On B'way Multiple Times During The Same Season- Page 2

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 5:29pm

Judy Kuhn was in Rags until it flopped after four performances, then jumped into Les Miserables and performed both on the Tonys. A year later, she starred in Chess, though it was the following season.

[Just_John]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 6:17pm

Did Cynthia Nixon really do that??? Can anyone confirm that. Because it seems as that would be impossible for anyone to do two first acts and then two second acts.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 6:21pm

I had always heard from friends (back then) that she did Act I of one play and Act II of the other each night, and stayed with the second one for the bows. So, no curtain call with the first play. But that was back when she was actually doing it. And I don't have any confirmation... but she did do the two plays at once, even if the details are a bit vague.

I remember that Amanda Plummer was nominated for two Tonys in the same season. "A Taste of Honey" (leading actress in a play) and "Agnes of God" (featured actress in a play, which she won!).

I don't know how many times that's happened. Two Tony noms (let alone two plays) in the same season!

[OzarkElphaba]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 6:26pm

Not technically the same season I believe, but in the same physical year, Bernadette Peters went from semi-flop George M! into MEGA FLOP (but charming) La Strada

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 6:27pm

Yeah that must make for some fun stories for Cynthia...she talks about it more on her Downstage Center interview which you can hear at the American theater wing website. My hope is we can add Michael Arden to the list for Times are a' Changing and 110 in the shade!

[kjklo]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 7:42pm

Bernadette Peters left George M! (which was not a flop) in August 1968, and opened in (definite flop) La Strada in December 1969. In between she starred off-Broadway in Dames At Sea. So, neither the same season nor the same year.

[OzarkElphaba]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 8:58pm

I stand corrected then, you might pass that on to ibdb.com tho.

[kjklo]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 11:06pm

ibdb is giving the dates for the run of the production, not for the performer's run.

[Yero]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 11:10pm

^^They should do both, on my opinion.

[misto625]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 12:23am

Rod Harrelson appeared in The Frogs, The Lion King, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang within the 2004-2005 season.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 2:23am

I'm very impressed with Nixon. I'm curious if anyone knows why the producers chose her to do that? Or if they were the same producing team?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 2:27am

Mike Nichols produced and directed both shows (HurlyBurly and Stoppard's The Real Thing).

[commasplice]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 2:30am

Eddie Korbich did it last season, with After the Night and the Music and The Drowsy Chaperone.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 11:48am

The season Nathan Lane won a Tony for The Producers, he had also starred in The Man Who Came to Dinner. It would have been amazing had he been nominated for both Best Actor in a Musical AND Best Actor in a Play.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 9/17/06 at 12:33pm

Orfeh went from being an understudy in Footloose, to a lead in Fascinating Rhythm, back to being Rusty in Footloose, to landing the role of Annette in Saturday Night Fever all within a few months in 1999. While Footloose wouldn't be counted as being in the same season, the unfairly maligned Fasc Ryhthm opened and closed in the spring of 99' and Fever officially bowed in the fall of the same year. And she never missed a performance. Whew, I'm exhausted just thinking about it

[commasplice]

Posted: 6/8/07 at 11:00pm

Thought of this thread while browsing IBDB tonight: David Pittu was in Coast of Utopia and LoveMusik this past season.

[Julian2]

Posted: 6/8/07 at 11:07pm

I beleive Charlotte d'Amboise was also a Lola replacement in Damn Yankees Revival, and then did the Company Revival.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 6/8/07 at 11:34pm

ugh not to be a bitch but jessica snow-wilson was not in the odd couple. however jessica stone was.

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 6/8/07 at 11:45pm

John Cullum was in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and is now in 110 in the Shade.