| Subsequently, he was chosen by Hal Prince and Lloyd Webber to play the leading role in the world premiere of Whistle Down the Wind in Washington, D.C. Other Broadway and national tour credits include Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, Camelot with Richard Burton and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Alexis Smith. Gaines’ Off-Broadway appearances include Des McAnuff’s The Death of Von Richthofen as Witnessed From Earth, the Maury Yeston/Larry Gelbart musical One Two Three Four Five, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, She Loves Me and Forbidden Broadway. He made his New York City Opera debut in The New Moon and appeared in New York in concert versions of Sitting Pretty, The Cat and the Fiddle, Pippin and the Encores production of The Boys From Syracuse. He appeared in Damn Yankees as Joe Hardy directed by the legendary George Abbott, in Arsenic and Old Lace as Mortimer Brewster opposite Kate Reid, in The Rink with Lainie Kazan and in Two Into One with Tony Randall. Gaines played the sailor, Anthony Hope, in the 20th anniversary concert productions of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd in Los Angeles, London, New York, San Francisco and at Ravinia Festival. |
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| Film work includes a featured role in Warlock: The Armageddon with Julian Sands and television credits include Chicago Hope, Veronica’s Closet, Bodies of Evidence and Murder, She Wrote. He appeared in three PBS Great Performances broadcasts (the Emmy Award-winning Sweeney Todd with the San Francisco Symphony, Broadway Originals with the Boston Pops and Jerry Herman’s Broadway at the Bowl), as well as the televised specials of the 1994 Kennedy Center Honors and the opening ceremony of the 1998 Goodwill Games. Additionally, Gaines has sung for five U.S. Presidents and with every major symphony orchestra in North America, including the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. He has also performed in cabaret at New York’s Rainbow and Stars, Hollywood’s Cinegrill and San Francisco’s Plush Room. His voice can be heard on 30 cast recordings and compilation albums, as well as two solo CDs on LAP Records, Against the Tide and All My Tomorrows: Songs of Sammy Cahn. For more information, visit www.davisgaines.com. |
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DAVIS
GAINES |
| FILM / TELEVISION |
| CHICAGO
HOPE (Christine Lahti) CBS |
Guest Star |
| VERONICA’S
CLOSET (Kirstie Alley) NBC |
Guest Star |
| CAB
TO CANADA (Maureen O’Hara) CBS MOTW |
Guest Star |
| MURDER,
SHE WROTE (Angela Lansbury) CBS |
Guest Star |
| BODIES
OF EVIDENCE (George Clooney) Lorimar/ CBS |
Guest Star |
| WARLOCK:
THE ARMAGEDDON (Julian Sands) Tapestry/Trimark Pictures |
Featured |
| GUIDING
LIGHT CBS |
Guest Star |
| THE
BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL CBS |
Recurring |
| ANOTHER
WORLD NBC |
Recurring |
| AS
THE WORLD TURNS CBS |
Recurring |
| THEATRE |
| SCROOGE Starbright Theatre, Las Vegas |
Scrooge |
| A CONNECTICUT YANKEE 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco |
The Yankee |
| SWEENEY
TODD (George Hearn, Patti LuPone) Ravinia Festival, Chicago Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Lincoln Center, New York |
Anthony Hope |
| SWEENEY
TODD (Len Cariou, Judy Kaye) Royal Festival Hall, London |
Anthony Hope |
| SWEENEY
TODD (Kelsey Grammer,Christine Baranski)) Reprise! Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles |
Anthony Hope |
| THE
BOYS FROM SYRACUSE Encores!City Center, New York |
Antipholus of Syracuse |
| WHISTLE
DOWN THE WIND (Hal Prince/Andrew Lloyd Webber) National Theatre, Wash., DC |
The Man |
| THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Hal Prince/Andrew Lloyd Webber) Broadway, Los Angeles, San Francisco |
The Phantom |
| THE
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Hal Prince/Andrew Lloyd Webber) Majestic Theatre, New York |
Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny |
| ARSENIC
AND OLD LACE (Kate Reid; Henry Kaplan, Dir.) Hart House Theatre, Toronto |
Mortimer |
| TWO
INTO ONE (Tony Randall; Ray Cooney, Dir.) Paper Mill Playhouse |
Edward Barstow |
| HELLO,
DOLLY! (Carol Channing) National Company |
Cornelius Hackl |
| CAMELOT
(Richard Burton) New York State Theatre |
Squire of Sagramore |
| THE
BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS (Alexis Smith) First National Tour |
Aggie |
| THE
NEW MOON New York City Opera |
Robert Mission |
| ONE
TWO THREE FOUR FIVE (Maury Yeston/Larry Gelbart) Manhattan Theatre Club |
Avi |
| THE
DEATH OF VON RICHTHOFEN (Des McAnuff, Dir.) NY Shakespeare Festival |
Maj. Barker/Circus |
| GUYS
AND DOLLS (Faith Prince) Seattle Repertory Theatre |
Sky Masterson |
| COMPANY
(Larry Carpenter, Dir.) Huntington Theatre, Boston |
Bobby |
| SITTING
PRETTY (John McGlinn, Conductor) Carnegie Hall |
Bill |
| SHE
LOVES ME (Jonathan Tunick, Conductor) Opera Ensemble of New York |
Kodaly |
| THE
CAT AND THE FIDDLE (John McGlinn, Conductor) Carnegie Hall |
Victor Florescu |
| LA
VIE PARISIENNE (Ted Mann, Director) Circle in the Square |
Gardefeu |
| FORBIDDEN
BROADWAY Palsson's Supper Club, NYC |
Tommy/Yul/Harvey/Cat |
| JUBILEE New Amsterdam Co., NYC |
Mowgli |
| DAMN
YANKEES (George Abbott, Dir.) Paper Mill Playhouse |
Joe Hardy |
| THE
MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (Rob Marshall, Dir.) Pittsburgh Playhouse |
John Jasper |
| CAROUSEL
(Jack Allison, Dir.) North Shore Music Theatre |
Billy Bigelow |
| SHOWBOAT
(Dale Johnson/John DeMain, conductors) Minnesota Opera/Opera Omaha |
Ravenal |
| SIDE
BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM Winter Garden, Toronto |
Male Lead |
| WEST
SIDE STORY (Jack Allison, Director) North Shore Music Theatre |
Tony |
| PEG
O' MY HEART (Jan Miner) American Stage Festival |
Jerry Adair |
| THE
RINK (Lainie Kazan) Coconut Grove Playhouse |
Dino Antonelli |
| JOSEPH
AND THE AMAZING...DREAMCOAT (Tony Tanner, Director) Paper Mill/Westport Playhouse |
Joseph |
| EDUCATION |
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FLORIDA STATE
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BA, Theater, Phi Beta Kappa BA, Art History For information on the Davis Gaines Endowed Scholarship in Music Theatre, click FSU School of Theatre. |
ACTING:
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Rod Menzies, Los Angeles Larry Moss, Los Angeles Carol Rosenfeld, New York | Tony McDowell, New York |
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SETON HALL | Honorary Doctorate of Music |
| For Representation Contacts And Booking Information: | Mailing Address: |
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Davis Gaines
c/o LAP Productions 10061 Riverside Drive Suite 254 Toluca Lake, CA 91602 |
