Alejandro "Alec" Mapa, is an American actor, comedian and writer, and got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B.D. Wong for the role of who in the Broadway production of "M. Butterfly"?
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Alec Mapa Alejandro "Alec" Mapa ( ; born July 10, 1965) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B.D. Wong for the role of Song Liling in the Broadway production of "M. Butterfly". He later gained recognition for roles such as Adam Benet on "Half & Half", Suzuki St. Pierre on "Ugly Betty" and Vern on "Desperate Housewives". Mapa recurred as Renzo on "Switched at Birth".
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B. D. Wong Bradley Darryl "BD" Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor. Wong won a Tony Award for his performance as Song Liling in "M. Butterfly", becoming the only actor in Broadway history to receive the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theatre World Award for the same role. He has since gained more notability for playing the roles on "", Father Ray Mukada on "Oz", Dr. John Lee on "Awake", Dr. Henry Wu in the first "Jurassic Park" film as well as the fourth entry, "Jurassic World", and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme in the film "Seven Years in Tibet". As of August 13, 2017, Wong is the host of the new HLN medical documentary series "Something's Killing Me With BD Wong".
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Adam Chanler-Berat Adam Brian Chanler-Berat (born December 31, 1986) is an American stage and film actor. He is best known for his work on Broadway, originating the roles of Henry in "Next to Normal," Boy in "Peter and the Starcatcher", and Nino in "Amélie."
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Daphne Rubin-Vega Daphne Rubin-Vega (born November 18, 1969) is a Panamanian-American dancer, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is best known for originating the roles of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical "Rent" and Lucy in the Off-Broadway play "Jack Goes Boating".
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Madame Aphrodite (musical) Madame Aphrodite was a short-lived off-Broadway musical by playwright Tad Mosel and composer/lyricist Jerry Herman, which ran for 13 performances in 1961. It is notable as the only stage musical in the entire Jerry Herman canon (which includes smash hits such as "Hello Dolly!", "Mame" and "La Cage aux Folles" as well as less successful but highly respected flops like "Dear World", "Mack & Mabel" and "The Grand Tour") that never spawned an original cast album, and has never been performed since its original production.
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Vivian Nixon Vivian Nichole Nixon, (born May 30, 1984 in Miami, Florida) is a dancer and an actress. She made her debut on Broadway as Kalimba in "Hot Feet".
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Howard Wong Howard Wong — known as "Masta Wong" — is a three-time winner on Fuse TV's "Pants-Off Dance-Off".
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Reva Rice Reva Rice is an American musical theatre actress and singer. She originated the role of Pearl in "Starlight Express" on Broadway, and played the character in the show's 1992 London run. She also played the role on tour in the USA and in Las Vegas.
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Songs for a New World Songs for a New World is a work of musical theatre written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. This was Jason Robert Brown's first produced show, originally produced Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in 1995.
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Darren Criss Darren Everett Criss (born February 5, 1987) is an American actor, singer and songwriter. One of the founding members and co-owners of StarKid Productions, a musical theater company based in Chicago, Criss first garnered attention playing the lead role of Harry Potter in StarKid's musical production of "A Very Potter Musical". The theater troupe made "Billboard" history when their original album, "Me and My Dick", became the first charting student-produced musical recording , debuting at number eleven on the Top Cast Albums chart in 2010.
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David Belasco David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story "Madame Butterfly" for the stage, and he launched the theatrical career of many actors, including Mary Pickford, Lenore Ulric and Barbara Stanwyck. Belasco pioneered many innovative new forms of stage lighting and special effects in order to create realism and naturalism.
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George M! George M! is a Broadway musical based on the life of George M. Cohan, the biggest Broadway star of his day who was known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway." The book for the musical was written by Michael Stewart, John Pascal, and Francine Pascal. Music and lyrics were, of course, by George M. Cohan himself, with revisions for the musical by Cohan's daughter, Mary Cohan.
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Birds of Paradise (musical) Birds of Paradise is a musical with music by David Evans, lyrics by Winnie Holzman, and the book by Evans and Holzman. It had a brief run Off-Broadway in 1987. The story involves a group of amateur actors involved in a musical adaptation of "The Seagull".
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Adam Jacobs Adam Jacobs is an American actor, best known for originating the title role in Disney's "Aladdin" on Broadway.
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Rachel Rockwell Rachel Rockwell is an American theater director, choreographer and performer. She graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati) and has a BFA in Theater Performance from the University of Evansville (IN). She moved to Chicago in 1991 and began performing and choreographing. She has appeared on Broadway in Mamma Mia! and the national tours of Mamma Mia! (Equity Dance Captain); and Harold Prince's Showboat. In 2010, she was named "Best Director" by Chicago Magazine. and Chicagoan of the Year: Theater 2012 by the Chicago Tribune. In July 2014, Goodman Theatre, in association with Liza Lerner and Kevin McCollum, produced the first major revival of Brigadoon in two decades—directed and choreographed by Rockwell, who, with Brian Hill (author), updated the book, with permission from the Lerner and Loewe estates. In his New York Times review, Charles Isherwood called her production "a first-class revival that boasts an infectious buoyancy of spirit and a welcome absence of postmodern flourishes." Her productions of "Ride The Cyclone" and "Billy Eliot" were named two of the Top Ten productions in Chicago for 2015. Her U.S. premiere Chicago Shakespeare Theatre production of "Ride The Cyclone" was then produced Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, and named Best of 2016 by the New York Times. She directed the World Premiere of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" at Minneapolis Children's Theatre in April, 2016.
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Seussical Seussical is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the stories of Dr. Seuss (mainly "Horton Hears a Who!", "Horton Hatches the Egg" and "Miss Gertrude McFuzz") that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour. It has become a beloved classic for schools, communities, and regional theatres.
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Kissy Simmons Kissy Simmons is an American actress. "Kissy" is short for Kissimmee, the Floridian city near Orlando about 80 miles from Floral City where she was born. She is best known for playing Nala in the Broadway production of "The Lion King" and as of 2011 is reprising the role in the Las Vegas production at Mandalay Bay beginning May 5, 2009.
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Amaluna Amaluna is a touring show by Cirque du Soleil, created and directed by Diane Paulus. It premiered in Montréal, Canada, on April 19, 2012. Loosely inspired by William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the story takes place on an island governed by goddesses. During a storm, a group of men are washed up on shore. The queen's daughter falls for one of the young men, and the trials of their love are the basis of the show's main narrative through-line. The show is notable for having a cast that is 70% female.
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Leigh Zimmerman Leigh Zimmerman (born March 28, 1969) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has appeared on Broadway in "The Will Rogers Follies", "Crazy for You" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" with Nathan Lane and in London's West End in "The Seven Year Itch", "Chicago", "The Producers" and "A Chorus Line ", for which she won an Olivier Award in 2013.
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Freak (play) Freak was a one-man show, written and performed by actor/comedian John Leguizamo. The play debuted at Cort Theater on Broadway in 1998 and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show.
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Charlie's Place "Charlie's Place" written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman is a song from the musical "Over Here!", which opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on March 6, 1974. It was successful as a single for Maxene Andrews who debuted the song in the show.
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A Change in Me "A Change in Me" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Tim Rice for the musical "Beauty and the Beast", a stage adaptation of Disney's 1991 animated film of the same name. The song was written specifically for American singer Toni Braxton when she joined the production to play the role of Belle in 1998, four years into the musical's run. Menken and Rice wrote "A Change in Me" to appease Braxton after Rice promised the singer, who was hesitant to sign her contract, that he would write an entirely new song for her to perform in the musical on the condition that she finally agree to play Belle.