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Chip Zien

ActorBorn 1947On stage 1974 to 202315 productions on this page

Chip Zien
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Jerome Herbert "Chip" Zien (born March 20, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for originating the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of the musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. He appeared in all of the "Marvin Trilogy" musicals by William Finn: as Marvin in In Trousers, and as Dr. Mendel in March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland and Falsettos. In 2023, he returned to Broadway to critical acclaim in the lead role of Rabbi Josef Roman Cycowski in Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Harmony. In 1989, he starred as Otto Kringelein in Grand Hotel and in 2007, he played Mssr. Thénardier in Les Misérables, both on Broadway. He also created the role of Mr. Bunge…

On stage

15 productions, 49 years
1974
Ride the WindsBroadway Bijou Theatre. Original. Directed by Lee D. Sankowich
3 performances
1980
The SuicideBroadway Anta Playhouse. Original. Directed by Ara Fitzgerald
60 performances
1987
Into the WoodsBroadway Martin Beck Theatre. Original. Directed by James Lapine
765 performances
1989
Grand HotelBroadway Martin Beck Theatre. Revival. Directed by Tommy Tune
1,077 performances
1992
FalsettosBroadway John Golden Theatre. Original. Directed by James Lapine
486 performances
1997
Into the WoodsBroadway Broadway Theatre. Revival
2 performances
2002
The Boys from SyracuseBroadway American Airlines Theatre. Revival. Directed by Scott Ellis
73 performances
2005
Chitty Chitty Bang BangBroadway Hilton Theatre. Original. Directed by Adrian Noble
285 performances
2006
Les MiserablesBroadway Broadhurst Theatre. Revival
463 performances
2008
The Country GirlBroadway Bernard B Jacobs Theatre. Revival. Directed by Mike Nichols
97 performances
2011
The People in the PictureBroadway Studio 54. Original. Directed by Leonard Foglia
61 performances
2013
The Big KnifeBroadway American Airlines Theatre. Revival. Directed by Doug Hughes
56 performances
2015
It Shoulda Been YouBroadway Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Original. Directed by David Hyde Pierce
135 performances
2021
Caroline, or ChangeBroadway Studio 54. Revival. Directed by Chichester Festival Theatre
85 performances
2023
HarmonyBroadway Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Original. Directed by Warren Carlyle
96 performances

Worked with more than once

12 names

Also credited on

1 work

Annie

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