Shuler Hensley

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Shuler Paul Hensley (born March 6, 1967) is an American singer and actor.

Early life

Hensley was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Hensley, the youngest of three children, grew up in Marietta, Georgia. Sam P. Hensley Jr., a former Georgia Tech football player, retired civil engineer, and former state senator. Iris Hensley (née Antley) was a ballerina and later, the Georgia Ballet's founder and Artistic Director.. Hensley got off to a good start in show business at the age of four when he appeared as Fritz in her production of The Nutcracker.

He was educated at The Westminster Schools and obtained a baseball scholarship at the University of Georgia. After attending Jessye Norman's recital and being cast as Judge Turpin in a college production of Sweeney Todd, he decided to leave university after sophomore year in order to study voice at the Manhattan School of Music, where he majored in opera and graduated in 1989. He went to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and obtained his master's degree in 1993.

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Career

Hensley's stage career began in the 1990s with performances including Pitkin in On the Town, Joe in On the Town, Joe in The Most Happy Fella, and Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing To the Forum. Hensley has appeared in the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas Pirates of Penzance and Patience, as well as in operas Carmen, Faust, La bohème, and Don Giovanni.

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Jud Fry is a teen actor at the North Shore Music Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. Shuler has appeared at the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee.

He went to Hamburg, Germany, in 1996, to play the title role in The Phantom of the Opera in German.

Jud Fry appeared in 1998 as Jud Fry in London's National Theatre Company production of Oklahoma. Hensley received glowing personal feedback as well as the Olivier Award, and the revival was a huge success. When the show moved to the West End (1999), the only American native on the cast, and then to Broadway (2002–2003), where he received a Tony, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for the same role.

Hugh Jackman has appeared on several occasions. They both appeared in the musical Oklahoma. In 1998, Hensley appeared in the film Someone Like You, and Van Helsing, as Mr. Hyde, and also in the films 'Moment Like You'. In The Greatest Showman, starring Jackman, he appeared.

Hensley appeared in Young Frankenstein's Broadway production as the Monster. He was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, as well as the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. He also appeared in the United States national tour, which also starred Roger Bart and Cory English. He appeared in the 2017 West End production for the second time.

In 2011, he portrayed American Yiddish theatre great Boris Thomashefsky in The Thomashefsky's Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theatre, a concert stage show dedicated to Thomas Hefsky and the music of Yiddish theatre, directed by their grandson Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2012, the show premiered on PBS' Great Performances.

In 2012, he appeared as a 600-pound man in the Off Broadway performance of The Whale at Playwrights Horizons.

In a concert version with the Philadelphia Orchestra under conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Hensley performed the role of the Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's Mass in April-May 2015. He appeared in a Tokyo production of Hal Prince's Prince of Broadway later this year.

Hensley appeared with Sutton Foster in The New Group's revival of Sweet Charity in fall 2016.

In his honor, the Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards are also known as the Shuler Hensley Awards. These individuals were selected to advance to the national Jimmy Awards.

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