Performers with a(n) (almost) spotless performance record- Page 2

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:45am

Kelli only missed performances of PIAZZA that were scheduled absences. She never missed for DRACULA or PAJAMA GAME.

[Parks]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:45am

I missed Greg last time I saw the show Just wasn't the same without him.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:47am

SweetQ, it was a one-time thing a while ago. Some DRS cast members appeared on QVC and performed as QVC sold DRS-related stuff.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 1:59am

Barbra Streisand never missed a show during her run in "Funny Girl".

(There is controversy over whether or not Lainie Kazan went on, but according to what I have gathered, Streisand called out for a show and Kazan notified the press she was going on, only to have Barbara show up close to curtain and end up performing anyway.)

Updated On: 7/9/06 at 01:59 AM

[jam_man]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:13am

I'm mentioning Harvey, Princeton.


When Harvey was in Hairspray, he only missed the second act of one show due to something happening to him in the first (fall or something). That was the only time he wasn't on as Edna until he left the show.

[Becky]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 2:17am

I believe Patrick Wilson never missed a performance in The Full Monty except for his scheduled vacation.

[ruprecht]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:19am

I'm surprised this on the second page and no one has mentioned Orfeh. And I'm not just referring to one show, she's never missed *a* show in all the shows she's done, other than vacations and she missed one show of Trailer Park which was pre scheduled(yes, I've asked). Btw, this has been a topic before, I remember saying this already.

[HughE2030]

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

Julia Roberts never missed a performance, despite being publicly humiliated with bad reviews.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 9:45am

Lainie Kazan did eventually go on for Streisand - My uncle saw her and said she was great. Burt Lancaster was in the audience and left when they made the announcement that Babs wasn't on.

Eden Espinosa was out when I saw BROOKLYN. However,I heard that was one of the few times she missed - My luck!
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[BreeDaniel]

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

You beat me to it Rup. Orfeh's attendance record is spotless.

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:23am

Just wondering, how exactly do you know that a performer has never missed any performance? I mean, it's not like you're seeing every performance, right?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:25am

Pinkins did not miss "many many" performances -- she missed 5 or 6 right after the Tonys on doctor's orders and that's it.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Merman who didn't miss a performance for a couple of decades. She missed a few early in the run of GYPSY after she burst a blood vessel in her throat, and missed one to be able to attend her daughter's graduation from college, but otherwise she was almost never out over the course of more than a dozen Broadway shows from 1930-1970.

Most of her colleagues of that era were similarly committed and very rarely if ever missed -- Mary Martin, Alfred Drake, Raitt, Channing, Streisand, etc... played hundreds, even thousands of performances of various shows without a single absence.

Updated On: 7/9/06 at 10:25 AM

[clarky]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:40am

how about Leila Martin? Original Madame Giry in Phantom, played the role for 10 Years and hardly missed.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:43am

I think vacations DO count as missed time.

If you go back pre-1970s, there was no scheduled vacation time, ever. You ran in your show until it closed.

So I would look at those Merman and Channing runs with a little more awe. Not only did they miss very few shows ever, they never took "scheduled vacations" during a run.

We're so "soft" now.

[AlmostFamous]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:46am

The Aida cast didn't miss alot of performances!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:51am

Oh yes, they did....

Headley rarely missed, but she was an exception. None of her sucessors ever did an eight show week (for Maya Days and Simone, there was never an "official" show they missed). Toni Braxton, Michelle Williams, and Deborah Cox only did 6 shows a week.

The rest of the cast (and replacements) were decent, but not great. The exceptions were two Amneris'- Menzel and Felicia Finley, both of whom were very rarely out.

[Ruth Sherwood]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:54am

I don't think anyone has mentioned Sutton Foster. During her year and half with "Millie," she very rarely missed a show, and she was out of "Little Women" once when she had the flu, and once to go to the opening of "Spamalot," which I believe had been a scheduled absence.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 10:57am

clarky - I worked with Leila Martin and she actually was with PHANTOM for an amazing thirteen and a half years! I don't know if she ever missed. I'll have to ask her. Great lady. I know she did take a leave once to play the leading role in the musical WINGS in a theatre in Pittsburgh.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:16am

"Scheduled absences..."

Bah! Humbug!

I wish they'd all get their butts back on the stage, and take time off when the show closes. Seriously, we are pampering these "celebrated folk" way too much.

And while we're at it, ENOUGH with the 22-week TV seasons. In the '50s and '60s they did 39 weeks every season.

We've become a bunch of "softies" now.

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:18am

Christina Applegate only missed about 3-4 performances in SWEET CHARITY. Besides the first week of previews, she had to miss because of her foot.

That's pretty damn good in my book for a non-Broadway performer. She had even more drive than the average Broadway performer. She was very devoted to her show.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:21am

I think Leila Martin is the one perfomer mentioned here who can really be considered impressive - besides the old-time performers of course. They went from show to show, never missing, where as nowadays, an actor can go for quite a long time between one show and the next.

Perfect attendance in short-lived shows - what's so great about that?

[Ruth Sherwood]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:22am

I don't want to turn this into a thread about scheduled absences, but I think that performers deserve a vacation like everyone else. As long as it is told to the ticket buyer before he/she buys the ticket, I don't see any problem with it.

[Bret]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:22am

In regards to Harrison Chad in CorC, the only reason he missed was because his understudy's aunt or someone was being a huge pain trying to get the cast to let her nephew perform. It got so bad that Chad just let him go on once. Perhaps someone can clarify...

[Buscee]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:31am

I believe I heard Carol Channing say one time, that she was forced by producers or maybe Equity to take a vacation during "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" and she did. It just so happened that during that period 20th Century Fox execs saw the show, and decided to buy it. So the role went to Monroe. Because of that she said she would never miss another performance again.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/9/06 at 11:33am

One would have to say the late Yul Brynner in King & I