Kevin Gray

The Engineer (Toronto, 1st U.S. National Tour, Paper Mill)

Kevin Gray joins the first national company of Miss Saigon from the Toronto production and has recently recorded, in London, the symphonic version of the musical. He previously had spent the two years playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and on the U.S. national tour, including the Kennedy Center and the grand opening of the Broward Performing Arts Center. Before that, he played Raoul in Phantom on Broadway, and created the role of Valetin, opposite John Rubinstein, in the world premiere of the Kander-Ebb-McNally musical Kiss of the Spiderwoman, directed by Harold Prince. Kevin first came to the attention of New York audiences in the 1985 revival of Pacific Overtures, in which he received rave reveiws for his portrayal of Kayama. Subsequently, he was seen on Broadway as the Prince in Chu-Chem and off-Broadway in The Baker's Wife, The Knife and The Death of Garcia Lorca at the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Young Playwright's Festival at Playwright's Horizons. He also appeared in the pre-Broadway revival of The Night of the Iguana, with Jeanne Moreau, Eileen Brennan and Michael Moriarty, and created the title role in Billie Brown's Colorados at the Mount Gretna Playhouse. Kevin's regional theater credits inlcude Romance Language at the Mark Taper Forum, The Real Thing at the Portland Stage Company, Irma la Douce at the Goodspeed Opera House and The Tempst, Macbeth, Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well at the Boston Shakespeare Company. In 1987, he sang the lead in Heitor Villa-Lobo's Magdalena at Alice Tully Hall in New York, opposite George Rose, Judy Kaye and John Raitt. This performance was later recorded for CBS masterworks. Among his other musical credits are Henrik in A Little Night Music, Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, the Caliph in Kismet and Lun Tha in a U.S. national tour of The King and I with Stacy Keach. On television, Kevin has guest starred on "Miami Vice" and "The Equalizer" and played recurring roles on "Ryan's Hope" and "The Guiding Light." In film, he co-starred with Robby Benson in White Heat. Kevin was a receipient of the 1989 National Institute for Musical Theater Award and the 1992 Carbonell Award. This one's for the Dodster, the Colonel and the Shanghi Belle.

(1st USA National Tour, 1994)