Neil Patrick Harris
Filmography -- Theater
Table:
Year

Title

Role

Notes

1997

Rent

Mark Cohen

National Tour

1998

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo Montague

Old Globe Theatre

2001

Sweeney Todd

Tobias Ragg

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra concert version

2002

Proof

Hal

Manhattan Theatre Club

2003

Cabaret

Emcee

Stephen Sondheim Theatre

2004

The Paris Letter

Young Anton / Burt Sarris

Roundabout Theatre

2004

Assassins

Lee Harvey Oswald / The Balladeer

Roundabout Theatre

2005

Tick, Tick... BOOM!

Jon

Menier Chocolate Factory

2006

All My Sons

Chris Keller

Geffen Playhouse

2006

Amadeus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Hollywood Bowl

2010

Rent

—

Directed
Hollywood Bowl

2011

Company

Robert

New York Philharmonic Concert Version

2011

A Snow White Christmas

The Magic Mirror

El Portal Theater

2014

Nothing to Hide[72]

—

Director
Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre

2014

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig

Belasco Theatre

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Rent is a rock musical with music , lyrics , and book by Jonathan Larson , loosely based on Giacomo Puccini 's opera La Bohème . It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan 's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City , under the shadow of HIV/AIDS . The musical was first seen in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1993 . This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical 's initial home following its official 1996 opening . The show 's creator , Jonathan Larson , died suddenly of an aortic dissection , believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome , the night before the Off-Broadway premiere . The musical moved to Broadway 's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29 , 1996 . On Broadway , Rent gained critical acclaim and won several awards , including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical . The Broadway production closed on September 7 , 2008 , after 12 years , making it one of the longest-running shows on Broadway . The production grossed over $ 280 million . The success of the show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions . In 2005 , it was adapted into a motion picture featuring most of the original cast members .
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families . It was among Shakespeare 's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet , is one of his most frequently performed plays . Today , the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers . Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity . The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567 . Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters , particularly Mercutio and Paris . Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595 , the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597 . The text of the first quarto version was of poor quality , however , and later editions corrected the text to conform more closely with Shakespeare 's original . Shakespeare 's use of his poetic dramatic structure ( especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension , his expansion of minor characters , and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story ) has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill . The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters , sometimes changing the form as the character develops . Romeo , for example , grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play . Romeo and Juliet has been adapted numerous times for stage , film , musical , and opera venues .
Romeo Montague is the main protagonist of William Shakespeare 's tragedy , The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet . The son of Lord Montague and his wife , Lady Montague , he secretly loves and marries Juliet , a member of the rival House of Capulet , through a priest named Friar Laurence . Forced into exile after slaying Juliet 's cousin , Tybalt , in a duel , Romeo commits suicide upon hearing falsely of Juliet 's death . The character 's origins can be traced as far back as Pyramus , who appears in Ovid 's Metamorphoses , but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio Salernitano 's Il Novellino ( 1476 ) . This story was reworked in 1524 by Luigi da Porto as Giulietta e Romeo ( published posthumously in 1531 ) . Da Porto named the character Romeo Montecchi and his storyline is near-identical to Shakespeare 's adaptation . Since no 16th-century direct English translation of Giulietta e Romeo is known , Shakespeare 's main source is thought to be Arthur Brooke 's English verse translation of a French translation of a 1554 adaptation by Matteo Bandello . Although both Salernitano and da Porto claimed that their stories had historical basis , there is little evidence that this is the case . Romeo , an only child like Juliet , is one of the most important characters of the play , and has a consistent presence throughout it . His role as an idealistic lover has led the word Romeo to become a synonym for a passionate male lover in various languages . Although often treated as such , it is not clear that Montague is a surname in the modern sense .
The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego , California . It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons . Plays are performed in three separate theatres in the complex , which is collectively called the Simon Edison Centre for the Performing Arts :
Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( often referred to simply as Sweeney Todd ) is a 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Hugh Wheeler . It is based on the 1973 play of the same name by Christopher Bond . Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway in 1979 and in the West End in 1980 . It won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best New Musical . It has since had numerous revivals as well as a film adaptation .
Tobias Toby Ragg is a fictional character who appears in various adaptations of the story Sweeney Todd . In the penny dreadful The String of Pearls , Tobias Ragg is the apprentice of Sweeney Todd - a barber who murders his customers . Sweeney Todd has him committed to a lunatic asylum after Tobias finds proof of Todd 's guilt and decides to contact the police . He eventually escapes , is involved in Todd 's arrest , and as the story ends goes into the service of Johanna 's husband-to-be Mark Ingestrie . Tobias Ragg was also the young apprentice of Todd in the 1936 film version of Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street . In the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , Toby is the apprentice of Signor Adolfo Pirelli , a barber who was once an apprentice of Todd . Pirelli pretends to be Italian , and sells some fake potions for hair , made of piss and ink . Toby is taken in by Mrs. Lovett after Todd kills Pirelli , who threatened to blackmail him . Toby becomes deeply attached to Mrs. Lovett , thinking of her as a surrogate mother . However , when he discovers that Todd has been killing customers for Mrs. Lovett to bake into meat pies , he goes insane with horror and shock . After seeing Todd kill Mrs. Lovett , a vengeful Toby emerges from the sewers , where he was hiding , and slashes Todd 's throat with his own razor . In the stage musical , Toby is portrayed as a mentally handicapped adult ; Ken Jennings , who originated the Broadway role , was 31 on opening night , and Neil Patrick Harris was 27 .
Proof is a 2000 play by the American playwright David Auburn . Proof was developed at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick , New Jersey , during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays . The play premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000 . The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play .
Manhattan Theatre Club ( MTC ) is a theatre company located in New York City , affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres . Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove , Manhattan Theatre Club has grown since its founding in 1970 from an Off-Off Broadway showcase into one of the country 's most acclaimed theatre organizations . MTC 's many awards include 19 Tony Awards , six Pulitzer Prizes , 48 Obie Awards and 32 Drama Desk Awards , as well as numerous Drama Critics Circle , Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards . MTC has won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Achievement , a Drama Desk for Outstanding Excellence , and a Theatre World for Outstanding Achievement . MTC produces plays and musicals on and off-Broadway .
Cabaret is a 1966 musical with music by John Kander , lyrics by Fred Ebb , and book by Joe Masteroff , based on John Van Druten 's 1951 play I Am a Camera , which was adapted from the short novel Goodbye to Berlin ( 1939 ) by Christopher Isherwood . Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power , it focuses on the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub , and revolves around American writer Cliff Bradshaw and his relationship with English cabaret performer Sally Bowles . A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz , a Jewish fruit vendor . Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub . The club serves as a metaphor for ominous political developments in late Weimar Germany . The 1966 original Broadway production became a hit , inspiring numerous subsequent productions in London and New York , as well as the 1972 film of the same name .
Stephen Sondheim Theatre , formerly Henry Miller 's Theatre , is a Broadway theatre operated by the Roundabout Theatre Company . It 's located at 124 West 43rd Street , between Broadway and 6th Avenue , in Manhattan 's Theater District .
The Roundabout Theatre Company is a leading non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan , New York City , affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres .
Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman , based on an original concept by Charles Gilbert Jr . Using the framing device of an all-American , yet sinister , carnival game , the semi-revue portrays a group of historical figures who attempted ( successfully or not ) to assassinate Presidents of the United States , and explores what their presence in American history says about the ideals of their country . The score is written to reflect both popular music of the various depicted eras and a broader tradition of patriotic American music . The musical opened Off-Broadway in 1990 , to many mixed and negative reviews , and ran for 73 performances , or two months ; in 2004 , the show was produced on Broadway to highly favorable notices , and won five Tony Awards , including Best Revival of a Musical .
