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Encyclopedia > Norbert Leo Butz

Norbert Leo Butz is an American stage actor. He was born into a Catholic family in St. Louis, Missouri and has 10 siblings. Butz received his MFA from The University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Professional Actor Training Program. He is best known for his performances in Broadway musicals. He appeared in the Broadway musical, Wicked with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, and is currently starring in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a musical based on the 1988 movie of the same name. He won the 2005 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award, among other awards, for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his role of 'Freddy Benson' in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, opposite John Lithgow and Joanna Gleason. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Saint Louis (pronounced in English, in French), frequently spelled St. ... State nickname: The Show Me State Official languages English Capital Jefferson City Largest city Kansas City (largest metropolitan area is Saint Louis) Governor Matt Blunt (R) Senators Kit Bond (R) Jim Talent (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 21st 69,709 mi²; 180,693 km² 1. ... University of Alabama The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA, or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ... The Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) is one of the largest Shakespeare festivals in the world. ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Look up wicked on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Idina Menzel. ... Kristin Chenoweth. ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane; it is based on the film of the same name. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane; it is based on the film of the same name. ... John Lithgow John Lithgow (pronounced lith-go) was born on October 19, 1945 in Rochester, New York. ... Joanna Gleason (born Joanne Halprin on June 2, 1950), is a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canadian-born actress, who has been a successful character actor in film, television and on stage. ...

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Notable Productions

Broadway

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Off-Broadway

The Last Five Years is a one act musical written by Jason Robert Brown and produced off-Broadway in March of 2002. ...

National Tours

Cabaret is a 1966 Broadway musical, based on John Van Drutens play I Am a Camera, based in its turn on stories by Christopher Isherwood, with book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, produced and directed by Hal Prince and starring Bert Convy...

External links

[1] A page listing several of the accomplished alumni of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's MFA program, including Butz.


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The First Official Norbert Butz Website & Fan Club! (287 words)
The Norbert fan club has been around for two years and we are very excited to finally have a new website.
Norbert has stunned thousands of people with his amazing performances as Roger Davis in the Broadway version of "Rent" and The Emcee in the first national tour of "Cabaret".
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Playbill Celebrity Buzz: PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Norbert Leo Butz (1526 words)
Butz sat down with Playbill On-Line as he closed the first show and prepared to begin work on the second.
NLB: I don't know, it sounds so cliche to say "But, whatever happens happens." When you're in a performance, you're trying not to think of that.
NLB: The first time that I saw acting that I thought "Wow, this is something kinda transcendent" or it's more than just showing off, is when I saw the films of Robert Duvall when I was a kid.
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