Lawrence Clayton
Lawrence Clayton most recently appeared in the Tony Award winning revival of The Color Purple, directed by John Doyle. Other Broadway appearances include Bells Are Ringing; It Ain't Nothin but the Blues, The Civil War, Once upon a Mattress, and Dreamgirls. Off Broadway includes, Crowns at Second Stage, Saturn Returns and Romance in Hard Times at The Public Theater, and as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
He has appeared as the Tenor in Too Hot to Handel with the Baltimore and Colorado Symphonies under the direction of Marin Alsop. He also starred as Montel/Jesus in the New York Premier of Jerry Springer the Opera at Carnegie Hall with Harvey Keitel and reprised the role at the Sydney Opera House.
On the small screen Lawrence has appeared in episodes of Homeland, The Good Wife, The Big C, All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, Deadline, Law and Order: CI, and the made-for-TV movie Mary and Rhoda. He lent his voice to the Rankin-Bass animated Christmas special Santa Baby starring Vanessa Williams, Gregory Hines and Eartha Kitt.
Recordings include the Grammy-nominated cast album of The Color Purple as well as Broadway cast albums of Bells Are Ringing, Once Upon A Mattress and Adam Guettel's Myths and Hymns.
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