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Ruth Williamson

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Composer b. 1954 On stage 19212009

Ruth Williamson (b. 1954) is an American actress whose Broadway credits include the 2004 revival of La Cage aux Folles and the 2000 revival of The Music Man as Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn.

On stage 9 productions, 88 years

1921 Good Morning Dearie Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 347 perf.
1922 Just Because Earl Carroll Theatre · Original · directed by Oscar Eagle 46 perf.
1986 Smile Lunt-Fontanne · Original · directed by Howard Ashman 48 perf.
1992 Guys and Dolls Martin Beck Theatre · Revival · directed by Jerry Zaks 1,143 perf.
1998 Little Me Criterion Center Stage Right · Revival · directed by Rob Marshall 99 perf.
1999 Epic Proportions Helen Hayes Theatre · Original · directed by Jerry Zaks 93 perf.
2000 The Music Man Neil Simon Theatre · Revival · directed by Susan Stroman 699 perf.
2004 La Cage aux Folles Marquis Theatre · Revival · directed by Jerry Zaks 229 perf.
2009 Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Marquis Theatre · Return-Engagement · directed by Walter Bobbie 51 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

Michael Arnold 2 productions
Faith Prince 2 productions
Dale Hensley 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 literature6 passages

  • Cast: Gary Beach, Daniel Davis, Linda Balgord, Gavin Creel, Angela Gaylor, Michael Mulheren, John Shuman, Michael Benjamin Washington, Ruth Williamson, Merwin Foardebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Mia Malm Marsha Waterbury Jeff McCarthy Michael O'Gorman Richard Woods Dick Patterson Ruth Williamson Jeffrey Wilkins Laura Gardner K. C. Wilson Tommy Daggett Andrew Cassesetheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1986-87 Season, v. 43 (Willis, John).txt
  • (Mom/Mrs. Doucette), Ellia English (Aunt Martha/Bonita), Wendell Pierce (Mr. Willis), Nora Cole (Mrs. Willis), Ruth Williamson (Aunt Margaret), John Lathan (Earl Stelly/Preacher/Marcus), Jennie Moreau (Cousin Ellen/Mrs. Hosey/Mrs. Mercer), Kathleen Dennehy (Sharon/Theresa Couchette), Harry Murphy (Uncle Jim), Peter Appel (Dad/Cousin Steve…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1991-1992 season, v. 48 (Willis).txt
  • Ruth Williamson ....Bruce Adler Scott Waara .Liz Larsen Eugene Fleming : Faith Prince Burke Moses Michael McGraththeatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt
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  • Tommy Djilas.Clyde Alves +4 Marian Paroo.Rebecca Luker Mrs. Paroo.Katherine McGrath Winthrop Paroo .Michael Phelan Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn.Ruth Williamson +5 Zaneeta Shinntheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2000-01 Season, v. 57 (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.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — composer — 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.

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