Stars who never miss a show?

[Steel Pier Fan]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:07pm

Which Broadway stars never miss a show? and which ones miss the most?

[AC126748]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:12pm

Michael Cerveris has never missed a scheduled performance in his professional career.

[spike3]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:12pm

Al Pacino did not miss one performance of Merchant.And since this is about stars, I shant mention all the chorus folk who, because of a hang nail call out.oops!

[Steel Pier Fan]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:28pm

Sorry, I meant people not just stars.

[AC126748]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:40pm

As someone on a previous thread stated, Marian Seldes never missed a performance of DEATHTRAP, meaning that she was in 1799 consecutive performances...still a record.

Harvey Fierstein rarely misses and is known to admonish castmates for taking personal days.

Bernadette Peters never missed a performance of NIGHT MUSIC.

Sean Hayes only missed a handful of performances in PROMISES PROMISES, very late in the run. He said that his goal was to perform the entire run without missing a show, and he came very close to that goal.

Alice Ripley was known early in her career for never missing performances. That seems to have changed due to the vocal demands of NEXT TO NORMAL.

Similarly, Laura Benanti was known for poor attendance early in her career, but now she seems to have an excellent track record of late.

People who have been known to have attendance problems:
Fantasia Barrino
Emily Skinner
LaChanze
Chad Kimball
Katie Rose Clarke

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:42pm

do you really mean NEVER or seldom/rarely?

Jonathan Groff had an excellent attendance rate -- although did take a loa to film a pilot.

The entire orgiginal cast of N2N was extremely commendable.

Dan Radcliffe has been outstanding in both his shows on b'way (no missed performances yet, to the best of my knowledge, anyway.)

Fairly certain that Lupone is also credited with a great run in Gypsy.

[degrassifan]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:45pm

I read in a book that Mary Martin never missed a day when doing The Sound of Music.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:59pm

I'm thrilled that Laura Benanti has been able to climb out of all that crap people were posting about her, not knowing what she was going through.

She's had excellent attendance in both GYPSY & WOMEN ON THE VERGE now that she's had surgery.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:08pm

I don't think Brooke Shields missed any shows either.

[jo]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:16pm

Hugh Jackman, with perfect attendance in the --

*Year-long run of THE BOY FROM OZ
*Limited engagement of A STEADY RAIN

[steven22]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:24pm

Marin missed 2 performances during her run in NEXT TO NORMAL. Jason Daniely missed none.

[steven22]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:24pm

Marin missed 2 performances during her run in NEXT TO NORMAL. Jason Daniely missed none.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:35pm

Didn't Catherine Zeta-Jones only miss performances during those two weeks prior to the Tony's when she was quite sick?

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:39pm

Didn't Audra have perfect attendance in 110 in the Shade? THey only cancelled one performance when her father passed.

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:43pm

Aaron Tveit also has a good attendance rate right? I think he only missed N2N performances to film "Gossip Girl"

[steven22]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:44pm

Tveit missed a couple here and there.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:46pm

John Gallagher, Jr's understudies don't get a lot of stage time.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:47pm

Karen No-Sho-livo missed a lot of In The Heights performances and many a West Side Story. I know-I tried to see her 3 times in each.

Tasia was a no-show cautionary tale. She'll never work again on Broadway.

Christine Eberosle and Chita Rivera even perform when under the weather. They never miss shows aside from scheduled vacations.

It seems like the "old school" performers go one come hell or high water. Its the young ones that feel entitled to sit it out if they are not up to it.

People made fun of LuPone and the isotoners during Gypsy, but that is a trooper. She knows people are there to see her and by God, she's going on. That is a pro.

[Steel Pier Fan]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:48pm

Didn't Cheno miss a lot in Wicked but few in Promises, Promises and The Apple Tree

[steven22]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:48pm

dramamamma611,

I think Gerard Canonico and Brian Charles Johnson each went on once while understudying JGJ. However, he did miss a few shows here and there in American Idiot (Van was on a bunch of times).

[Steel Pier Fan]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:56pm

Didn't Cheno miss a lot in Wicked but few in Promises, Promises and The Apple Tree

[broadwaybabe1234]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:57pm

I don't think Sutton Foster has missed a performance yet of Anything Goes but that was not the case with Shrek. I think at the end of her run she was only doing 6 prefs a week.

I remember Alice Ripley saying that throughout her entire run of Next to Normal she did 96% of the performances. Of course, thats not the case anymore...

[steven22]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 5:01pm

Pearl seems to get more Diana time than Alice on tour lmfao.

[spike3]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 5:49pm

during the run of Two By Two star Danny Kaye broke his leg. He went on with a cast on it, and played the show in a wheelchair.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 5/29/11 at 5:51pm

I don't think Sutton Foster has missed a performance yet of Anything Goes but that was not the case with Shrek. I think at the end of her run she was only doing 6 prefs a week.

Was that a contract stipulation, though? Because that's not really the same as missing 2 shows a week.