Lee Harvey Oswald ( October 18 , 1939 - November 24 , 1963 ) was an American Marxist and former U.S. Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22 , 1963 . Oswald was honorably released from active duty in the Marine Corps into the reserve and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959 . He lived in Minsk until June 1962 , when he returned to the United States with his Russian wife , Marina , and eventually settled in Dallas . Five government investigations [ n 1 ] concluded that Oswald shot and killed Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas . About 45 minutes after assassinating Kennedy , Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on a local street . He then slipped into a movie theater , where he was arrested for Tippit 's murder . Oswald was eventually charged with the assassination of Kennedy ; he denied the accusations and stated that he was a patsy . Two days later , Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters . In September 1964 , the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone when he assassinated Kennedy by firing three shots from the Texas School Book Depository . This conclusion , though controversial , was supported by previous investigations from the FBI , the Secret Service , and the Dallas Police Department . Despite forensic , ballistic , and eyewitness evidence supporting the official findings , public opinion polls have shown that most Americans do not believe the official version of the events . The assassination has spawned numerous conspiracy theories .
Tick , Tick . Boom ! ( styled as tick , tick . BOOM ! ) is a musical written by American composer Jonathan Larson , who won a Pulitzer and three Tony Awards for his musical Rent . Tick , Tick . Boom ! tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon , who lives in New York City in 1990 . Jon is worried he has made the wrong career choice to be part of the performing arts . The story is autobiographical , as stated by Larson 's father in the liner notes of the cast recording - Larson had been trying to establish himself in theater since the early 1980s . Larson began to perform the piece as a solo work in 1990 . After his death in 1996 , it was revised and revamped by playwright David Auburn as a three-actor piece and was premiered Off-Broadway in 2001 .
The Menier Chocolate Factory is a 180-seat off-West End theatre , which comprises a restaurant , bar and rehearsal rooms . It is located in a former 1870s Menier Chocolate Company factory in Southwark Street , a major street in the London Borough of Southwark , central south London , England , some 2.5 km from the theatrical West End . The theatre stages plays and musicals , live music and stand-up comedy . According to the Evening Standard , it is one of the most dynamic fringe venues in London .
All My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller . It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29 , 1947 , closed on November 8 , 1949 , and ran for 328 performances . It was directed by Elia Kazan ( to whom it is dedicated ) , produced by Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman , and won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award . It starred Ed Begley , Beth Merrill , Arthur Kennedy , and Karl Malden and won both the Tony Award for Best Author and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play . The play was adapted for films in 1948 and 1987 .
The Geffen Playhouse ( or the Geffen ) is a not-for-profit theater company founded by Gilbert Cates in 1995 . It produced in two venues , both owned by University of California Los Angeles . The Playhouse is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles , California . It was named for donor David Geffen . The current executive director is Gil Cates Jr .
Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri , first performed in 1979 . It was inspired by Alexander Pushkin 's short 1830 play Mozart and Salieri , which Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov used in 1897 as the libretto for an opera of the same name . The play makes significant use of the music of Mozart , Salieri , and other composers of the period . The premieres of Mozart 's operas The Abduction from the Seraglio , The Marriage of Figaro , Don Giovanni , and The Magic Flute are the settings for key scenes . It was presented successfully at the Royal National Theatre , London in 1979 , then moved to Her Majesty 's Theatre in the West End followed by a Broadway production . It won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play , and Shaffer adapted it for the 1984 film of the same name .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [ a ] ( 27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791 ) , baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , [ b ] was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period . Born in Salzburg , Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood . Already competent on keyboard and violin , he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty . At 17 , Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position . While visiting Vienna in 1781 , he was dismissed from his Salzburg position . He chose to stay in the capital , where he achieved fame but little financial security . During his final years in Vienna , he composed many of his best-known symphonies , concertos , and operas , and portions of the Requiem , which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35 . The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized . He composed more than 600 works , many of which are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic , concertante , chamber , operatic , and choral music . He is among the greatest and most enduringly popular of classical composers , and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music . Ludwig van Beethoven composed his early works in the shadow of Mozart , and Joseph Haydn wrote : posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years .
