Not all great actors are also great singers—the Intermission team has been to enough karaoke nights to figure that out. But over its long history, Stratford has managed to attract a huge group of talented double threats: actors who are just as comfortable performing in straight drama as in musicals. (Sara Farb recently wrote about her experience going back and forth between the two.) Here are eight of those very impressive performers.
Brent Carver as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof (2000)
Photo by Michael Cooper
Brent Carver as Jaques in As You Like It (2010)
Photo by David Hou
Chilina Kennedy as Maria in West Side Story (2009)
Photo by David Hou
Chilina Kennedy as Rose of Sharon in Grapes of Wrath (2011)
Photo by David Hou
Cynthia Dale as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (2002)
Photo by Michael Cooper
Cynthia Dale as Margaret in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2005)
Photo by David Hou
Michael Therriault as Motel in Fiddler on the Roof (2000)
Photo by Michael Cooper
Michael Therriault as Henry VI in Henry VI (2002)
Photo by Michael Cooper
Lucy Peacock as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dolly! (2005)
Photo by David Hou
Lucy Peacock as Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart (2013)
Photo by David Hou
Tom Rooney as Miguel de Cervantes/Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha (2014)
Photo by Michael Cooper
Tom Rooney as Malvolio in Twelfth Night (2011)
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
Trish Lindström as Sally Bowles in Cabaret (2014)
Photo by David Hou
Trish Lindström as Alice in Alice Through The Looking Glass (2014)
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
Jonathan Goad as Harold Hill in The Music Man (2008)
Photo by David Hou
Jonathan Goad as Hamlet in Hamlet (2015)
Photo by Don Dixon
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