Bernard Dotson

On stage 7 productions, 26 years

1996	Chicago Richard Rodgers Theatre · Revival · directed by Walter Bobbie	9,999 perf.
1998	Ragtime Ford Center · Original · directed by Frank Galati Musical staging: Graciela Daniele	834 perf.
2001	Dreamgirls Ford Center For The Performing Arts · Revival · directed by Brenda Braxton	1 perf.
2002	Imaginary Friends Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Jack O'Brien	76 perf.
2002	Sweet Smell of Success Theatre unknown · Original · directed by Nicholas Hytner	109 perf.
2009	Finian’s Rainbow St James Theatre · Revival · directed by Warren Carlyle	92 perf.
2022	Paradise Square Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Original · directed by Moisés Kaufman	108 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in. That is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

John Dossett	3 productions
James Stovall	3 productions
Timothy J Alex	2 productions
Terri White	2 productions
Shaun Amyot	2 productions
Rosena M Hill	2 productions
Orfeh	2 productions
Norm Lewis	2 productions
Lillias White	2 productions
Kate Coffman Lloyd	2 productions
Kate Baldwin	2 productions
Jill Nicklaus	2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership. A long-running company puts the same forty people together every night, but it is where one would start looking. 6 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

What this page does not know

• What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
• Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
• Any biography.
• Any portrait. Most people in this catalogue don't have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
• Which of the credits above the roles on this record () apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.