How you might know him:
David Garrison is a broadway and TV performer featured in productions including A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD / A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, THE VISIT, TITANIC, WICKED, and TORCH SONG TRILOGY. And may be best known as Steve Rhoades from television’s MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.
MV Connection: Previously seen in MV’s KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY, SONG OF NORWAY, and THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE.
His Peer Purpose: The Lord Chancellor is the commander of this performance, and has forbidden Strephon and Phyllis to marry. Partly because he feels that a shepherd is unsuitable for his ward, Phyllis, but also because the Lord Chancellor wishes to marry Phyllis himself. Eek.
How you might know him:
Critically acclaimed and award-winning Broadway actor, singer and concert performer, Jason Danieley has had a career that covers 30-plus years of originating roles in many new musicals including KNOXVILLE, FLOYD COLLINS, THE FULL MONTY, CURTAINS, THE VISIT, PRETTY WOMAN and SECONDHAND LIONS.
MV Connection: A dear friend of MasterVoices, Jason has performed in THE MIKADO and SONG OF NORWAY at Carnegie Hall.
His Peer Purpose: Also proclaiming himself as a suitor for our ingenue Phyllis. There’s a lot of competition for the hand of fair Phyllis, and he may find that his friendship with the other Lords is more important… #earlsbeforegirls
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In 2019, Santino Fontana won the Tony Award for “Best Actor in a Musical” for his groundbreaking performance as ‘Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels’ in TOOTSIE. His dual role also garnered him a Drama Desk and an Outer Critics Circle Award. He is widely known for lending his voice to the villainous ‘Prince Hans’ in Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated feature, FROZEN.
MV Connection: Also a regularly featured artist with MasterVoices, Santino was most recently a part of our 2023 Spring Benefit, and in last year’s sold-out performance of Sondheim’s ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.
His Peer Purpose: He too proclaims himself as a suitor for our ingenue Phyllis. There’s a lot of competition for the hand of fair Phyllis, and he may find that his friendship with the other Lords is more important… #earlsbeforegirls
How you might know him:
Recently Phillip Boykin appeared in the hit revival of THE MUSIC MAN on Broadway, he was nominated for the Tony Award, as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for his role as Crown in the Broadway revival of PORGY AND BESS (2012).
MV Connection: Last seen in another Gilbert & Sullivan MasterVoices production – THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE at NYCC in 2015 as our Pirate King!
His Peer Purpose: Private Willis is a night guard, who paces outside the Palace of Westminster and muses on political life at the beginning of Act II. He may find his own unexpected love by the end of this farce.
