Gary Beach

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Gary Beach
Born (1947-10-10) October 10, 1947 (age 64)
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Occupation Actor
Years active 1969-present
Awards Best Featured Actor in a Musical
2001 The Producers
Website
http://www.garybeach.com

Gary Beach (born October 10, 1947) is an American actor, primarily in Broadway musical theatre.

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[edit] Biography

Beach was born in Alexandria, Virginia and later went on to graduate from the North Carolina School of the Arts, the same school as Terrence Mann, his Beauty and the Beast costar.

Beach and his partner, Jeffrey Barnett, live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

[edit] Career

His television credits include both the 2009 and 2003 Kennedy Center Honors, "Recording the Producers" (a documentary for PBS), Queer as Folk, Murder, She Wrote, Cheers, Sisters, Arli$$, and Saved by the Bell. Beach also recently lent his voice to FOX's Family Guy where he played Dale, in the now infamous 'banned from television' episode, "Partial Terms of Endearment" (available on DVD).

He performed in the chorus of Les Misérables: The Complete Symphonic Recording.

In 1994, Beach created the comical role of Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, a performance that earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 2001, he originated the role of Roger DeBris in the original production of The Producers for which he won the Tony Award for Featured Actor in a Musical. In 2004, he starred as Albin in the Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles, earning him his third Tony nomination, this time for Leading Actor. Beach returned to his role as Roger De Bris in The Producers while the movie version was in release, thus becoming the first artist to play the same part on Broadway and in a film at the same time. In 2006, Beach played the role of Thénardier in the 2006 Broadway revival of Les Misérables, a role he had originated in the Los Angeles production. Beginning in March 2008, Beach assumed the lead role of King Arthur in the US national tour of Spamalot and will stay with the tour until late summer.

Other Broadway credits include Annie, Doonesbury, The Moony Shapiro Songbook, Broadway Bash, Sweet Adeline (Encores), Something's Afoot and 1776. He toured nationally with the James Kirkwood comedy Legends! starring Mary Martin and Carol Channing.

In addition to his Broadway credits, Beach is well known for his Summer stock theatre performances. For years he would return to Sacramento as a Music circus favorite. His last performances there were in the shows A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Guys and Dolls. After A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, he went into rehearsals for The Producers.[1] He has returned to Music Circus, beginning in 2009 with "Guys And Dolls," and then in 2010 he reprised his role as "King Arthur" in "Spamalot"

[edit] Awards and nominations

Awards
Nominations
  • 1994 Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Beauty and the Beast
  • 2004 Tony Award Best Actor in a Musical - La Cage Aux Folles

[edit] Stage productions

National tours

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Forum is hilarious fun". www.sacnews.net. http://www.sacnews.net/sacstage/forum.html. Retrieved 2009-12-01. [dead link]

[edit] External links
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