Child actors on Broadway

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Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 8:53pm

Which shows have child actors in them?

I ask this because I'm listening to Seussical. How old is Anthony Blair Hall (playing Jojo) on this recording?

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 8:56pm

This thread does not really have the same topic, but is similar:

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=637772#645887

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#3

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 8:56pm

Dracula has a couple.

#4

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:02pm

The Lion King
Hairspray

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:06pm

Caroline or Change
Boy From Oz
Les Mis

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:10pm

gypsy
chitty chitty bang bang
boy from oz
annie
music man

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:20pm

I can think of off the top of my head
Les Miserables (3 kids... one little boy and two little girls, but one doesn't sing)
The Boy From Oz (Peter Allen as a kid)
Miss Saigon (one little boy... but he doesn't sing and he is Kim and Chris's son)
Lion King (Simba and Nana? Both have solos... obviously Simba more)

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:20pm

Nine
Hollywood Arms

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:22pm

Hairspray (Lil Inez)

#10

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:24pm

Beauty and the Beast- Chip

#11

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:25pm

The Sound of Music

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:25pm

Beauty and the Beast
(Chip)

[sorry, by the time i signed in and posted this it had already been done. oops.)

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Updated On: 1/6/05 at 09:25 PM

#13

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:26pm

(not Broadway) Children's Letters to God.

#14

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:27pm

There are a ton of Bway shows with kids in them. Sorry to state the obvious if this isn't what you were asking. All of these had kids 13 or under in them when they ran on Broadway.

Currently running:
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
Hairspray

Others:
Caroline, Or Change
Ragtime
Seussical
Les Miserables
The Boy From Oz
Parade
Falsettos
Gypsy
Mame
South Pacific
The Sound of Music
The Music Man
The King and I
The Who's Tommy
Annie
Big: The Musical
Pippin
Nine
The Secret Garden
Once On This Island
Miss Saigon
Oliver!
Here's Love!
Titanic (boy optional)
Starlight Express (voiceover only)
Joseph ... Dreamcoat (children's chorus version)

Sondheim (where the child is often played by an adult):
A Little Night Music
Into the Woods
Sunday in the Park with George

Updated On: 1/6/05 at 09:27 PM

#15

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:28pm

Runaways

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:30pm

Jane Eyre had quite a few

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:31pm

Greenwillow
The Most Happy Fella
Bye Bye Birdie
Bring Back Birdie
One Night Stand
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Anyone Can Whistle
Fiddler on the Roof
Assassins
The Yearling
Raisin
Do I Hear a Waltz?
The Rothschilds
Golden Rainbow
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Will Rogers Follies
Whistle Down the Wind
Sail Away
Meet Me in St. Louis
Paper Moon
Grind
Annie Warbucks
Ruthless!
Golden Boy
Really Rosie
Merrily We Roll Along
Violet
Mary Poppins
Carmen Jones

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:34pm

What are the labour regulations for kids? It's mandatory to have 2 kids for one role and they divide the shows, I know. Is that it? What about on tour?

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 9:36pm

'Bye Bye Birdie' has a great part for a precocious young man (Randolph MacAfee)

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:00pm

Annie get your gun had 4...
It's not mandatory to split roles..?? I know they must have a wrangler until they're 15 tho

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:10pm

JJ, I could be wrong. I don't think it's *mandatory* per se, but there's only a certain number of hours a minor can work, so it winds up being split.

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#22

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:23pm

In general, for very young children (under 10) it's customary (if not required) to double or triple cast them (such as in Les Miserables). For slightly older kids (10-13 or so) that play leading roles, they usually do 6 performances a week with an alternate doing the matinees (as with Daisy Eagan in The Secret Garden and Anthony Blair Hall in Seussical). For all kids over about 15 or 16, they usually do the full 8 shows a week.

#23

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:30pm

I don't know if I can name a show that doesn't....Chicago maybe.

#24

re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:42pm

Sabrina Reitman is currently the ten-year-old playing Lil' Inez in HAIRSPRAY. She is the cutest, sweetest little thing I've ever met.

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re: Child actors on Broadway

Posted: 1/6/05 at 10:55pm

oh yea... and
Annie Get Your Gun (one little boy, and two little girls as Annie's siblings)
Wizard of Oz (munchkins)

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