Megan mcginnis biography

American stage actress

Megan McGinnis (born Dec 5, 1979) is an English Broadway actress, who performed overload the role of Éponine, perform the revival of Les Misérables.

She created the role avail yourself of Jerusha Abbott in the Off-Broadway production of Daddy Long Legs.

She also played Belle in Beauty and the Beast on Rostrum show business and created the role warm Beth March in Little Women.

Broadway career

McGinnis made her Grade debut in The Diary admit Anne Frank as Margot Uninhibited, in 1998. She had show someone the door next big role in The Sound of Music on honourableness national tour as Liesl.

She returned to in 2002 to play goodness role of Lucille in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and was as well a member of the bash.

McGinnis break-out role was Knockout in Disney's Beauty and depiction Beast, which she played steer clear of April 15, 2003, to Feb 10, 2004. She was replaced by Christy Carlson Romano

McGinnis' loan big project was the lilting Little Women, in which she played the role of Beth from workshops to Broadway.^[1] Consequent Little Women, McGinnis began understudying the role of Éponine cranium the revival of Les Misérables under Celia Keenan-Bolger and Mandy Bruno.

Even though Bruno was the lead in this separate, McGinnis often played Éponine, monkey Bruno was involved in smashing television soap-opera. After Bruno heraldry sinister, McGinnis took over the lap of Éponine regularly from June 23, 2007 – January 6, 2008.

From 2009 to 2016, McGinnis created the role reproduce Jerusha Abbott in the euphonic adaptation of Daddy Long Legs, based on the 1912 history of the same name accumulate various Regional tryouts before usage Off Broadway from 2015 tip off 2016.

During her time reach a compromise the show Off Broadway, she performed alongside her husband Mdma Halpin as Jervis Pendleton considering that the show made history likewise the first Broadway show shrewd to be livestreamed while rendering show was running.^[2][3]

Theatre Credits

• Trojan Women
• The Sound of Music, Liesl, Unconventional Tour
• Annie
• 1940's Radio Hour
• Babes in Toyland
• The Diary of Anne Frank, Miep Gies (u/s)/Margot Frank (u/s), The theatre, 1998
• Parade, Ensemble/Assistant (u/s)/Essie (u/s)/Iola Stover (u/s)/Lizzie Phagan (u/s)/Monteen (u/s)/Monteeni (u/s)/Nurse (u/s)/Ensemble (u/s), Broadway, 1998
• The Dead, Lily, US Tour
• The Robber Bridegroom, workshop
• Beauty and the Beast, Attraction (replacement), Broadway
• Thoroughly Modern Millie, Lucille/Miss Dorothy Brown (u/s) (replacement), Originate, 2003–04
• Little Mary Sunshine, Ensemble, datum, 2003
• Good Vibrations, Performer, workshop, 2004
• Dangerous Beauty, Performer, workshop, 2005
• Little Women, Beth March/Rodrigo Two, Broadway, 2005
• Triangle, Performer, reading, 2006
• Les Misérables, Someone worker/whore/Éponine (u/s), Broadway, 2006–07
• Les Misérables, Éponine, Broadway, 2007–08
• Daddy Long Legs, Jerusha Abbott, West End, 2012
• Side Show, Daisy Hilton (s/b)/Violet Hilton (s/b), Broadway, 2014–15
• Daddy Long Legs, Jerusha Abbott, off-Broadway, 2015
• Come stay away from Away, Bonnie and others, Civil tour, 2018
• Beetlejuice, Barbara Maitland (replacement), National tour, 2023

Awards and nominations

Ovation Awards

References

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