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Bill Buell

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Composer b. 1952 On stage 19792024

Bill Buell (b. 1952) is an American actor who appeared in the original cast of Titanic (1997), the Maury Yeston-Peter Stone musical, as well as the long-running revue Urinetown.

On stage 12 productions, 45 years

1979 Once a Catholic Helen Hayes Theatre · Original · directed by Mike Ockrent 6 perf.
1981 The First Martin Beck Theatre · Original · directed by Alan Johnson 31 perf.
1989 Welcome to the Club Music Box · Original · directed by Peter Mark Schifter 12 perf.
1990 The Miser Circle In The Square Theatre · Revival · directed by Stephen Porter 93 perf.
1991 Taking Steps Circle In The Square Theatre · Original · directed by Alan Strachan 78 perf.
1993 The Who\ St. James Theatre · Original · directed by Des McAnuff 899 perf.
1997 Titanic Lunt-Fontanne Theatre · Original · directed by Richard Jones 804 perf.
2006 The History Boys Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Nicholas Hytner 185 perf.
2007 Inherit the Wind Lyceum Theatre · Revival · directed by Doug Hughes 100 perf.
2012 Cyrano de Bergerac American Airlines Theatre · Revival · directed by Jamie Lloyd 52 perf.
2019 Ink Samuel J Friedman Theatre · Revival · directed by Rupert Goold 87 perf.
2024 An Enemy of the People Circle in the Square Theatre · Revival 112 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once8 names

Pippa Pearthree 4 productions
Paul Kandel 2 productions
Michael Cerveris 2 productions
Mia Dillon 2 productions
Marcia Mitzman 2 productions
Jody Gelb 2 productions
Henry Stram 2 productions
Clarke Thorell 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. 4 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

Titanic

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: Bill Buell, Judith Blazer, Victoria Clark, Alma Cuervo, John Cunningham, Michael Cerveris, David Garrison, Brian d’Arcy James, Larry Keith, Martin Moran, Jennifer Piech, Theresa McCarthy, Don Stephesonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Our genius-like, incomparable, stupendous, original Broadway /Off-Broadway cast, including David Beach, Bill Buell, Dwayne Clark, Jennifer Cody, Rachell Coloff, Rick Crom, John Cullum, John Deyle, Hunter Foster, Victor W Hawks, Erin Hill, Ken Jennings, Spencer Kayden, Megan Lawrence, Stacie Morgain Lewis, Daniel Marcus, Jeff McCarthy, Nan…ebooks/Kotis, Greg/Urinetown_ The Musical - Greg Kotis & Mark Hollmann.txt
  • |ByeielGAGs rio Dic HOMO IGE B IGOea LG GRADO LS UO Ne Bill Buell Cuithibenterr sresistotestein eyes ous ous treotereanorsconsrre racers Charley Lang STANDBYStheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt
  • “UNDERSTUDIES: John MacKay (Harpagon), Jennifer Roblin (Elise/Marianne), Willis Sparks (Valere/Cleante), Bill Buell (La Fleche/Simon), Joseph Jamrog (Anselme/Policeman), John Tyrrell (Brindavoine/La Merluche/Simon/Assistant), Lucy Martin (Frosine/Dame Claude) A comedy in two acts. The action takes place in Harpagon’s Paris house in 1668.…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt
  • Jonathan Hogan, Christopher Benjamin, Spike McClure Top Left: Jane Summerhays, Benjamin, Bill Buell, McCluretheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt
  • ChristopherBenjamin, Bill Buell, Spike McClure, Pippa Pearthree Top Right: Jane Summerhays, Buell, Jonathan Hogan, McCluretheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — composer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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