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| x Hedda | Hedda Gabler | Rene Augesen | Hedda Gabler | ||
| x Jorgen Tesman | Hedda Gabler | Anthony Fusco | Hedda Gabler | ||
| x Juliane Tesman | Hedda Gabler | Sharon Lockwood | Hedda Gabler | ||
| x Thea Elvsted | Hedda Gabler | Finnerty Steeves | Hedda Gabler | ||
| x Commissioner Brack | Hedda Gabler | Jack Willis | Hedda Gabler | ||
| x Ejlert Lovborg | Hedda Gabler | Stephen Barker Turner | Hedda Gabler | ||
| x Berte | Hedda Gabler | Barbara Oliver | Hedda Gabler | ||
| x Marius | Jon Lee | Les Misérables | |||
| x Maxim DeWinter | Rebecca | ||||
| x Rebecca DeWinter | Rebecca | ||||
| x Mrs. Danvers | Rebecca | ||||
| x Vladimir | Waiting for Godot |
Vladimir (affectionately known as Didi; a small boy calls him Mr. Albert) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character") of Godot, he represents the...
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| x Estragon | Waiting for Godot | Bert Lahr | Waiting for Godot |
Estragon (affectionately Gogo; he tells Pozzo his name is Adam) is one of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is the French word for tarragon.
Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main...
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| Robin Williams | Waiting for Godot | ||||
| x Lucky |
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Waiting for Godot | Mehdi Bajestani | Waiting for Godot |
Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is a slave to the character Pozzo.
Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly: he only utters two sentences (one of which is more than seven hundred words...
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Waiting for Godot |
Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well").
On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano),...
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| x Wilhelm Reich |
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Wilhelm Reich in Hell |
Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. He was the author of several notable textbooks, including The Mass...
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| x Stevie | Pamela Reed | Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | |||
| Mercedes Ruehl | The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | ||||
| x Martin | Don R. McManus | Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | |||
| Bill Pullman | The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | ||||
| x Ross | Charles Shaw Robinson | Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | |||
| Stephen Rowe | The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | ||||
| x Billy | Joseph Parks | Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? | |||
| Jeffrey Carlson | The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | ||||
| x M | Play | Gerhard Winter | Spiel (world premiere) | ||
| x W1 | Play | Nancy Illig | Spiel (world premiere) | ||
| x W2 | Play | Sigfrid Pfeiffer | Spiel (world premiere) | ||
| x The Little Prince | The Little Prince |
The Little Prince is the fictional title character of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous book.
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| x Tom Buchanan |
Tom Buchanan is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Myrtle Wilson |
Myrtle Wilson is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Nick Carraway |
Nick Carraway is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby. He serves as the story's narrator.
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| x Jay Gatsby |
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Jay Gatsby is the titular character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. The character has become an archetype of self-made American men seeking to join High society and the name has become synonymous with successful businessmen...
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| x Miranda |
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The Tempest |
In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Miranda is the beautiful daughter of the old Duke Prospero.
Cast away with her father since she was three years old, she has lived an extremely sheltered existence. Though she has received a well-rounded education...
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| x Albert Peterson | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Rose Alvarez | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Conrad Birdie | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Kim MacAfee | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Harry Macafee | Bye Bye Birdie |
Harry McAfee is the current band director of Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama. Hoover High School has recently been the subject of a new T.V. show on MTV called Two-A-Days. Mr. McAfee most recently was filmed and put on air for being the...
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| x Doris MacAfee | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Randolph MacAfee | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Mae Peterson | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Hugo Peabody | Bye Bye Birdie | ||||
| x Daisy Buchanan |
Daisy Buchanan is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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| x Charity | Gwen Verdon | Sweet Charity | |||
| x Roxie Hart | Gwen Verdon | Chicago | |||
| Marilu Henner | Chicago | ||||
| Ann Reinking | Chicago | ||||
| Ashlee Simpson | Chicago | ||||
| x Antonio Vivaldi |
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The Red Priest of Venice | Dave Auerbach | The Red Priest of Venice |
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a baroque composer and Venetian priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a...
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| x Signora Rossani | The Red Priest of Venice | Elizabeth Marks | The Red Priest of Venice | ||
| x Paolina Trevisana | The Red Priest of Venice | Katherine McDowell | The Red Priest of Venice | ||
| x Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt | The Red Priest of Venice | Taron C. Hensley | The Red Priest of Venice | ||
| x Fredric | The Red Priest of Venice | Scott Nordquist | The Red Priest of Venice | ||
| x Anna Girò | The Red Priest of Venice | Elizabeth Levinson | The Red Priest of Venice | ||
| x Alex | Johnny Galecki | The Little Dog Laughed | |||
| x Professor Henry Higgins | My Fair Lady | Herbert Beerbohm Tree | Pygmalion | ||
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| x Benny | Alan Tudyk | Epic Proportions | |||
| x Damián | Rodrigo Santacruz | La boda |
Damián (pronounced dah-mee-ah-ah-n) is the Spanish-language version of the general European name Damian.
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| x Karmanghia | The Strip | ||||
| Rodrigo Santacruz | The Strip | ||||
| x Dostoyevsky | Rodrigo Santacruz | The Strip | |||
| x Glinda |
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Wicked | Kristin Chenoweth | Wicked |
Glinda (in full, Glinda the Good Witch of the South) is a fictional character in the Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is the most powerful sorceress of Oz, although a fairy in later books, ruler of the Quadling Country south...
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| Laura Bell Bundy | Wicked | ||||
| Lucy Scherer | Wicked | ||||
| x Elphaba |
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Wicked | Idina Menzel | Wicked |
Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway adaptation, Wicked. In the original L. Frank Baum book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch...
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| Idina Menzel | Wicked | ||||
| Willemijn Verkaik | Wicked | ||||
| x Maureen Johnson | Idina Menzel | Rent |
Maureen Johnson is a character in the musical RENT. She is a performance artist, Mark's ex-girlfriend, and Joanne's love interest. Maureen can be considered to be bisexual. In the song "Tango: Maureen", Mark and Joanne sing about her inability to...
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| Cecilia Wrangel | Rent | ||||
| Idina Menzel | Rent | ||||
| x Jane Eyre |
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Jane Eyre |
Jane Eyre is the heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.
Jane Eyre is described as plain, with an elfin look. She sees herself as "poor, obscure, plain and little". Mr. Rochester once compliments Jane's "hazel eyes and hazel hair"...
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| x Peter Pan |
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Peter Pan | Cathy Rigby | Peter Pan |
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie (1860–1937). A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland...
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| x Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III | Taye Diggs | Rent | |||