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles , California . It was named one of the 10 best live music venues in America by Rolling Stone magazine in 2018 . The Hollywood Bowl is known for its band shell , a distinctive set of concentric arches that graced the site from 1929 through 2003 , before being replaced with a larger one beginning in the 2004 season . The shell is set against the backdrop of the Hollywood Hills and the famous Hollywood Sign to the northeast . The bowl refers to the shape of the concave hillside the amphitheater is carved into . The Bowl is owned by the County of Los Angeles and is the home of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra , the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic , and the host venue to hundreds of musical events each year . [ citation needed ] It is located at 2301 North Highland Avenue , west of the ( former ) French Village , north of Hollywood Boulevard and the Hollywood/Highland subway station , and south of Route 101 .
Company is a 1970 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth . The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen Tony Awards and won six . Originally titled Threes , its plot revolves around Robert ( a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship , let alone marriage ) , the five married couples who are his best friends , and his three girlfriends . Unlike most book musicals , which follow a clearly delineated plot , Company is a concept musical composed of short vignettes , presented in no particular chronological order , linked by a celebration for Robert 's 35th birthday . Company was among the first musicals to deal with adult themes and relationships . As Sondheim puts it , Broadway theater has been for many years supported by upper-middle-class people with upper-middle-class problems . These people really want to escape that world when they go to the theatre , and then here we are with Company talking about how we 're going to bring it right back in their faces .
Nothing to Hide is a theatrical magic show created and performed by Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães . The show , written by DelGaudio , with magic choreography by Helder Guimarães and directed by Neil Patrick Harris , debuted at The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles on November 27 , 2012 and opened in New York City , off-Broadway , at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center on October 23 , 2013 .
Signature Theatre Company was founded in 1991 by James Houghton and is now led by Artistic Director Paige Evans and Executive Director Harold Wolpert . Signature has presented entire seasons of the work of Edward Albee , Lee Blessing , David Henry Hwang , Horton Foote , María Irene Fornés , Athol Fugard , John Guare , Bill Irwin , Adrienne Kennedy , Romulus Linney , Charles Mee , Arthur Miller , Sam Shepard , Paula Vogel , August Wilson , Lanford Wilson , A. R. Gurney , Naomi Wallace and a season celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company . In October 2008 , Signature announced the creation of the Pershing Square Signature Center which opened in 2012 and was designed by Frank Gehry Architects . In its new home , Signature continues its Residency One Program , celebrating a single playwright with multiple productions over the course of a year , and Legacy Program , which brings those playwrights back for additional productions . Signature also introduced Residency Five , a program that will feature early- and mid-career playwrights and guarantee them three full productions over the course of a five-year residency . Signature , its productions and its resident writers have been recognized with a Pulitzer Prize , a 2014 Regional Theatre Tony Award , eleven Lucille Lortel Awards , fifteen Obie Awards , five Drama Desk Awards , and thirty-two AUDELCO Awards . The National Theatre Conference recognized the company as the 2003 Outstanding National Theatre of the Year .
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell . The musical follows Hedwig Schmidt , a genderqueer East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band . The story draws on Mitchell 's life as the child of a U.S. Army Major General who once commanded the U.S. sector of occupied West Berlin . The character of Hedwig was inspired by a German divorced U.S. Army wife who was Mitchell 's family babysitter and moonlighted as a prostitute at her trailer park home in Junction City , Kansas . The music is steeped in the androgynous 1970s glam rock style of David Bowie ( who co-produced the Los Angeles production of the show ) , as well as the work of John Lennon and early punk performers Lou Reed and Iggy Pop . The musical opened Off-Broadway in 1998 , and won the Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical . The production ran for two years , and was remounted with various casts by the original creative team in other US cities . In 2000 , the musical had a West End production , and it has been produced throughout the world in hundreds of stage productions . In 2014 , the show saw its first Broadway incarnation , opening that April at the Belasco Theatre and winning the year 's Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical . The production closed on September 13 , 2015 . A national tour of the show began at San Francisco 's Golden Gate Theatre in October 2016 before closing at the Kennedy Center in July 2017 .
The Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theater which opened in 1907 at 111 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan , New York City . Originally known as the Stuyvesant Theatre , it was designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco . The interior featured Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels , rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artist Everett Shinn , and a ten-room duplex penthouse apartment that Belasco utilized as combination living quarters/office space .