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Beth Fowler

Shows · Beth Fowler

Actor b. 1940 On stage 19702007

Beth Fowler is an American actress and singer, best known for her performances on Broadway and for her role as Sister Ingalls, on Orange Is the New Black. She is a two-time Tony Award nominee, as well as two-time winner for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for her role as Sister Ingalls in the ensemble cast of Orange is the New Black.

On stage 12 productions, 37 years

1970 Gantry George Abbott Theatre · Original · directed by Onna White 1 perf.
1973 A Little Night Music Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Prince 601 perf.
1976 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Mark Hellinger · Original 7 perf.
1979 Peter Pan Lunt Fontanne Theatre · Revival 554 perf.
1983 Baby Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Revival · directed by Wayne Cilento 241 perf.
1985 Take Me Along Martin Beck Theatre · Revival · directed by Thomas Gruenewald 1 perf.
1987 Teddy & Alice Minskoff · Original · directed by John Driver 77 perf.
1989 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Susan H. Schulman 188 perf.
1994 Beauty and the Beast Palace Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Jess Roth 5,461 perf.
2001 Bells Are Ringing Plymouth Theatre · Revival · directed by Tina Landau 68 perf.
2003 The Boy from Oz Theatre not recorded · Original · directed by Philip William McKinley 364 perf.
2007 Inherit the Wind Lyceum Theatre · Revival · directed by Doug Hughes 100 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

John Witham 3 productions
Spence Ford 2 productions
Michael McCarty 2 productions
Marc Kudisch 2 productions
Len Cariou 2 productions
Kurt Knudson 2 productions
Keith Savage 2 productions
Josh Rhodes 2 productions
Gordon Stanley 2 productions
Gibby Brand 2 productions
Emily Hsu 2 productions
Bill Nabel 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. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on1 work

Beauty and the Beast

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In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Susan Egan, Terrence Mann, Burke Moses, Gary Beach, Beth Fowler, Tom Bosley, Heath Lamberts, Eleanor Glockner, Stacey Logan, Brian Press, Kenny Raskinebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • If it is at all possible for humans to resemble cartoon characters, the actors resemble their cartoon versions with some degree of success. Terrence Mann as the Beast, Susan Egan as Belle, Tom Bosley as her father, Beth Fowler as the teapot, Burke Moses as Gaston (who wants to win Belle), and Gary Beach as the candelabra all struggle thro…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Afterwards, I hosted a post-performance discussion with some original cast members and the original co-director/choreographer, George Faison. Beth Fowler recalled how she was offered an audition to be in the chorus of the original show and to understudy the First Lady. Her agent told her that she absolutely should not audition because she…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 1 - Seth Rudetsky.txt
  • I loved Baby, and then I got the cast album and loved it all over again. Liz Callaway was amazing and Catherine Cox was fantastic and Beth Fowler did this little thing vocally that I inadvertently stole! It’s a sort of vocal fall-off. It got lodged in my brain. I loved that show.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • Bob Gunton as Sweeney Todd and Beth Fowler as Mrs. Lovett in the 1989 Circle-in-the-Square productionebooks/Unknown/Four by Sondheim (Applause Musical Library) - Unknown.txt
  • Despo, Barbara Lang, Benjamin Rayson, Teri Ralston, Beth Fowler, and Gene Varrone opened February 25, 1973theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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