Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#1Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 6:52pm
...continuously and with no breaks.
OK, let me clarify...one actor, doing one show, with "no breaks" doesn't include vacation or hiatus, ok? just means they stayed with that show for a long time.
Looking for the longest...obviously I donn't know the answear, that's why I'm asking 
Updated On: 5/17/08 at 06:52 PM
#2re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 7:18pm
Most actors get a vacation every year, and wisely use them. I doubt you're going to find someone who did a show for years and years without taking a week's vacation when they were entitled to it.
That one guy has been in Phantom since it opened (can't remember his name). He's obviously taken vacations, but in terms of being in one show for a long period of time, he obviously would hold the record, since Phantom is the longest running show in Broadway history.
Updated On: 5/17/08 at 07:18 PM
#2re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 7:23pm
I think you're thinking of George Lee Andrews, Adam!
He's been with PHANTOM since day one, but has changed roles...
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#3re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 7:26pm
adamgreer, that's what I meant when I tried to clarify that, of course, vacations would not take away from being on the show "continuosly".
TomMonster, thanks for the answear, unless anyone else can contest that...
Updated On: 5/17/08 at 07:26 PM
#4re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 7:34pm
There's nothing to contest...Phantom has played more performances than any other show on Broadway, and Andrews has been there since day 1. It would be impossible for someone to have played more performances in a single show.
Second place would probably go to Marlene Danielle, who did the entire run of Cats.
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#5re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 7:41pm
Wow! You know your Broadway!
Thanks :) I believe it, since POTO is definitely the longest running. Is that second place a sure bet also...?
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#6re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 7:44pmDidn't Julie Andrews play Eliza Doolittle for like 48 months?
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#8re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 7:57pm
Bill Nabel is up there , mayve third to those two.
He started with BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in Texas and did the entire New York run.
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#9re: Longest time actor has played a show on Broadway?
Posted: 5/17/08 at 8:57pmGeorge Lee Andrews left Phantom for a while to do the role of Frederick in New York City Opera's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC around 1994 (?). But he then went back to Phantom directly, I think. So he probably still holds any length of service record.
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