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Brian Davies

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ActorOn stage 19592000

Brian Davies is an American actor who originated the role of Rolf Gruber in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music (1959), and later played Hero in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) opposite Zero Mostel.

On stage 3 productions, 41 years

1959 The Sound of Music Lunt-Fontanne Theatre · Original · directed by Vincent J. Donehue 1,443 perf.
1962 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott 964 perf.
2000 James Joyce's The Dead Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Seán Curran 120 perf.

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Also credited on1 work

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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In the literature4 passages

  • Cast: Mary Martin, Theodore Bikel, Patricia Neway, Kurt Kasznar, Marion Marlowe, Lauri Peters, Brian Davies, John Randolph, Nan McFarland, Joey Heathertonebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Zero Mostel, John Carradine, Raymond Walburn, Jack Gilford, David Burns, Ruth Kobart, Brian Davies, Preshy Marker, Ronald Holgate, Eddie Phillipsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Brian Davies and Preshy Marker are a pair of dizzily star-crossed lovers and Zero Mostel the slave who is fighting for his freedom in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum . Below, Mostel with Pat Fox (Illustration Credit 22)ebooks/Secrest, Meryle/Stephen Sondheim - Meryle Secrest.txt
  • Rand Mitchell, Mary Cooper, David Atkinson, Christopher Hewett, Natalie Schafer, Brian Davies, Erika Slezak, Brian McKeon Martha Swope Phototheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

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