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Posted: 9/12/20 at 11:53am
I'm reviving this very old thread because I was looking at the casting of the original run of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and ran across the name of Shepperd Strudwick, whom I had never heard of before. It turns out he appeared in 30 Broadway shows between 1928 and 1981, getting his first Tony nomination with his final appearance, in To Grandmother's House We Go.
He was also a very steady Broadway performer, typically appearing at least once every 2 or 3 years over more than 5 decades. His longest absence from the Broadway stage was only 7 years. A long Broadway career.
A few of the other performers listed have added to their totals. Michael X Martin is now up to 18 Broadway shows.
Posted: 9/12/20 at 3:23pm
morosco said: "Obviously not a performer but wig designer extraordinaire Paul Huntley has well over 200 Broadway shows to his credit."
Charles LaPointe (also a wig & hair designer) has 67 credits. Not many wig designers working on Broadway but those that do work a lot!
Posted: 9/12/20 at 11:43pm
I guess the sheer volume of shows that used to be produced, coupled with the lack of lucrative television employment, were big factors behind some of those numbers of shows.
I remember reading some years ago, I think on this board, where someone commented that something with Bernadette Peters was not as successful as it might have been had she not been 'over-exposed' on Broadway. this triggered me to look at BP's exact record on Broadway...in 61 years, she has been in 16 shows, her first for 2 weeks at age 11, and her second as a standby in a show that ran for 3 days, and her third on a play that ran for one performance. Leaving those out, and adjusting the years, that translates into 13 shows in 53 years.
It would be interesting to see how many actual performances those people gave on Broadway. A lot of those high numbers reflected a lot of short-runs, especially by today's standards, whereas -- continuing to use BP -- she actually played on Broadway for a cumulative total of 109 months, which I imagine could go against many of those people. Nothing particularly relevant, but another way of looking at someone's time on there Great White Way, number of shows, number of elapsed years, number of actual performances.
Posted: 7/15/22 at 12:30am
Clarence Derwent (of the award fame) had 60 Broadway credits but, though he was predominantly an actor, a few of those credits are for staging.
Posted: 7/15/22 at 9:59am
Cameron Adams comes to mind - while she doesn’t have the *most*, she certainly has one of the most impressive careers of this generation of performers with 13 Broadway shows under her belt. I’m always happy to see her name/headshot in my playbill!
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Loretta Swit----2
Posted: 7/15/22 at 10:52am
Double digits are so impressive.
Michael X. Martin 18
Lisa Gajda 16
Matt Wall 16
T. Oliver Reid 13
Cameron Adams 13
