fraternity, the Grand Order of Water Rats, as a full member. Personal life Rees lived in the United States for more than 25 years and became a naturalized American citizen in 1989. He converted to Judaism in the 1980s. Rees married his partner of 33 years, playwright Rick Elice, in 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage in New York was legalised. Rees and Elice also collaborated professionally, including as co-playwrights of the comedic thriller Double Double. Elice co-wrote (with Marshall Brickman) the libretto for The Addams Family musical, the cast of which Rees had joined on 22 March 2011. In 2012, Elice and Rees received Tony Award nominations for Elice's stage adaptation and Rees' co-direction (with Alex Timbers), respectively, of Peter and the Starcatcher. In October 2017, Elice wrote a memoir of his life with Rees, entitled Finding Roger: An Improbably Theatrical Love Story. Illness and death After a diagnosis of brain cancer in October 2014, Rees focused his energy on his commitment to playing opposite Chita Rivera on Broadway in The Visit, the final musical written by John Kander and Fred Ebb. While undergoing two brain surgeries, two courses of radiation and ongoing chemotherapy, Rees managed to rehearse, preview and open in The Visit on 23 April 2015. By the middle of May, it had become too difficult for him to speak, and he left the show. Rees died at age 71 at his home in New York City on 10 July 2015. On Wednesday, 15 July 2015, the marquee lights at all the theatres on Broadway were dimmed in his honour. His ashes were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Two months later, there was a memorial service for him at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. On 16 November 2015, Rees was inducted, posthumously, into the Broadway Theatre Hall of Fame. Filmography Film Television Theatre The Comedy of Errors (as Antipholus of Syracuse), Stratford-on-Avon and London, 1976 Three Sisters (as Tusenbach) Stratford-upon-Avon London and tour, 1979 "The Suicide" by Nikolai Erdman (as Semyon Semyonovich). Royal Shakespeare Company. 1979. Cymbeline (as Posthumus), Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-on-Avon 1979 Cymbeline (as Posthumus), Royal National Theatre, 1980 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (as Nicholas Nickleby), Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre, London, June 1980 – June 1981 Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, September 1981 – March 1982 The Real Thing (as Henry), London, 1982 Hapgood by Tom Stoppard as Kerner, London March 1988 Hamlet as Hamlet,