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Brenda Braxton

Shows · Brenda Braxton

ActorOn stage 19791996

On stage 6 productions, 17 years

1979 But Never Jam Today Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Talley Beatty 8 perf.
1982 Cats Winter Garden Theatre · Original · directed by Trevor Nunn 7,485 perf.
1988 Legs Diamond Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Allan Ackerman 64 perf.
1992 Jelly’s Last Jam Virginia Theatre · Original · directed by George C. Wolfe 569 perf.
1995 Smokey Joe's Cafe Theatre not recorded · Original · directed by Jerry Zaks 2,036 perf.
1996 Chicago Richard Rodgers Theatre · Revival · directed by Walter Bobbie 9,999 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 once12 names

Mamie Duncan-Gibbs 3 productions
Adrian Bailey 3 productions
Stephanie Pope 2 productions
Michael Arnold 2 productions
Lillias White 2 productions
Ken Ard 2 productions
Jill Nicklaus 2 productions
Don Johanson 2 productions
Darlene Wilson 2 productions
Colleen Dunn 2 productions
Charlotte D Amboise 2 productions
B. J. Crosby 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. 6 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

Smokey Joe's Cafe

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.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • 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 — actor — 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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