Lewis Cleale

Lewis Cleale

Lewis Cleale is an American theatre actor and singer. He is originally from Houlton, Maine. [ [http://bangornews.com/news/t/lifestyle.aspx?articleid=155925&zoneid=14 Houlton native brings humor to "Spamalot" on Broadway] ]

A graduate of the University of Miami's School of Music (where he has been named Distinguished Alumnus), Cleale made his Broadway debut in the 1995 Johnny Burke revue "Swinging on a Star", for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include the 1996 revival of "Once Upon a Mattress" with Sarah Jessica Parker, the ill-fated 2002 Michel Legrand musical "Amour", and the 2005 hit "Spamalot". Off-Broadway, he has appeared in "Call Me Madam" opposite Tyne Daly and "A New Brain" with Malcolm Gets and Kristin Chenoweth for Lincoln Center Theater.

In 1999-2000, Cleale portrayed Joe Gillis opposite Petula Clark's Norma Desmond in the national tour of "Sunset Boulevard", and in 2002 went on the road again as Lieut. Joe Cable in "South Pacific".

In Washington, D.C., Cleale portrayed John Adams in "1776" at Ford's Theatre and Giorgio in Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" at the Signature Theatre, for which he won the Helen Hayes Award. He has appeared in leading roles at Goodspeed Opera, George Street Playhouse, Cleveland Opera, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Beach Civic Light Opera, and The Muny in St. Louis.

Cleale's recordings include William Finn's "Infinite Joy", Adam Guettel's "Myths and Hymns", the RCA Victor anthology "Great Musicals", and the original cast albums of "Once Upon a Mattress", "Swinging on a Star", "Call Me Madam", and "Amour".

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