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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#1
Posted: 4/28/18 at 8:11pm

Earlier today I was trying to compile a list of performers who were both in the production and the revival. Here is the list so far that I created. (It should be right, I doubled checked on Playbill Vault.)

Krysta Rodriguez: Spring Awakening

Beth Level: 42nd Street

Ann Reinking: Chicago

Priscilla Lopez: Pippin

Carol Channing: Hello Dolly!

I know my list is very incomplete so what other performs did both the original production and the revial?

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#2
Posted: 4/28/18 at 8:21pm

Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun

Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard

Jason Robards in the off-Broadway and later Broadway revivals of The Iceman Cometh

John Raitt in Carousel

Alfred Drake in Kismet

Richard Kiley in Man of la Mancha

Joan Diener in Man of la Mancha (different revival)

Angela Lansbury in Mame

Richard Burton in Camelot

Joel Grey in Cabaret

Yul Brynner in The King and I

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady

Robert Coote in My Fair Lady

Alan Cumming in Cabaret

Updated On: 4/28/18 at 08:21 PM

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#3
Posted: 4/28/18 at 9:02pm

Alvin Ing was in the original PACIFIC OVERTURES and in the 2004 revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#4
Posted: 4/28/18 at 9:20pm

The Other One said: "

Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard

Richard Burton in Camelot

Joel Grey in Cabaret

Yul Brynner in The King and I

Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady

Robert Coote in My Fair Lady

Alan Cumming in Cabaret"

Of course I missed all the freebies.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#5
Posted: 4/28/18 at 9:38pm

Daniel Jenkins in Big River.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#6
Posted: 4/28/18 at 10:20pm

Jon Jon Briones in Miss Saigon

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#7
Posted: 4/28/18 at 10:31pm

Grasan Kingsberry, The Color Purple

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#8
Posted: 4/29/18 at 6:26am

"Alan Cumming in Cabaret"

Cumming has been in different versions of the revival, but he wasn't in the original.

Michael Gruber in A Chorus Line.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#9
Posted: 4/29/18 at 9:07am

Cathleen Nesbit in Fair Lady '56 and '81.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#10
Posted: 4/29/18 at 9:07am

It was fun to see John Rubinstein as Pippin in 1974 and then as Pippin’s father 40 year’s later.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#11
Posted: 4/29/18 at 12:18pm

ghostlight2 said: ""Alan Cumming in Cabaret"

Cumming has been in different versions of the revival, but he wasn't in the original.."

Fair enough. He was in both the Mendes revival and the revival of that revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#12
Posted: 4/29/18 at 1:34pm

Jill Martin was Julie Andrews' understudy in the original London production of My Fair Lady, Liz Robertson's understudy in 1979 and Mrs. Eynsford-Hill in the 2001 NT revival

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#13
Posted: 4/29/18 at 1:37pm

Jessica Hendy was an understudy for Grizabella during the original production of Cats and was also the understudy for the recent revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#14
Posted: 4/29/18 at 9:33pm

"Fair enough. [Cumming] was in both the Mendes [Cabaret] revival and the revival of that revival."

Yes. That's why I said "Cumming has been in different versions of the revival, but he wasn't in the original.." :)

If we are including people who were in revivals of the same show?

Jose Llana: The King and I. First Lun Tha, then the King.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#15
Posted: 4/30/18 at 1:04am

Ben Stiller was the son in the original production of House of Blue Leaves and then the father in the revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#16
Posted: 4/30/18 at 1:17am

Stephen Spinella was Prior Walter in the original Broadway version of Angels in American and is now playing Roy Cohn in the revival at Berkeley Rep in California. Quite a coup.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#17
Posted: 4/30/18 at 7:48am

John Rubenstein was Pippin in the original and then played Charlemagne in the revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#18
Posted: 4/30/18 at 9:30am

Tony Sheldon was Bernadette in the original Australian, West End and Broadway PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT and is starring in the current 10th anniversary revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#19
Posted: 5/1/18 at 10:04am

Judy Kuhn was (of course!) the OBC Cosette and then a replacement Fantine in the first Les Miz revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#20
Posted: 5/1/18 at 3:01pm

Eric Jordan Young - ensemble in the original production of Ragtime, Booker T. Washington in the revival.

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Performers Who Were In The Original Production and The revival#21
Posted: 5/1/18 at 4:16pm

Not a formal "revival," per se...but I absolutely love that Chip Zien returned to Into the Woods as the Narrator/Mysterious Man a few years back. That's full circling in the truest sense!

When I saw him at Sondheim Unplugged, he sort of alluded to this by performing both parts of "No More."

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