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Anthony Rapp

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Actor b. 1971 On stage 19822014

Anthony Deane Rapp (born October 26, 1971) is an American actor and singer who originated the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway production of Rent. Following his original performance of the role in 1996, he reprised it in the film version of the show and the show's United States tour in 2009. He also performed Charlie Brown in the 1999 Broadway revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and originated the role of Lucas in the musical If/Then in 2014. From 2017 to 2024, he played Commander Paul Stamets on the television series Star Trek: Discovery. Rapp is also known for accusing actor Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct in 2017 during the #MeToo movement over an alleged event from 1986. The…

On stage 7 productions, 32 years

1982 The Little Prince and the Aviator Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Jerry Adler
1986 Precious Sons Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Norman René 60 perf.
1990 Six Degrees of Separation Vivian Beaumont Theater · Original · directed by Jerry Zaks 485 perf.
1996 Rent Nederlander Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Greif 5,123 perf.
1999 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Theatre not recorded · Revival · directed by Michael Mayer 149 perf.
2005 The 24 Hour Plays 2005 American Airlines Theatre · Original · directed by Maria Mileaf
2014 If/Then Richard Rodgers Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Greif 401 perf.

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Worked with more than once3 names

Tracie Thoms 2 productions
Idina Menzel 2 productions
Adam Pascal 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

  • Two years before I left university in San Diego to study Shakespeare in England, I travelled alone to New York to visit my friend Anthony Rapp, and to see my first live Broadway shows. Anthony and I, you may remember, performed together in Joliet West High School’s 1983 production of Oliver! Off and on through my early college experiences…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • ANTHONY RAPP has been acting professionally since he was nine years old. He’s best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning landmark rock opera Rent, taking the show from off-Broadway to Broadway, Chicago, and London. He shared an OBIE Award with the rest of the original cast for his perform…ebooks/Rapp, Anthony/Without You_ A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent - Anthony Rapp.txt
  • On Thursday, Anthony Rapp came to the Chatterbox , fresh off the heels of his triumphant return to Rent . I asked him about all those Rent -heads out there and if there was any inappropriateness. He said that the only indecent proposals he ever got in fan mail were when he was on Broadway playing Charlie Brown. Disgusting? You decide. Act…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 1 - Seth Rudetsky.txt
  • I saw Rent this week and Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp were great. Typical me, I spent a chunk of the show obsessing over the fact that Anthony is in full winter gear for most of the show. Did he have a fit during tech rehearsals? "Hello! I'm performing on a stage under 1,000 lights! Why are you making me wear a scarf? And why must it be w…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 1 - Seth Rudetsky.txt
  • For years, Jonathan knew he would someday make his mark on the theatre. In Anthony Rapp’s memoir Without You , he tells the story that at his 24th birthday party, a few weeks before Rent started rehearsals for its off-Broadway run, a friend came up to him and pointed to Jonathan Larson. “Who’s that guy?” he asked, perplexed. Anthony told…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
  • I was also in Rent when Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal came back to play Mark and Roger toward the end of the run. When I was in high school, back when America Online chatrooms were big, there were theatre chatrooms where you could trade bootlegs. Well, before the Rent album came out, there was a frenzy for Rent bootlegs. VHS bootlegs, cass…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt

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