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Brent Carver

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Actor 1951–2020 On stage 19932013

Brent Carver (November 17, 1951 – August 4, 2020) was a Canadian actor best known internationally for performances in Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman. He played the central role of Molina in the premier production in Toronto (winning the Dora Award for best actor in a musical), in London's West End (nominated for an Olivier Award) and on Broadway for which he won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A subsequent Broadway appearance in 1999 in Parade as Leo Frank, led to a second Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. Most of his career, however, was spent on Canadian stages and in Canadian film and television, work which was greeted with much acclaim and many awar…

On stage 5 productions, 20 years

1993 Kiss of the Spider Woman Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Prince 904 perf.
1993 Kiss Of The Spider Woman-the Musical Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Prince 906 perf.
1998 Parade Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Harold Prince 84 perf.
2004 King Lear Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by Jonathan Miller 33 perf.
2013 Romeo and Juliet Richard Rodgers Theatre · Revival · directed by David Leveaux 93 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Herndon Lackey 3 productions
Vincent D Elia 2 productions
Vanessa Williams 2 productions
Troy Myers 2 productions
Robert Montano 2 productions
Robert Dusold 2 productions
Mimi Turque 2 productions
Michael McCormick 2 productions
Merle Louise 2 productions
Maria Conchita Alonso 2 productions
Kirsti Carnahan 2 productions
John Norman Thomas 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • The most galvanic song had the factory girls sing that Leo was always trying to seduce them. In describing how Leo would say “Come Up to My Office,” Brent Carver suddenly became the evil man they were describing—a lecher who sang his song of seduction replete with ominous bass notes and sinuously deft dance steps. It wasn’t the real Leo a…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Brent Carver as the Master of Ceremonies in the 1987Stratford ShakespeareFestival of Canada production (Michael Cooper/Stratford ShakespeareFestival Archives)ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
  • Cast: Chita Rivera, Brent Carver, Anthony Crivello, Merle Louise, Herndon Lackey, Kristi Carnahanebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • The grim story of life in a prison cell in a South American police state unfolds the changing relationship between Molina (Brent Carver) a gay window dresser jailed on a morals charge and his heterosexual cellmate Valentin (Anthony Crivello), a revolutionary. The warden enlists Molina to get Valentin to reveal his fellow revolutionaries.…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • During the run Chita Rivera was replaced by Vanessa Williams and later by Maria Concita Alonso. Jeff Hyslop and later Howard McGillian, replaced Brent Carver, and Anthony Crivello was replaced by Brian Mitchell.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Prince cast Brent Carver-whose distinguished twenty-year career in Canada spanned both classical and musical theatre-as Molina, and Anthony Crivello-who had appeared on Broadway in Les Miserables and as Che in Evita-as Valentin.ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt

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