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re: Gates' odd mistake.

Posted by: AlanScott 07:00 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: Gates' odd mistake. - portenopete 06:37 pm EDT 03/16/14
So many actors have played the full runs of long-running shows, although it does somewhat depend on what you're counting as a long run.

In fact, in La Mancha, Robert Rounseville played the entire run, except for vacations, and I think that Eleanor Knapp and one or two other supporting people may have stayed for the entire run as well. I think Renato Cibelli was there for the entire run. Ray Middleton was there at the end, but he had taken a five-month break from Broadway to do the national tour. But otherwise, except for vacations, he did the whole run.

Famous examples that come to mind are Myron McCormick in South Pacific and Jerry Orbach in Chicago (admittedly not that long a run).

Gordon Dilworth played the entire run of My Fair Lady, although not always in the same roles. Near the end he moved up to the role of Doolittle and close the run in that role, but before that he'd been there the whole time in his original roles. In London, I believe Zena Dare played the whole run as Mrs. Higgins.

Off-Broadway, Karen Johnson played the entire run of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. It used to be said that William Duell and Marion Selee played the entire run of the Off-Broadway Threepenny, but he did leave near the end of the run and she died a few months before it closed.

Did someone play the entire run of Cats? I know that someone was there for an awfully long time, though perhaps no the entire run.

Anyway, I'm sure there are lots of examples.


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