Dennis Constantine

 Dennis Pascal Constantine  (08 May, 1956 - ) is a former actor.

 Birthplace:  Jeffersonville, IN

 News Article (1984) 

"The money is great, but Uncle Sam gets nearly half. The glamour is exciting, but the struggle takes the edge off. And it's always a push to keep one's energy off. Still, there's always a different audience and a different reaction." So says Dennis Constantine, 27, a native of Jeffersonville, Ind. He is playing Asher, one of Joseph's 11 brothers, in the musical, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. Final performances are at 2 and 7 p.m. today. Constantine, who has been on the road with the show for six months, says, "It's great to see my parents and have some home-cooked meals." He's staying with his parents, John and Nicki Constantine, in Jeffersonville. When the pressure of living and traveling with 25 people gets to him, Constantine thinks about Jeffersonville High School choir and music director John Cleveland. "He taught me a lot more than choir. Priorities, goals. Never to give up on your dreams." At such times, Constantine also turns to his journal. "It's an emotional outlet. Then I go back a few months later and laugh about some of the things that got to me earlier." He tells us how he broke into show business. "When I arrived in New York, I was making $75 a week on unemployment. I told myself I would study as hard as I could — acting, singing, dancing — for six months. And I did. Then I started auditioning. The first part I tried for, I got." It was in a musical revue on a cruise ship. After seven months, he returned to New York and waited tables for a year and a half until the "Dreamcoat" tour came along. "I knew it had to happen some time and it finally did." Eight days after the show closed Sept. 4 on Broadway, Constantine began work with the touring company. He had five days "to watch and catch on." When the show opened in West Point, N.Y. "I had some problems with a few dance steps. A week later, everything went together fine." He finds "the most frustrating thing about a road show is the theaters. Some don't have enough fly space or wing space to accommodate the sets. People only see half of the show." That's not the case at the Kentucky Center which Constantine finds "great. I'm proud of it. It's exciting to see Louisville grow. I left in 1976 when it was just beginning to happen. There's a sense of civic pride here that New York just doesn't have — but needs." "Dreamcoat" will go to Florida, zigzag through the Midwest, play four weeks in Boston and may go to the West Coast. The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice show "has been very successful. It's already paid back in New York, that's unheard of."

— Anne Skinner, The Courier-Journal, 25 March, 1984

 What he does nowadays 

He lives in NYC.