John Cullum: Setting a record?
John Cullum: Setting a record?
neil30043
Understudy Joined: 6/1/03
#1John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 8:20am
With John Cullum joining the cast of "Waitress", I saw that his Broadway career has spanned from 1956 ("Saint Joan"
until 2017, an amazing 61 years! Does anyone know that that is some kind of record statistic?
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 9:08am
If you include Off-Broadway, the late George S. Irving had credits from York's 2008 Enter Laughing through the original Oklahoma! in 1943, 65 years.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
SomethingPeculiar
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/14
#3John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 11:24am
While not an acting record, George Abbott’s first Broadway show was in 1913 (as an actor in “Misleading Lady” at age 26) and his last was in 1987 (writer/director of “Broadway” at age 100) — 74 Years! Abbott died at the young age of 107.
Regardless, it’s wonderful that Cullum (stupid auto correct) is still acting and I’m sure he’s great in Waitress.
#4John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 12:05pmChita also has around 64- 65 years of Broadway credits.
#6John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 12:13pm
ljay889 said: "Chita also has around 64- 65 years of Broadway credits."
Donna McKechnie's first Broadway show was in 1961 in the OBC of HOW TO SUCCEED and was just recently Chita's standby in THE VISIT(56 years).
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#7John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 12:13pmWho is the oldest person to have ever been on broadway? And what age were they?
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#8John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 12:24pm
I have had the privilege of witnessing both Chita and George S. Irving do what they do best! I saw (and loved) THE VISIT and worked with Irving in what I think was his last performance of "The Butler's Song" at the York Theatre. The audience went wild.
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SomethingPeculiar
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/14
#9John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 12:36pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Who is the oldest person to have ever been on broadway? And what age were they?”
Cathleen Nesbitt was 93 when she reprised her role of Mrs Higgins to Rex Harrison’s 73-y.o. Henry in the 1981 revival of “My Fair Lady”. I don’t know if that’s a record, but it’s damn impressive!! Lots of recent octogenarians stand out (Lansbury, Stritch, Rivera, Tyson, Estelle Parsons, JE Jones, Robert Morse, Rosemary Harris) but I can’t think of many over 90.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#10John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 1:19pmI guess John Cullem is a baby at only age 87.
rayoflight104
Stand-by Joined: 8/15/03
#11John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 1:36pm
What a career!
He was so good in Urinetown.
I saw him perform in a show at my university when I was in college with his son back almost 15 years ago.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#12John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 1:39pm
Joel Grey was in the Borsct Capades in 1956, not Broadway though. In 1961 he was in Come Blow Your Horn though. Has had a rather long career.
#13John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 2:04pm
I am still not over seeing his understudy in Urinetown. Usually I feel totally fine, even excited, seeing Understudies on, but missing John Cullum is one of the few times I've felt bitter disappointment.
#14John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 2:30pm
If you believe that Cicely Tyson is the age she claims to be -- I know there's been some questioning, but she claims to be 92 -- then she appeared in TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL at 88 and THE GIN GAME at 90. She made her Broadway debut in 1959, meaning 56 years between first appearance and most recent appearance.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#15John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 3:32pm
Joan Roberts' first Broadway appearance was in Sunny River in 1941, and her final appearance was in the 2001 Follies, making her career around 60 years.
#16John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 4:54pm
https://youtu.be/v_ohMnUxJhs
Just plopping this down right here because reasons.
He's probably my favorite broadway baritone.
-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."
smidge
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/06
#17John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 5:21pmSaw Professor Irwin Corey in 2004 in Sly Fox when he was 90. His first Broadway show was New Faces of 1943.
#18John Cullum: Setting a record?
Posted: 10/27/17 at 8:46pmanyone mention stritch? her first show was 46 and the last was 2011, 65 years!
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