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James Naughton

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Actor b. 1945 On stage 19772004

James Naughton (born December 6, 1945) is an American actor and director. On television he is best known as astronaut Pete Burke in the 1974 single-season television series Planet of the Apes. He won Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical in 1990 for City of Angels, and again in 1997 for the role of lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running revival of the musical Chicago.

On stage 7 productions, 27 years

1977 I Love My Wife Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Gene Saks 872 perf.
1980 Whose Life is it Anyway? Royale Theatre · Return-Engagement · directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg 96 perf.
1989 City of Angels Virginia Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Blakemore 878 perf.
1992 Four Baboons Adoring the Sun Vivian Beaumont Theater · Original · directed by Peter Hall 38 perf.
1996 Chicago Richard Rodgers Theatre · Revival · directed by Walter Bobbie 9,999 perf.
2004 Democracy Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Blakemore 173 perf.
2004 Prymate Longacre Theatre · Original · directed by Edwin Sherin 5 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 once3 names

Tom Wopat 3 productions
Michele Pawk 2 productions
John Dossett 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.

In the literature8 passages

  • Cast: James Naughton, Gregg Edelman, Randy Graff, Dee Hoty, Kay McClelland, Rene Auberjonoisebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Ann Reinking, Bede Neuwirth, James Naughton, Joel Grey, Marcia Lewis, J. Loeffelholz, D. Sabellaebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Chicago , which won Tony Awards for Best Revival, Actor (James Naughton as Billy Flynn), and Actress (Bebe Neuwirth as Velma Kelly), as well as for Director (Walter Bobbie) and Choreographer (Ann Reinking), stuck close to – indeed, took great pains to honour – its original incarnation on Broadway. Reinking, a dancer and choreographer long…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • I had the first dressing room on stage right. James Naughton had my dressing room during the Chicago revival, and I know we both used the bunk bed. Audra used it after me, during Porgy and Bess, and we talked about how we both loved the steam heater in the bathroom. Because the theater’s so old, there was a steam heater! It was like Bikra…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • ROBERT RYAN (seated), STACY KEACH JAMES NAUGHTON, GERALDINE FITZGERALD in “LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • Fredricka Weber 1970-71- Clifton Davis, Michael Douglas, Julie Garfield, Martha Roger RathHenry, James Naughton, Tricia O'Neil, Kipp Osborne, Walter Wilhson burn, Ayn Ruymen, Jennifer Salt, Joan Van Ark, Atherton, 1971-72: Jonelle Allen, Maureen Anderman, William RobRichard Backus, Adrienne Barbeau, Cara Duff-MacCormick, Beatrice Foxworth…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (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.
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