Meet ‘Pippin’s Charles, Brendon Schaeffer
On stage through November 18 at Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre is Pippin. Playing the role of Pippin’s demanding father and King of the Holy Roman Empire, Charlemagne, is Brendon Schaeffer.
This is Schaeffer’s twelfth Prather Entertainment Group production. He was last seen at Broadway Palm in the national tour of The Wedding Singer. Among his favorite credits Gallimard in M. Butterfly (Columbia Stages, NYC), Deisel in West Side Story (MWVTC, NH), and his 2014 Fellowship with H
enry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Shakespeare Theatre Co., DC). Brendon holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from State University of New York College at Fredonia.
When he’s not on stage, Brandon freelances as a photographer and videographer and works as a leasing assistant at TF Cornerstone. Brandon also spent a year as Host of the Illusionarium aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line’s Getaway.
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