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Today we are focusing on a popular and multi-award-winning stage and screen star just announced to return to Broadway in this season's Finding Neverland, Kelsey Grammer.
We've Grown Accustomed To His Face Although entertainment enthusiasts around the world are undoubtedly quite intimately familiar with the character he played on two wildly successful sitcoms in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s thanks to CHEERS and FRASIER - thereby becoming a record-holder for the longest primetime run of any character to date - the man behind Dr. Frasier Crane began his career on the stage. Making a first mark with his portrayal of nobleman Lennox in William Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, MACBETH, back in 1981, Kelsey Grammer followed up his mainstage debut with yet another Shakespearean foray the next year in the 1982 revival production of OTHELLO, taking on the pivotal role of Cassio opposite James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer and Dianne Wiest, no less. After that, Grammer participated in the workshop production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. It would be nearly 20 years before Grammer would appear on the Great White Way again, and, when he did so, it was in none other than a new production of the play in which he made his debut, this time taking on the title role of MACBETH. Unfortunately, the production was significantly short-lived, running less than 2 weeks, but Grammer soldiered on and eventually returned to Broadway in 2010 in the hit revival of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's celebrated LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. And, now, Finding Neverland.
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