Broadway Producer / Record Producer
Website: www.rondante.com
Email: rondante@yahoo.com
Ron Dante is one of those rare multi-talented individuals capable of making a mark in many fields. Among theatergoers, however, Dante is best known for his work on Broadway. In addition to producing two Tony Award-winning Broadway shows – Ain’t Misbehavin’, which earned him a Tony for Best Musical, and Children of a Lesser God, which took the Tony for Best Drama – Dante was behind such critically acclaimed plays as Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Crimes of the Heart, Duet For One, and Neil Simon’s Little Me.
Rivaling Ron’s successes as a Broadway producer are his incredible achievements as a record producer. To date, records he has produced have sold over 100 million copies. Among the many major recording artists he has worked with are Cher, Dionne Warwick, Pat Benatar, Irene Cara, Ray Charles, and John Denver.
His most famous collaboration was with Barry Manilow, co-producing the singer’s first nine albums. Manilow’s greatest hits, the signature songs that made pop music history, were all produced by Dante: “Mandy,” “I Write the Songs,” “Could It Be Magic,” and the Grammy-winning “Copacabana.”