Purchase College, State University of New York’s Broadway Technical Theatre History Project will present the Eleventh “Backstage Legends and Masters Award” to Michael Wyatt on Monday, April 28, 2025 at 7 p.m. at The Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall Theatre, located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY. This free event is open to the public and will be streamed live via Zoom Webinar (www.purchase.edu/btthp). It will also be recorded for future viewing. After working on a range of non-Broadway productions in NYC, around the United States, and internationally, Wyatt started his Broadway career in 1978 as the assistant carpenter for automation on the musical production of Whoopee! and then spent the next four and a half decades helping to shape and support a host of Broadway productions.
Wyatt joins previous Backstage Legends and Masters honorees Artie Siccardi (2012), Arnold Abramson (2013), Fred Gallo (2014), Gene O’Donovan (2015), Pete Feller, Sr. (2016), Joseph B. Forbes (2017), Alyce Gilbert (2018), David Rosenberg (2019), William M. (Michael) Mensching (2023), and Bill Gorlin (2024).