What is the lead a character in a play whose cast includes an American actress known primarily for her work in theatre?
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Hairspray (2002 album) Hairspray: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2002 musical "Hairspray". The show is an adaptation of the 1988 film of the same name. It features performances from the show's cast, which includes Harvey Fierstein, Linda Hart, Dick Latessa, Kerry Butler, Clarke Thorell, Mary Bond Davis, Laura Bell Bundy, Matthew Morrison, Corey Reynolds, and Marissa Jaret Winokur as the lead character of Tracy Turnblad. The cast recording earned the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
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Kerry Butler Kerry Marie Butler (born June 18, 1971) is an American actress known primarily for her work in theatre.
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Constance Crawley Constance Crawley (30 March 1870 – 17 March 1919) was an English actress best known for leading roles in Shakespeare tragedies. She gained notice on the American stage at the start of the 20th century, and later starred in and wrote several silent films.
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Gloria Foster Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 – September 29, 2001) was an American actress, most known for her stage performances both on and off Broadway, including her acclaimed roles in plays "In White America" and "Having Our Say," winning three Obie Awards during her career.
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Sarah Stiles Sarah Stiles (born June 20, 1979) is an American singer and actress known for her work in Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre.
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Jessica Boevers Jessica Boevers (born August 25, 1972) is an American actress who has appeared in a number of notable Broadway productions, as well as Off-Broadway, film, and television.
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Kitty Winn Katherine Tupper "Kitty" Winn (born February 21, 1944) is an American theatre and film actress. She is best known for her roles as the heroin addict Helen in the romantic drama "The Panic in Needle Park" and her recurring role of Sharon Spencer in the horror film franchise "The Exorcist".
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Claire Bloom Patricia Claire Blume CBE (born 15 February 1931) is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is famous for leading roles in plays such as "A Streetcar Named Desire," "A Doll’s House", and "Long Day's Journey into Night", and has starred in nearly sixty films.
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Carla Stickler Carla Stickler is an American actress, best known for her work on the musical "Wicked".
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Character actor A character actor or character actress is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesting, or eccentric characters. The term, often contrasted with that of leading actor, is somewhat abstract and open to interpretation. In a literal sense, all actors can be considered character actors since they all play "characters", but in the usual sense it is an actor who plays a distinctive and important supporting role.
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Jackie Burns Jackie Burns is an American actress working in musical theater.
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American Buffalo (play) American Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet which had its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago. After two more showcase productions it opened on Broadway in 1977.
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Mary Beth Hurt Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946) is an American actress of stage and screen. She is a three-time Tony Award-nominated actress.
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Victoria Matlock Victoria Matlock is an American musical theatre actress. She appeared in the Broadway and Off-Broadway productions of "Million Dollar Quartet" in the role of Dyanne.
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Dorothea Neumann Dorothea Neumann, sometimes referred to as Dorothy Neumann or Dorothy Newman was an American character actress. Her career spanned six decades and encompassed television, film and theatre work.
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Julyana Soelistyo Julyana Soelistyo is an American stage and film actress who, in 1998, was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in "Golden Child".
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Janine DiVita Janine DiVita is an American actress best known for her roles on Broadway and in musical theater.
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Amelia Holman Gilfert Catherine "Amelia" Holman Gilfert (1789-1833) was an American (originally British) stage actor and theater manager. She was widely famed in the early 19th-century United States, and referred to by contemporary critics as the first star of the American theater. She is regarded to have notably influenced American theater in the early 19th-century. She was the manager of the Charleston Theater in 1823-24 and 1824-25.
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Marilyn Cooper Marilyn Cooper (December 14, 1934 – April 22, 2009) was an American actress known primarily for her work on the Broadway stage.
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Corona Riccardo Corona Riccardo (c. 1878October 15, 1917) was an Italian born American actress who had a brief Broadway stage career before leaving to become a wife and mother. Born in Naples she came to acting in 1894 playing a Mexican girl in a play at the Empire Theatre. Wilson Barrett engaged her for a role in his play "The Sign of the Cross" which he took on tour of the United States. Riccardo played the role of Ancaria and later played Berenice in the same play. Robert B. Mantell in 1898 who struck by her beauty also cast her in two Shakespeare plays, "Romeo and Juliet" and "Othello". Author Lewis Strang writing in 1899 said Riccardo was the most promising actress in America at the time. Towards the end of 1898 Mantell chose her for another Shakespeare part, Ophelia im Hamlet. Afterwards she was due to join Augustin Daly's Theatre Company but Daly died in 1899. In 1899 she gained her biggest fame by playing Iras in the first stage production of Ben-Hur.
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Sabra Jones Sabra Jones is an American actress, director, writer, and producer known for her expansive collection of artistic work and for founding The Mirror Theater Ltd. She has produced over 172 theatrical productions in New York City, London, and around the country, including the 1982 Broadway production of "Alice in Wonderland." Jones has acted on Broadway, at the Metropolitan Opera, in numerous regional productions, and in select television and film roles. She currently lives between Manhattan and Vermont, working as the Founding & Producing Artistic Director for The Mirror Theater Ltd and for The Mirror’s Vermont chapter, the Greensboro Arts Alliance and Residency.
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The Nance The Nance is a play written by Douglas Carter Beane. It involves the lives of burlesque performers during the 1930s. A "nance" was a camp stock character in vaudeville and burlesque. The play is a production of Lincoln Center Theater that premiered on Broadway in 2013. It received five Tony Award nominations, and won three awards. It starred Nathan Lane as Chauncey.