Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Dallas Theatre Fan
Stand-by Joined: 3/10/13
#1Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/28/18 at 8:11pm
Earlier today I was trying to compile a list of performers who were both in the production and the revival. Here is the list so far that I created. (It should be right, I doubled checked on Playbill Vault.)
Krysta Rodriguez: Spring Awakening
Beth Level: 42nd Street
Ann Reinking: Chicago
Priscilla Lopez: Pippin
Carol Channing: Hello Dolly!
I know my list is very incomplete so what other performs did both the original production and the revial?
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#2Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/28/18 at 8:21pm
Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun
Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard
Jason Robards in the off-Broadway and later Broadway revivals of The Iceman Cometh
John Raitt in Carousel
Alfred Drake in Kismet
Richard Kiley in Man of la Mancha
Joan Diener in Man of la Mancha (different revival)
Angela Lansbury in Mame
Richard Burton in Camelot
Joel Grey in Cabaret
Yul Brynner in The King and I
Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Robert Coote in My Fair Lady
Alan Cumming in Cabaret
#3Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/28/18 at 9:02pmAlvin Ing was in the original PACIFIC OVERTURES and in the 2004 revival.
Dallas Theatre Fan
Stand-by Joined: 3/10/13
#4Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/28/18 at 9:20pm
The Other One said: "
Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard
Richard Burton in Camelot
Joel Grey in Cabaret
Yul Brynner in The King and I
Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
Robert Coote in My Fair Lady
Alan Cumming in Cabaret"
Of course I missed all the freebies.
Actinggbugg474
Featured Actor Joined: 9/4/04
#5Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/28/18 at 9:38pmDaniel Jenkins in Big River.
#6Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/28/18 at 10:20pm
Jon Jon Briones in Miss Saigon
#7Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/28/18 at 10:31pmGrasan Kingsberry, The Color Purple
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#8Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/29/18 at 6:26am
"Alan Cumming in Cabaret"
Cumming has been in different versions of the revival, but he wasn't in the original.
Michael Gruber in A Chorus Line.
#9Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/29/18 at 9:07amCathleen Nesbit in Fair Lady '56 and '81.
Rumpelstiltskin
Broadway Star Joined: 4/22/07
#10Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/29/18 at 9:07amIt was fun to see John Rubinstein as Pippin in 1974 and then as Pippin’s father 40 year’s later.
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#11Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/29/18 at 12:18pm
ghostlight2 said: ""Alan Cumming in Cabaret"
Cumming has been in different versions of the revival, but he wasn't in the original.."
Fair enough. He was in both the Mendes revival and the revival of that revival.
#12Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/29/18 at 1:34pmJill Martin was Julie Andrews' understudy in the original London production of My Fair Lady, Liz Robertson's understudy in 1979 and Mrs. Eynsford-Hill in the 2001 NT revival
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#13Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/29/18 at 1:37pm
Jessica Hendy was an understudy for Grizabella during the original production of Cats and was also the understudy for the recent revival.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#14Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/29/18 at 9:33pm
"Fair enough. [Cumming] was in both the Mendes [Cabaret] revival and the revival of that revival."
Yes. That's why I said "Cumming has been in different versions of the revival, but he wasn't in the original.." :)
If we are including people who were in revivals of the same show?
Jose Llana: The King and I. First Lun Tha, then the King.
LightsOut90
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/14
#15Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/30/18 at 1:04am
Ben Stiller was the son in the original production of House of Blue Leaves and then the father in the revival.
#16Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/30/18 at 1:17am
Stephen Spinella was Prior Walter in the original Broadway version of Angels in American and is now playing Roy Cohn in the revival at Berkeley Rep in California. Quite a coup.
j.garcia
Understudy Joined: 10/29/09
#17Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/30/18 at 7:48am
John Rubenstein was Pippin in the original and then played Charlemagne in the revival.
gallerygirl
Chorus Member Joined: 11/13/14
#18Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 4/30/18 at 9:30am
Tony Sheldon was Bernadette in the original Australian, West End and Broadway PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT and is starring in the current 10th anniversary revival.
#19Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 5/1/18 at 10:04amJudy Kuhn was (of course!) the OBC Cosette and then a replacement Fantine in the first Les Miz revival.
#20Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 5/1/18 at 3:01pm
Eric Jordan Young - ensemble in the original production of Ragtime, Booker T. Washington in the revival.
#21Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival
Posted: 5/1/18 at 4:16pm
Not a formal "revival," per se...but I absolutely love that Chip Zien returned to Into the Woods as the Narrator/Mysterious Man a few years back. That's full circling in the truest sense!
When I saw him at Sondheim Unplugged, he sort of alluded to this by performing both parts of "No More."
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