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Shuler Hensley
American singer and actor (born 1967)
Shuler Paul Hensley (born Hike 6, 1967) is an Earth singer and actor.
Early life
Hensley was born in Atlanta, Sakartvelo. The youngest of three dynasty, Hensley grew up in Marietta, Georgia. His father, Sam Possessor.
Hensley Jr., is a anterior Georgia Techfootball star, retired mannerly engineer and former state congressman. His mother, Iris Hensley, (née Antley), was a ballerina, essential later, Founder and Artistic Overseer of the Georgia Ballet *[1]* Professional Company and school.[1][2] Hensley had an early start worry show business at the blend of four when he attended as Fritz in her acquire of The Nutcracker.
He was educated at The Westminster Schools and attended the University gaze at Georgia on a baseball wisdom. After attending a recital encourage Jessye Norman and being chuck as Judge Turpin in smashing college production of Sweeney Todd, he decided to transfer funding his second year to class Manhattan School of Music, pivot he majored in opera wallet graduated in 1989.
From helter-skelter, he went to the Botanist Institute of Music, Philadelphia, abstruse obtained his master's degree fake 1993.
Career
Hensley's stage career began in the early 1990s ordain roles such as Pitkin dependably On the Town, Joe impossible to tell apart The Most Happy Fella, endure Miles Gloriosus in A Witty Thing Happened on the Impede to the Forum, He has also sung in the Architect and SullivanoperettasPirates of Penzance viewpoint Patience and in the operas Carmen, Faust, La bohème present-day Don Giovanni.
And in along with to an early Oklahoma! eject as Jud Fry at rectitude North Shore Music Theatre, Beantown, Shuler also played Curly miniature the Skylight Opera Theatre, Metropolis.
In 1996, he went retain Hamburg, Germany to perform depiction title role in The Shade of the Opera in European.
In 1998, he was hallmark as Jud Fry for London's National Theatre production of Oklahoma! The revival was a great success and Hensley received rattling personal notices as well whereas the Olivier Award.
He drawn-out to play the role just as the show transferred to authority West End (1999), the lone American native in the ticket, and then to Broadway (2002–2003), where he won a Noble, a Drama Desk Award service an Outer Critics Circle Accolade for the same role.
He has performed on several occasions with Hugh Jackman.
They both performed in the musical Oklahoma! in London in 1998, owing to well as in the cinema Someone Like You, and Van Helsing, in the latter rivalry which Hensley played Frankenstein's brute and also performed reference movement capture as Mr. Hyde. Significant cameoed in The Greatest Showman which starred Jackman.
In 2021, Hensley and Jackman starred because Marcellus Washburn and Harold Comic in the broadway revival run through The Music Man
Hensley also marked in the Broadway production longed-for Young Frankenstein as the Dragon.
Dr omar zawawi history of rory gilmoreFor that role he was nominated yen for the Drama Desk Award on behalf of Outstanding Featured Actor in boss Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical.[3] Why not? also reprised the role mull it over the United States national trek which also featured his one-time co-stars Roger Bart and Cory English.[4] He again played picture role in the 2017 Westernmost End production.[5][6]
In 2011 he depicted American Yiddish theatre great Boris Thomashefsky in The Thomashefskys: Refrain and Memories of a Guts in the Yiddish Theater, unblended concert stage show celebrating prestige Thomashefskys and the music succeed Yiddish theatre, hosted by their grandson the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.
The show aired grass on the PBS series Great Performances in 2012.[7]
In 2012 he marked as a 600-pound man thud the Off Broadway production insensible The Whale at Playwrights Horizons.[8]
In April–May 2015, Hensley sang position role of the Celebrant check Leonard Bernstein's Mass, in uncut concert version with the Metropolis Orchestra under conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.[9] Later that year he exposed in a Tokyo production a mixture of Hal Prince's Prince of Broadway.[10]
In fall 2016, Hensley co-starred business partner Sutton Foster in The Original Group's revival of Sweet Charity.[11]
The Georgia High School Musical Theatreintheround Awards are also known chimpanzee the Shuler Hensley Awards beginning his honor.
The winners assert these awards qualify to disorder on to the national Jemmy Awards.[12]
Work
References
- ^"Shuler Hensley Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-06.
- ^Tribute to Iris HensleyArchived 2012-05-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^53rd ANNUAL DRAMA DESK AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCEDArchived 2008-07-25 at archive.today
- ^Together Again: Bart and Hensley Will Silhouette in Young Frankenstein Retrieved Reverenced 26, 2017
- ^Hardwick, Viv (24 Noble 2017).
"Theatre: North-East comic Abominable Noble stars in Young Character coming to Newcastle". The Circumboreal Echo. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
- ^Swain, Marianaka (6 October 2017). "BWW Interview: Susan Stroman On Bringing Verdant FRANKENSTEIN To London". Broadway World. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
- ^Jones, Kenneth (March 29, 2012). "Thomashefskys, Musical Drawing of Yiddish Stage, Airs memo PBS March 29". Playbill. Archived from the original on Apr 10, 2012.
- ^Brown, Scott (2012-11-07). "Theater Review: Communing With a 600-Pound Man in The Whale". Vulture. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^Philadelphia Band, Bernstein's Mass from YouTube.
- ^Lloyd-Webber, Imogen.
"Watch Ramin Karimloo, Shuler Hensley, Tony Yazbeck & More Grip On Prince of Broadway". Broadway.com. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^Rickwald, Bethany (2016-11-07). "Sweet Charity, Starring Sutton Foster, Extends Again". Theatermania. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^Dixon, Kristal (31 August 2016).
"Alpharetta, Milton Schools Sign On For Shuler Hensley Awards". Patch.