Barry James

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Barry James is an English theatre actor and singer.

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Theatre credits

He trained at the Guildford School of Acting. [1]

His stage roles include:

James can be heard on cast recordings of Beauty and the Beast, My Fair Lady, "She Loves Me" and two Bernard J. Taylor musicals - Nosferatu the Vampire (in which he created the role of "Renfeld"), Much Ado in which he created the role of Leonato, and Monsieur Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Concert. He is also Thénardier in the 1988 symphonic cast recording of Les Misérables.

Notes

  1. "Barry James London theatre actors and actresses". www.actorsandactresses.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 December 2006. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray/DVD and cast recording

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