Theatre Register

Jose Llana

Shows · Jose Llana

Actor b. 1976 On stage 19962023

Jose Llana (born 5 May 1976) is a Filipino-American singer and actor best known for originating roles in the Broadway musicals The King and I (1996), Flower Drum Song (2002), Here Lies Love (2023), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005), the last for which he won the 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

On stage 7 productions, 27 years

1996 Rent Nederlander Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Greif 5,123 perf.
1997 Street Corner Symphony Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Original 79 perf.
2002 Flower Drum Song Virginia Theatre · Revival · directed by Robert Longbottom 169 perf.
2005 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Theatre not recorded · Original · directed by James Lapine
2011 Wonderland Theatre not recorded · Revival · directed by Gregory Boyd 33 perf.
2015 The King and I Theatre not recorded · Revival · directed by Bartlett Sher 538 perf.
2023 Here Lies Love Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Alex Timbers 148 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

Yuka Takara 2 productions
Lea Salonga 2 productions
Lainie Sakakura 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. 2 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

Flower Drum Song (2002 Revival)

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 literature5 passages

  • Cast: Donna Murphy, Lou Diamond Phillips, Randall Duk Kim, Taewon Kim, Joohee Choi, Jose Llana, John Curless, Guy Paul, Ryan Hopkins, John Changebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Lea Salonga, Alvin Ing, Sandra Allen, Jose Llana, Jodi Long, Randall Duk Kim, Hoon Lee, Allen Liu, David Chaseebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast: Derrick Baskin, Deborah S. Craig, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Dan Fogler, Lisa Howard, Celia Keenan-Bogler, Jose Llana, Jay Reiss, Sarah Saltzbergebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast Mei-Li Lea Salonga Wang Randall Duk Kim Chin Alvin Ing Ta Jose Llana Harvard Allen Liu Linda Low Sandra Allen Madame Liang Jodi Long Chao Hoon Lee Ensemble: Rich Ceraulo, Eric Chan, Marcus Choi, Ma-Anne Dionisio, Emily Hsu, Telly Leung, J. Elaine Marcos, Daniel May, Marc Oka, Lainie Sakakura, Yuka Takara, Kim Varhola, Ericka Yangtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2002-03 Season, v. 59 (Willis).txt
  • Understudies: Leah Salonga (Ma-Anne Dionisio, Yuka Takara); Alvin Ing (Eric Chan); Jose Llana (Rich Ceraulo, Hoon Lee, Telly Leung); Allen Liu (Marc Oka); Low Sandra Allen (Emily Hsu); Liang Jodi Long (Kim Varhola);theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2002-03 Season, v. 59 (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.