What is the name of Broadway actor Ben Cook's father, who later went on to adopt Jeremiah Porter?
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Jeremiah Porter Porter was born in manhattan. He grew up in New York City and Lorton, Virginia. He is a current member of Texas State University but his home resides in Brooklyn. He is the only child of Corinne Douglas and his father Jerry Porter has another daughter named Nakayla Porter. Porter attended the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan for drama in the fall of 2013. In 2015 Porter was adopted by Glenn Cook, the father of Ben Cook (actor) and attended the Metropolitan School of the Arts. He was among the first class to have graduated high school from The Metropolitan School of the Arts in 2016. While attending school he also attended French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts annually in the summer as part of his Musical theatre training.
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Ben Cook (actor) Benjamin Tyler Cook (born December 11, 1997) is an American actor, dancer and singer. A Helen Hayes Award nominee, he has appeared in three Broadway productions: "Ragtime", "Billy Elliot the Musical", "Tuck Everlasting" and the upcoming musical adaptation of "Mean Girls". He has also performed in two Broadway national tours, "Billy Elliot the Musical" and "Newsies the Musical;" and appeared on television in episodes of "30 Rock", "House of Cards, Veep" and .
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Jason Raize Jason Raize Rothenberg (July 20, 1975 – February 3, 2004), known professionally as Jason Raize, was an American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme. He was best known for his roles as the adult Simba in the Broadway stage musical version of "The Lion King" and the voice of Denahi in the animated Disney film "Brother Bear".
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The Room Where It Happens "The Room Where It Happens" is the fifth song from Act 2 of the musical "Hamilton", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. The musical relates the life of Alexander Hamilton and his relationships with his family, and Aaron Burr. Lin-Manuel Miranda composed the music, lyrics and book for the song and musical. The song relates the story of the Compromise of 1790.
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Harry Porter "For the fictional character, see Harry Potter."
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Ben Harney Benjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney (March 6, 1872 – March 2, 1938) was an American songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is regarded as one of the early ragtime composition. In 1924, the New York Times wrote that Ben Harney "probably did more to popularize ragtime than any other person." Time Magazine termed him "Ragtime's Father" in 1938.
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Monks (Oliver Twist) Edward "Monks" Leeford is a character in the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. He is actually the criminally-inclined half-brother of Oliver Twist, but he hides his identity. Monks' parents separated when he was a child, and his father had a relationship with a young woman, Agnes Fleming. This resulted in Agnes' pregnancy. She died in childbirth after giving birth to the baby that would be named Oliver Twist.
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Tommy Cook (actor) Tommy Cook (born July 5, 1930) is an American actor and former child actor of films and radio. He played a villainous tribesboy opposite Johnny Weissmuller in "Tarzan and the Leopard Woman".
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Rob Evan Rob Evan is a singer and actor, best known as the lead performer in numerous Broadway musicals, a performer in national and international tours of musical productions, and a featured vocalist on several music albums.
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David Burtka David Michael Burtka (born May 29, 1975) is an American actor and professional chef. He is known for his acting roles in theatre and television shows such as "How I Met Your Mother" and "The Play About the Baby". After his role on "How I Met Your Mother", Burtka gained media attention for dating Neil Patrick Harris, whom he later married in 2014.
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William Courtenay (actor) William Courtenay (June 19, 1875 – April 20, 1933) was a noted Broadway star and later film actor. He was born William Hancock Kelly. At age 19 in 1894, before his Broadway career took off, Courtenay appeared in Alexander Black's slide show "Miss Jerry". This was a sort of alternative entertainment to a new device by Thomas Edison called a Kinetoscope ala "moving pictures".
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Jay Brown James "Jay" Brown (also Mitchell) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", played by Jamie Borthwick. He made his first appearance on 14 December 2006. Jay's storylines include being part of a gang, coping with the death of his father Jase Dyer (Stephen Lord), being orphaned by age 14 which results in his going into foster care and then being taken care of by the Mitchell family, as well as maturing from a wayward teen, becoming a surrogate brother to Ben Mitchell (Joshua Pascoe/Harry Reid), helping Ben cover up the murder of Heather Trott (Cheryl Fergison), being arrested for having indecent images of a child on his mobile phone after discovering his girlfriend Linzi Bragg (Amy-Leigh Hickman) is below the age of consent, drug dealing and developing a drug habit by taking cocaine. In August 2017, in a two-hander episode between Phil and Jay, Jay finds out that Phil accidentally killed his biological father, a homeless boy who was at the Car Lot the night that Phil set it alight. However, it later turns out to be a lie, which Jay isn't aware of.
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Jeremiah Burton Jeremiah Burton (1814 – January 9, 1902) was a farmer. He was born about 1814 in South Carolina before moving to Rabun County, Georgia and first settled at Jones Ford on the Tallulah River. The town of Burton, Georgia was named after its Postmaster Jacob Silas Burton, Jeremiah's son. Jeremiah Burton was a popular area citizen who occasionally served as a bailiff for the local superior court. According to family legend, he was buried with his hat on.
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Dan Emmett Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett (October 29, 1815 – June 28, 1904) was an American songwriter, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.
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Conversations with My Father Conversations with My Father is a play by Herb Gardner. The play, which ran on Broadway in 1992 to 1993, was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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The Bad Man (play) The Bad Man was a 1920 Broadway three-act comedy written by Porter Emerson Browne,
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Joel Grey Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and photographer. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film versions of the Kander & Ebb musical "Cabaret". He has won an Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe Award.
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Edward S. Porter Edward S. Porter (October 19, 1848 – June 13, 1902) was a physician in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a physician for the Louisville city sanitary force, the Orphan's home, at the nearby insane asylum, and at Simmons College of Kentucky.
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A Cup of Kindness (play) A Cup of Kindness is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the sixth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of the actors formed a regular core cast for the Aldwych farces. The play depicts the feud between two suburban families.
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J. Samuel Cook Samuel J. Cook, III (born November 12, 1983) is an African-American playwright, journalist, educator and writer currently serving as director of the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center in New Orleans, a non-profit organization designed to improve quality of life conditions for residents of New Orleans' historic 7th Ward. His one-act play "Barren Fields" won an NAACP ACT-SO medal in 2002. Also an educator, he formerly worked with at-risk youth at Walter L. Cohen Senior High in New Orleans. He was born in Toledo, Ohio.
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Elphaba Elphaba Thropp is a fictional character in "" by Gregory Maguire, as well as in the Broadway and West End adaptations, "Wicked".
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Chester Gregory Chester Gregory, also known as CHΞSS (born December 10, 1978), is an American actor, singer and songwriter from Gary, Indiana. His breakthrough came with his portrayal of Jackie Wilson in The Jackie Wilson Story, which led to his Broadway debut as Seaweed in Hairspray. Gregory's other credits include principal roles in Tarzan, Cry-Baby, Dreamgirls and Sister Act. Gregory produced and starred in a look into the life of Jackie Wilson in The Eve of Jackie. Gregory has received numerous awards including the Joseph Jefferson and NAACP Theatre Award.