Theatre Register

Jonathan Freeman

Shows · Jonathan Freeman

Actor b. 1950 On stage 19742014

Jonathan Freeman (born February 5, 1950) is an American actor and puppeteer. He is known for voicing Jafar in Disney's Aladdin franchise, as well as the Kingdom Hearts franchise and the 2011 Aladdin musical.

On stage 11 productions, 40 years

1974 Sherlock Holmes Broadhurst Theatre · Revival · directed by Frank Dunlop 471 perf.
1978 Platinum Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Joe Layton 33 perf.
1993 She Loves Me Criterion Center Stage Right · Revival · directed by Scott Ellis 354 perf.
1994 Beauty and the Beast Palace Theatre · Original · directed by Robert Jess Roth 5,461 perf.
1995 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Theatre not recorded · Revival 548 perf.
1998 On the Town Gershwin Theatre · Revival · directed by George C. Wolfe 69 perf.
2001 42nd Street Theatre not recorded · Revival 1,524 perf.
2001 The Producers St. James Theatre · Original 2,502 perf.
2006 Mary Poppins New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Richard Eyre 2,619 perf.
2008 The Little Mermaid Lunt-Fontanne Theatre · Original · directed by Francesca Zambello 685 perf.
2014 Aladdin New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Casey Nicholaw 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

Michelle Lookadoo 3 productions
Brad Aspel 3 productions
Tyler Maynard 2 productions
Trevor Braun 2 productions
Tia Altinay 2 productions
Robert H Fowler 2 productions
Renée Klapmeyer 2 productions
Patrick Ryan Sullivan 2 productions
Nick Corley 2 productions
Michael McCarty 2 productions
Michael Clowers 2 productions
Merwin Foard 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

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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: Boyd Gaines, Diane Fratantoni, Sally Mayes, Jonathan Freeman, Brad Kane, Lee Wilkof, Louis Zorich, Howard McGillinebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Michael Cumpsty, Christine Ebersole, Kate Levering, Michael Arnold, Mary Testa. Jonathan Freeman, Allen Fitzpatrick, Mylinda Hull, David Elser, Billy Stritch, Michael McCarty, Richard Muenzebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Sierra Boggess, Derrick Baskin, Trevor Braun, Tituss Burgess, Brian D’Addario, Jonathan Freeman, Cody Hanford, Eddie Korbich, Norm Lewis, Tyler Maynard, Sean Palmer, Sherie Rene Scottebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • This week I interviewed Jonathan Freeman on my Sirius radio show. First of all, the coolest thing is that, when he was a kid, he was obsessed with Disney villains and always wanted to be one… and he wound up originating the role of the voice of Jafar in the movie Aladdin ! And when I was a kid, I always wanted to be a Broadway star, and w…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 1 - Seth Rudetsky.txt
  • In that same scene, the nightclub would disappear and the two lonely hearts, me as Lucy Schmeeler and the elegant Jonathan Freeman, were left alone. Then she sings, he sneezes. He caught my cold. One time, in the park, a raccoon came up to us in the scene. Jonathan Freeman saw the raccoon. If I had seen the raccoon, I would have run off!…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
  • Tony Shultz Alexis Smith ... Ronnie B. Baker .. Jonathan Freeman John Hammil ... Damita Jo Freeman Robin Frean . Avery Sommers .. Stanley Kamel .. Lisa Mordentetheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (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.
  • 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.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.