be prepared to be alive."
