Performers with a(n) (almost) spotless performance record

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Performers with a(n) (almost) spotless performance record

Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:00am

I don't THINK this has been posted before, I did a search but I could be wrong.
I was reading the other thread about the performers who always missed shows, so I wanted to know which performers almost or never missed one in their careers.

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re: Performers with a(n) (almost) spotless performance record

Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:01am

Carol Channing?

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:01am

Carol Channing in Hello Dolly.

Has been posted before, I believe.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:02am

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I heard somewhere that Tonya Pinkins never missed a show of Caroline, or Change...again, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:02am

Do planned vacations count?

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:05am

No, which reminds me: Hugh Jackman.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:10am

The Sweeney Todd cast. There attendance is flawless, especially: John Arbo, Michael Cerveris, Manoel Felciano, Lauren Molina, Donna Lynne-Champlin (on planned vacation this week).

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:12am

Julia Murney (up until she went on tour with Wicked)

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:13am

John Arbo was out when I saw Sweeney.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:14am

Hugh Panaro hardly ever misses a show. He performs sick all the time.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:14am

Speaking of Caroline or Change, Harrison Chad played every performance save for one, if I recall correctly. And even that one was in the last week of the show, as they wanted to give his understudy a chance to go on once.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:18am

Tonya Pinkins missed many many performances following the Tony Awards until the show closed. Her standby, a talented actress named Adriane Lenox, went on a few years later to win a Tony Award for DOUBT.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:23am

i wish i had seen Adriane in the role!!

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:29am

Brooke shields

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:32am

Michael McCarthy during the Sydney run of Les Miz. Never missed a show and was actually called back later in the run when everyone got sick and they ran out of Javerts.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:47am

Noone has mentioned Harvey yet.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:50am

Carol Channing
Eden Espinosa
Kelli O'Hara

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 12:55am

Ethel Merman, back in the days.
Antonio Banderas.
Bernadette Peters.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:15am

Ted Neeley (in the A.D. tour of JCS) missed very few performances.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:20am

Stephen Lynch in the Wedding Singer

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:24am

Idina Menzel missed very few performances in Wicked. Actually, both of her successors have had stellar attendance records as well.

Heather Headley also had a very good record in Aida.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:39am

I'm not sure about his other shows, but Greg Jbara is very rarely out of DRS. He's had a couple of planned vacations, and some missed days to do things like QVC or a recording, but I think, I'm not positive, that he hasn't missed anymore than those days.

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:40am

Kelli was out when I saw "The Light"
Harvey and Carol are my Idols for never missing
and Hugh too

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:42am

wickedrentq, what does Greg do on QVC?

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Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:44am

Joe Machota

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