Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Jay94
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/11
#1Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:33am
by one actor
Some I can think of include:
Carol Channing, Hello Dolly
Yul Brenner, The King and I
Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady
Topol, Fiddler on the Roof (???)
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#2Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:41am
Linda Eder - Lucy in Jekyll & HYDE, over 900 times (Houston, National Tour and 2 years on Broadway!)
Updated On: 5/23/12 at 02:41 AM
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#2Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 2:47am
Ted Neeley in JCS MUST be way up there...
ETA: A quick google search says it is somewhere in the 3000s.
Updated On: 5/23/12 at 02:47 AM
sorano916
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/08
#3Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 3:01am
Steve Blanchard as the Beast.
According to a Playbill article, he played the Beast for 11 years, on Broadway and on tour. Don't know how many performances that adds up to.
However, I do remember him being Beast the three times I saw the show.
#4Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 4:03amGeorge Lee Andrews in Phantom. The end.
Leadingplayer
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#5Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 4:20amCatherine Russell has done 8,000 shows of Perfeect Crime why I don't know!
#6Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 5:31am
I would say Philip Griffiths in Phantom but he's not a lead.
Michael Crawford in The Phantom of the Opera.
Colm Wilkinson in Les Misérables.
John Owen-Jones in The Phantom of the Opera (has played the role almost 2,000 times).
#7Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 6:40amMaybe not a lead, but Lon Satton - Mr Starlight Express
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#8Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 7:32am
Marian Seldes did all 1809 performances of DEATHTRAP, considered a featured role, but just to mention.
Updated On: 5/23/12 at 07:32 AM
#9Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 8:01am
J. Mark McVey as Jean Valjean in LES MIZ. Over 3000 times 
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#10Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 8:04am
George Lee Andrews in Phantom. The end.
Would he count? I know he played multiple roles throughout his time in PHANTOM.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#11Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 1:13pmGavin Lee has played Bert in Mary Poppins for almost 9 years now, he was the original in london, i think he also did the UK tour, the opened broadway, then two years latter went on the US tour for a year, then returned to and has remained with the Broadway production ever since.
#12Most Performances of a Lead Character?
Posted: 5/23/12 at 1:46pmTony Sheldon as Bernadette in Priscilla (Australia, London, Toronto, New York, and possibly tour)
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