Theatre Register

Samuel E. Wright

Shows · Samuel E. Wright

ActorOn stage 19711997

On stage 8 productions, 26 years

1971 Jesus Christ Superstar Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Tom O’Horgan 711 perf.
1971 Two Gentlemen of Verona St. James Theatre · Revival · directed by Mel Shapiro 627 perf.
1972 Pippin Imperial Theatre · Revival · directed by Bob Fosse 1,944 perf.
1974 Over Here! Shubert Theatre · Revival · directed by Tom Moore 341 perf.
1983 The Tap Dance Kid Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Vivian Matalon 669 perf.
1989 Welcome to the Club Music Box · Original · directed by Peter Mark Schifter 12 perf.
1991 Mule Bone Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Schultz 68 perf.
1997 The Lion King New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Julie Taymor 10,000 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 once4 names

Sheila Gibbs 2 productions
Hattie Winston 2 productions
Ben Vereen 2 productions
Ann Reinking 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.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • 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 — 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.

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