After serving his apprenticeship dancing and singing in the chorus and playing small roles in such Broadway productions as Rumple with Eddie Foy, Jr., Gretchen Wyler and Stephen Douglas, Say Darling directed by Abe Burrows and written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Julie Styne, and Irma La Douce directed by Peter Brook and starring Elizabeth Seal in her Tony Award winning performance, Mr. Gould leapt into the leading role of Harry Bogen in David Merrick's production of I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Barbra Streisand, directed by Herb Ross and Nora Kaye.

He then traveled across the Atlantic to appear in the Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Comden and Green classic On the Town at the Prince of Wales Theater on London's legendary West End.

He followed this as the court jester in the CBS TV special of Once Upon a Mattress starring Carol Burnett and staged by Joe Layton. He toured with...