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Category : "Brian Conley"
Brian Conley
August 19, 2009 01:46 PM
Brian Conley
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Brian Conley is one of Britain's best-known TV personalities, a regular presence on the small screen who has also spent much of his career lighting up the stage. The London-born actor had a career high in 1995 playing the title character in the Olivier Award-winning musical Jolson, a venture that kept him busy for three years between the U.K. and Canada. (Conley received his own Olivier nomination for that same show.) Since that time, he has taken over in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Palladium as Caractacus Potts and played Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Now Conley is headlining at the Shaftesbury Theatre as the slow-blooming Baltimore housewife Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, offering the growliest matron this buoyant musical has had since Tony winner Harvey Fierstein led the Broadway premiere. Broadway.com caught up with the gregarious performer about takeovers, fat suits and discovering his latent femininity. ...
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