Matthew Risch was Thomas Sadoski's standby in OTHER DESERT CITIES Off-Broadway. Not sure if he's still with the Broadway company, as I don't have my playbill in front of me. (Stands to reason, though, as he and Mantello are a couple) He also played Sky Masterson in GUYS AND DOLLS over the summer at Barrington.
I agree with newintown re: his performance as Pal Joey. Completely competent, nothing exciting at all.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body