Theatre
In theatre, McCarthy debuted on Broadway in 1983, playing opposite Anthony Quinn in Zorba. He went on to play Bob Freelander in the ill-fated Smile, the following year. In 2001, McCarthy created the role of Officer Lockstock in the original cast of the Broadway musical Urinetown. He played the Beast in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast, and Terry in the original cast of Side Show. In 2004, McCarthy reprised his role as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast for eight weeks. He played Dubhdara in the recent musical The Pirate Queen. In 2008, 2009 and 2011, McCarthy played Billy Flynn in Chicago, the long-running Broadway revival.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: “Behold! These things are.” Yet most dramatists employ it to say: “This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.””
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious,
Even so, or with much more contempt, men’s eyes
Did scowl on gentle Richard.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn’t seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)