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| x King Arthur |
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Richard Burton | Camelot (Original Broadway Production) |
King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary...
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| x Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
Sweeney Todd is a character who first appeared as the main antagonist of a penny dreadful serial titled The String of Pearls (1846-1847). Claims that Sweeney Todd was a historical person are strongly disputed by scholars, although there are possible...
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| x Mrs. Lovett | Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street | ||||
| x Johanna | Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street | ||||
| x Tom Collins | Jesse L. Martin | Rent |
Thomas B. Collins (a.k.a. Collins) is a fictional character in the musical RENT. He is Mark and Roger's friend and ex-roommate. He in Angel's lover and is HIV positive. He teaches at New York University and teaches his students in computer-aged...
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| x Angel Dumott Schunard | Wilson Jermaine Heredia | Rent |
Angel Dumott Schunard is a character in the award-winning rock musical RENT. Wilson Jermaine Heredia won a Tony award for originating this role.
Angel is a drag queen and a street musician. He is also the lover of Tom Collins. Angel, like Collins,...
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| x Luke Hall | Insignificant Others | ||||
| x Jordan | Insignificant Others | ||||
| x Margaret Auchet | Insignificant Others | ||||
| x Harry Hope | The Iceman Cometh | Barnard Hughes |
Harry Hope is a major character in Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play "The Iceman Cometh". He is the owner of a saloon and rooming house, the setting of the play.
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| x Theodore Hickman | The Iceman Cometh | Jason Robards |
Theodore Hickman, or "Hickey", is a major character in Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play "The Iceman Cometh". He is a hardware salesman.
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| x Willie Oban | The Iceman Cometh |
Willie Oban is a character in Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play "The Iceman Cometh". He is a Harvard Law School alumus and a roomer at Harry Hope's rooming house.
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| x Larry Slade | The Iceman Cometh | Donald Moffat |
Larry Slade is a character in Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play "The Iceman Cometh".
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| x Joe Mott | The Iceman Cometh |
Joe Mott is a character in Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play "The Iceman Cometh".
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| x Don Parritt | The Iceman Cometh |
Don Parritt is a character in Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play "The Iceman Cometh".
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| x Pat McGloin | The Iceman Cometh |
Pat McGloin is a character in Eugene O'Neill's 1939 play "The Iceman Cometh". He's a one-time police lieutenant.
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| x Fanny Brice | |||||
| x Yeta Tessye Marmelstein | Barbra Streisand | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | |||
| x Fanny Brice |
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Barbra Streisand | Funny Girl |
Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio...
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| x Ghost of Hamlet's father |
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Hamlet |
King Hamlet is a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, also known as The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. He should not be confused with his son, Prince Hamlet, who is the central figure of the play. In the dramatis personae, King...
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| x Prince Hamlet |
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Hamlet | Paul Gross |
Prince Hamlet is a fictional character, the protagonist in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping Claudius and son of the previous King of Denmark, Old Hamlet. Throughout the play he struggles with whether,...
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| x Jason McConnell | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Peter Simonds | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Nadia McConnell | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Sister Chantelle | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Father | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Lucas Carter | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Ivy Robinson | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Tanya Garrett | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Claire Simonds | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Matthew Loyd | Bare, a Pop Opera | ||||
| x Othello |
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Othello |
Othello is a character in Shakespeare's Othello (c.1601-1604). The character's origin is traced to the tale, "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio. There, he is simply referred to as the Moor.
Othello is a brave...
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| x Tevye | Fiddler on the Roof | Chaim Topol | Fiddler on the Roof |
Tevye the dairyman ([ˈtɛvjə], Yiddish: טבֿיה דער מילכיקער Tevye der milkhiker) is the protagonist of several of Sholem Aleichem's stories, originally written in Yiddish and first published in 1894. The character became best known from the fictional...
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| Tevye and His Daughters | Zero Mostel | Fiddler on the Roof | |||
| x Sardanapalus | Sardanapalus |
Sardanapalus is the title character of a 1821 play by Lord Byron, about Sardanapalus, the last king of Assyria.
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| x Arbaces | Sardanapalus |
Arbaces, according to Ctesias, one of the generals of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria and founder of the Median empire about 830 BC. From the inscriptions of Sargon II of Assyria we know one Arbaku of Arnashia as one of forty-five chiefs of Median...
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| x Donny Dubrow | American Buffalo | ||||
| x Bobby | American Buffalo | William H. Macy | American Buffalo | ||
| x Walter "Teacher" Cole | American Buffalo | ||||
| x Jack | Boy's Life | ||||
| x Don | Jordan Lage | ||||
| x Maggie | Felicity Huffman | Boy's Life | |||
| x Alan Strang | Daniel Radcliffe | Equus | |||
| Daniel Radcliffe | Equus | ||||
| x Guest | Daniel Radcliffe | The Play What I Wrote | |||
| x Annie | Sarah Jessica Parker | Annie | |||
| x Understudy | Jennifer Garner | A Month in the Country |
In theater, an understudy is a performer who learns the lines and blocking/choreography of a leading actor or actress in a play. Should the lead actor or actress be unable to appear on stage because of illness or emergencies, the understudy takes...
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| Eugene Stuckmann | Come live with me | ||||
| x Carol | Cate Blanchett | Oleanna | |||
| x Felice Bauer | Cate Blanchett | Kafka Dances | |||
| x Rose | Cate Blanchett | The Blind Giant Dancing | |||
| x Helen | Cate Blanchett | Sweet Phoebe | |||
| x Miranda | Cate Blanchett | The Tempest | |||
| x Electra | Cate Blanchett | Electra | |||
| x Ophelia |
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Hamlet | Cate Blanchett |
Ophelia is a fictional character in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and sweetheart of Prince Hamlet.
In Ophelia's first speaking appearance in the play, we...
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| Natasha Richardson | Hamlet | ||||
| x The Vagina Monologues |
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Cate Blanchett |
The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler which ran at the off-Broadway Westside Theatre after a limited run at HERE Arts Center in 1996. Ensler originally starred in the production; when she left the play it was recast with...
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| x Plenty |
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Cate Blanchett | Susan Traherne |
Plenty is a play by David Hare about British post-war disillusion. Susan Traherne, a former secret agent, is a woman conflicted by the contrast between her past, exciting triumphs — she had worked behind enemy lines as a Special Operations Executive...
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| x The Seagull |
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Cate Blanchett | Nina |
The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic...
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| x Hedda Gabler | Cate Blanchett | Hedda Gabler | |||
| x The War of the Roses | Cate Blanchett | ||||
| x A Streetcar Named Desire |
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Cate Blanchett | Blanche DuBois |
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1947. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel...
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| x Timmy | Patrick Dempsey | The Subject Was Roses | |||
| x Little Cosette | Ashley Tisdale | Les Misérables | |||
