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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...
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...
Robin Williams Waiting for Godot
x Lucky Mehdi Bajestani, as Lucky, (from a production by Naqshineh Theatre) 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...
x Pozzo Pozzo has a little supper 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),...
x Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich 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...
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.
x Jordan Baker          
x Tom Buchanan        
Tom Buchanan is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
x Myrtle Wilson        
Myrtle Wilson is a fictional character from F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, The Great Gatsby.
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.
x Jay Gatsby The cover of the first edition of The Great Gatsby, 1925.      
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...
x Miranda Miranda - The Tempest JWW 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...
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...
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.
x Charity     Gwen Verdon Sweet Charity  
x Roxie Hart     Gwen Verdon Chicago  
Marilu Henner Chicago
Ann Reinking Chicago
Ashlee Simpson Chicago
x Antonio Vivaldi Unconfirmed portrait of Antonio Vivaldi 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...
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  
Pygmalion
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.
x Karmanghia       The Strip  
Rodrigo Santacruz The Strip
x Dostoyevsky     Rodrigo Santacruz The Strip  
x Glinda Glinda 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...
Laura Bell Bundy Wicked
Lucy Scherer Wicked
x Elphaba Norbert Leo Butz as Fiyero in the Original Broadway Cast of the musical Wicked, with Idina Menzel as Elphaba 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...
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...
Cecilia Wrangel Rent
Idina Menzel Rent
x Jane Eyre Wilson in her breakthrough role as Jane Eyre 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"...
x Peter Pan PeterPan Statue Londres 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...
x Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III     Taye Diggs Rent  
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