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Paulo Szot

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Actor b. 1969 On stage 19962022

Paulo Szot is a Brazilian operatic baritone singer and actor. He made his opera debut in 1997 and his international career has included performances with the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala di Milano, Opera de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera Australia, Liceo de Barcelona, among many others. In 2008, he made his Broadway debut as Emile De Becque, reprising the roles in 2022 and 2026, in a revival of South Pacific, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Theatre World Award. In 2012 he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for best actor in a musical, and in 2014 was nominated for t…

On stage 4 productions, 26 years

1996 Chicago Richard Rodgers Theatre · Revival · directed by Walter Bobbie 9,999 perf.
2008 South Pacific Theatre not recorded · Revival · directed by Bartlett Sher 996 perf.
2019 Hadestown Walter Kerr Theatre · Original · directed by Rachel Chavkin 1,700 perf.
2022 & Juliet Stephen Sondheim Theatre · Original · directed by Luke Sheppard

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Worked with more than once8 names

Peter Lockyer 2 productions
Michael Arnold 2 productions
Lillias White 2 productions
Lana Gordon 2 productions
Kimberly Marable 2 productions
James Monroe Iglehart 2 productions
Charity Angél Dawson 2 productions
Alfie Parker Jr 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.

In the literature6 passages

  • The first commercial revival was presented at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center on April 8, 2008, for 996 performances with Paulo Szot (De Becque), Kelli O’Hara (Nellie), Matthew Morrison (Cable), Loretta Ables Sayre (Bloody Mary), Danny Burstein (Billis), and Li Jun Li (Liat). The production included “My Girl Back Home,” whic…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast: Kelli O’Hara, Paulo Szot, Loretta Ables Sayre, Danny Burstein, Sean Cullen, Li Jun Li, Matthew Morrison, Victor W. Hawks, Luka Kainebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Another very memorable audition I remember in this building was Paulo Szot’s, for South Pacific . We felt we needed to cast Emile first, because his age would impact who our Nellie should be. There was a very small category of qualified people who could play Emile, who had the voice, acting ability, likability and gravitas. Paulo came in…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
  • I’ll never forget the closing performance of South Pacific . We had gotten Paulo Szot and Kelli O’Hara back for the last few weeks, because we were doing a television broadcast of the production. A lot of cast members returned, so the cast was virtually the same as it had been two years earlier.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
  • CAST Ensign Nellie Forbush Laura Osnes|:Emile de Becque Paulo Szot™@: Ngana Laurissa Romain; Jerome Luka Kain; Henry Helmar Augustus Cooper; Bloody Mary Loretta Ables Sayre; Liat Li Jun Li; Bloody Mary's Assistants MaryAnn Hu, Deborah Lew, Kimber Monroe; Luther Billis Danny Burstein; Stewpot Eric Anderson; Professor Matt Kaplan’: Lt. Jose…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2009-2010 Season, v. 66 (Willis).txt
  • Michael (4/13/10), Paulo Szot (4/15/10) 3. Christian Delcroix (7/7/10) 4. Skipp Sudduth 5. Jason Michael Snow (7/7/10) 6. Matt Wall (5/19/09), Todd Cerveristheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2009-2010 Season, v. 66 (Willis).txt

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