Michael James Leslie

Michael is a Cornell Law School Graduate who left law for the profession that made him truly come alive. Other credits: Broadway: Revival of Hair, The Wiz (Lion), Senator Joe, Little Shop of Horrors (2003 Revival). National Tours: Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors. Off-Broadway: Romance in Hard Times, The Butter fingers Angel, Warren G, Little Shop of Horrors, Mowgli, American Heroes. Regional: The Wiz (Muny Opera, Kansas City Starlight), Little Shop of Horrors (Dallas Summer Musicals), Once on This Island (St. Louis Rep, Lincolnshire Marriott), The Happy Elf (First Children’s Theater of Milwaukee), A Christmas Carol (Norfolk Stage & John Engeman Theatre), The Hot Mikado & Show Boat (Westchester Broadway Theatre), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Pioneer Theatre), Call Me Madam, Little Shop of Horrors (Paper Mill Playhouse & Kansas City Rep), Man of La Mancha (Barter Theatre), Sweeney Todd, Guys and Dolls (Theatre of Virginia), Boys from Syracuse (Olney Theatre), All About Us (Westport Country Playhouse), Shout Up a Morning ( La Jolla Playhouse), My One and Only (Cape Playhouse). Concerts: Kristina (Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, London, released on Decca Records), Home for the Holidays (Key West Pops Orchestra), The Gig (York Theatre, released on Jay Records), An Evening with Tim Rice (Holder’s Festival, Barbados), Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber (Scandinavia), Peter Nero and the Philadelphia Pops (Guest Artist). Television: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2015, 2016), Cupid, Conan O’Brien Show, Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with Ellen Greene. Awards: BTA of Chicago Nomination 2010, Best Featured Actor in a Musical or Review for Once on this Island; 2005 Denver Post Ovation Award Nomination, Best Supporting Actor Touring for Little Shop of Horrors.