MOST stage time for an actor in a show?

[zamedy]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:18pm

Okay.. there's already a thread about the LEAST amount of stage time for one actor/character in a show. How about the MOST? Who's on stage for pretty much the entire show? Three that come to my mind...

1. Tracy in HAIRSPRAY
2. Elle in LEGALLY BLOND
3. The actor playing Princeton/Rod in AVENUE Q

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:20pm

Millie.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:22pm

Tevye

[Fiyero13]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:23pm

All of the altar boyz
Olive, william, panch in spelling bee

[misto625]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:24pm

Mama Rose in Gypsy
Jean Valjean in Les Miserables
Max/Leo in The Producers
Munkustrap in Cats
Belle in Beauty and the Beast

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:24pm

And Elphaba is on stage for most of the whole show except the opening numbers of both acts.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:24pm

Diana in Next to Normal. She barely leaves the stage and when she does it's almost always only for costume changes. (At least in the Second Stage incarnation.)

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:25pm

Jean Valjean really isn't on stage THAT much.

[Broadwayfanatic2]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:25pm

George from Sunday in the Park with George is on a lot...

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:27pm

I Am My Own Wife.

Enough said.

[Muhlethaler]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:29pm

Updated On: 6/18/20 at 02:29 PM

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:30pm

Grace in Pirate Queen
Lestat in Lestat (the ENTIRE fecking time)

[Mythus]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:31pm

Does this count plays? I directed Alice in Wonderland more than a year ago and Alice literally never leaves the stage for 2+ hours.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:33pm

Yeah I did Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and the title characters don't ever leave the stage...and that play is almost 3 hours.

[gottadance2]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:34pm

Nathan Lane as Charles Smith in NOVEMBER. Whole show!

[broadwaywriter]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:42pm

Jean Valjean is on the stage for only part of each act. He actually barely gets any stage time compared to Marius or Eponine.

THE MOST:
Elle - Legally Blonde (does she even ever leave the stage for more than a couple minutes?)
Melchior - Spring Awakening
Clara - The Light in the Piazza
Christine Ebersole - Grey Gardens (both roles)

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:44pm

Stage Manager in Our Town. I don't know about Broadway productions, but in our school production she(the director cast a girl, I don't know why, she was horrible too) never left the stage I think.

[musicandtemiror]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:47pm

I just saw the tour of 12 Angry Men and Richard Thomas never left

[misto625]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:48pm

Hmm I guess I was wrong about Jean Valjean, oh well, I always thought he had more stage time than Marius and Cosette, but it could be because he is onstage at the beginning and they come on later, but he doesn't really leave the stage much at first except to change costumes between scenes. He seems to always be lurking around during Cosette's scenes like A Heart Full of Love. Even at the barricades, Valjean is there. I remember reading somewhere that Marius and Cosette were on chorus contracts and Valjean, Javert, and Fantine were the only ones on principal contracts.

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:51pm

Updated On: 5/6/09 at 02:51 PM

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:54pm

Usnavi in In The Heights, He may not be in every number but he is on stage the whole time.

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:57pm

John Adams in 1776. He's not onstage the whole time, but quite a lot of it.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 3:01pm

Charity in Sweet Charity.

[BNN]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 3:01pm

How has no one mentioned Charity in Sweet Charity? She doesn't even get to change costumes AND has to do some serious dancing on top of that.

[TomMonster]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 3:04pm

No contest:

Nicholas Nickleby...he's on stage for almost the entire 8 hours...