Lee Roy Reams

On stage 8 productions, 35 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Meanwhile, over at Applause , Lee Roy Reams was playing Duane, a homosexual who was a grounded individual, a self-actualized man who was a good, solid employee, and a friend to Margo Channing. Reams not only didn’t win the Tony, but he was also denied a nomination. Subtlety isn’t always prized.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• LEE ROY REAMS has appeared in Sweet Charity , Lorelei , 42nd Street , Applause , and Beauty and the Beast. He played Will Parker in the Lincoln Center revival of Oklahoma! and directed the 1996 Broadway revival and international tour of Hello , Dolly!ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• LEE ROY REAMS: I got to audition for Richard Rodgers for the role of Will Parker in the 1969 Lincoln Center revival of Oklahoma! I was told not to sing a Richard Rodgers song because he didn’t like singers doing his material unless they were coached by him or his people. So I decided to sing the Leonard Bernstein number from On the Town .…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• At one time during rehearsals for the 1995 revival, Lee Roy Reams, who was the director, said, “Carol, I think you should stand in the middle of the ramp instead of on the right to talk to your dead husband.”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• LEE ROY REAMS: I wanted to try out for the lead in 42nd Street, but the casting director told my agent they wanted someone young, fresh, and new and that I should audition instead for the secondary role of Andy Lee, an older character who doesn’t have a number but does dance in the show. I didn’t want to do it, but my agent said, “Go. Do…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• LEE ROY REAMS: Before 42nd Street , Gower had done Rockabye Hamlet and all that; he went through that drug thing. Then one day, he told me, he was walking the beaches of California stoned, and suddenly he realized what he truly was: an old-fashioned song-and-dance man. And rather than try to compete with what was happening culturally at t…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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