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If you visit Anthony s blog, TheaterTalkBuffalo.Com, you can read the following: Marc-Jon Filippone, a seven-time Artie Award nominated actor, with an acerbic wit and vivid personality has died from COVID-19 complicated by diabetes. Once a fixture on the Western New York musical theater scene, Filippone played a wide array of character roles. The Artie nominated performances alone demonstrate an impressive range: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well ., Baby, Mack and Mabel, Romance/Romance, Putting it Together, A New Brain, andWorking. Other memorable roles include numerous appearances in The Fantasticks, as the chairman in Mystery of Edwin Drood, and as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. He worked everywhere from Desiderio s Dinner Theatre to Theatre of Youth. ....