Davis Gaines

Davis Gaines (born January 21, 1954, Orlando, Florida) is an American stage actor and baritone. He has performed as The Phantom in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera over 2,000 times, on Broadway, on tour, in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco. (He had previously played Raoul in the Broadway production.) He won the Bay Area Critics' Award for Best Actor. He performed the role for a Phantom segment for the Kennedy Center Honors in 1994.

Davis Gaines
Born	(1954-01-21) January 21, 1954 (age 71) Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Singer, actor
Years active	1979-present
Known for	The Phantom of the Opera

He originated the lead role of The Man in Whistle Down the Wind (1996). Gaines was also the singing voice of Chamberlain in The Swan Princess (1994). He guested in "Murder in White", a 1993 episode of Murder, She Wrote. He was also a musical guest star for Broadway on Ice, a touring ice show with live music. Gaines played the role of Anthony Hope in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in concert, alongside George Hearn as Todd, Patti LuPone as Lovett, Timothy Nolen as Turpin, and Neil Patrick Harris as Tobias. He has since reprised the role of Anthony in numerous productions. He also played the Old Confederate Soldier and Judge Roan in Parade at the Lincoln Center in 2015.

He's also known for his performances in regional productions of Les Misérables, Parade, Damn Yankees, and Hello, Dolly!. He received an Ovation Award for his performance in the role of Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes in Man of La Mancha. He was also in the original Off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins as an understudy for the roles of the Balladeer and Charles Guiteau. In 2000, he was in a concert version of The Frogs opposite Nathan Lane and Brian Stokes Mitchell at the Library of Congress.^[1]

One of his first jobs was as a costumed character at Walt Disney World theme park;^[2] as a high school student, he played Pinocchio character J. Worthington Foulfellow.^[3]

Stage credits

Sources:^[1][4]

Year	Title	Role	Location	Notes
1979	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas	Cowboy / Dogette / Aggie / Photographer / Governor's Aide	-	US National Tour
1980	Camelot	Sir Lionel's Squire / Ensemble	New York State Theatre	Broadway
1981		Sir Lionel's Squire	-	US National Tour
		Sir Sagramore's Squire	-
1982	The Death of von Richthofen as Witnessed from Earth	Member of The Flying Circus u/s R. Raymond-Barker	The Public Theater	Off-Broadway
1983	Hello, Dolly!	Cornelius Hackl	-	US National Tour
1984	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat	Joseph	Paper Mill Playhouse
			Westport Country Playhouse
1985	Guys and Dolls	Sky Masterson	Seattle Repertory Theatre
	Cabaret	Clifford Bradshaw	Darien Dinner Theatre
1986	Hello, Dolly!	Cornelius Hackl	Heinz Hall
	Camelot	Sir Lancelot du Lac	Garde Arts Center
	The New Moon	Robert Mission	New York City Opera	Alternate
	Damn Yankees	Joe Hardy	Paper Mill Playhouse
1988	Damn Yankees	Joe Hardy	Royal Alexandra Theatre
	Arsenic and Old Lace	Mortimer Brewster	Hart House Theatre
1989	Company	Robert	Birmingham Theatre
	She Loves Me	Steven Kodaly	Lillie Blake School
	Show Boat	Gaylord Ravenal	Minnesota Opera
	West Side Story	Tony	North Shore Music Theatre
1990	Carousel	Billy Bigelow
	The Phantom of the Opera	Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny	Majestic Theatre	Broadway
1990-1991	Assassins	u/s The Balladeer u/s Charles Guiteau	Playwrights Horizons	Off-Broadway
1991-1994	The Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera	-	US National Tour
1994-1996			Majestic Theatre	Broadway
1995	Pippin	Pippin
1996-1997	Whistle Down the Wind	The Man	National Theatre
1997	The Boys from Syracuse	Antipholus of Syracuse	New York City Center	Off-Broadway Encores!
1998	The Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera	-	US National Tour
1999	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Anthony Hope	Ahmanson Theatre	Concert
2000			Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
			Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center	The New York Philharmonic
	The Frogs	William Shakespeare	The Library of Congress	Concert
2001	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Anthony Hope	San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
			Ravinia Festival
2009		Sweeney Todd	Bob Carr Theater
	Parade	Old Confederate Soldier / Judge Leonard Roan	Mark Taper Forum
2010	1776	Richard Henry Lee	Carpenter Performing Arts Center
2011	Camelot	King Arthur	Wells Fargo Pavilion
2012	Man of La Mancha	Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes	Carpenter Performing Arts Center	Won an Ovation Award
	Monty Python's Spamalot	King Arthur
	Silence! The Musical	Dr. Hannibal Lecter	Hayworth Theatre
2013	Mack and Mabel	Mack	Carpenter Performing Arts Center
	I Do! I Do!	Michael	Laguna Playhouse
2014	The Music Man	Professor Harold Hill	Carpenter Performing Arts Center
	Les Misérables	Inspector Javert	Orlando Shakespeare Theater
2015	Parade	Old Confederate Soldier / Judge Leonard Roan	Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center	Concert
	Les Misérables	Inspector Javert	Carpenter Performing Arts Center
2016	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Lawrence Jameson
	Lend Me a Tenor	Tito Merelli	La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
2017	Evita	Juan Perón	Carpenter Performing Arts Center
	Newsies	Joseph Pulitzer	The Muny
2018	Parade	Hugh Dorsey	Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts
2019	Oliver!	Fagin	Carpenter Performing Arts Center
	Something Rotten!	Nostradamus
2022	The Fantasticks	El Gallo	Orlando Shakespeare Theater

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Warlock: The Armageddon	Nathan Sinclair
1994	The Swan Princess	Sir Chamberlain (singing voice)	Voice
1998	Cab to Canada	Maitre D'	TV movie
	The Swan Princess: Sing Along	Sir Chamberlain	Short Voice
2001	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert	Anthony Hope	TV movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	The Bold and the Beautiful	Stuart Maxwell	2 episodes
1993	Bodies of Evidence	Peter Marx	2 episodes
	Murder, She Wrote	Peter Drew	1 episode
1995	Guiding Light	Doctor	1 episode
1998	Chicago Hope	Rolf Cabot
2005	Charmed	Walter Nance	1 episode
2009	Desperate Housewives	Accountant

Awards and nominations

Ovation Awards

• 2012: Won the award for Lead Actor in a Musical for his role as Cervantes/Quixote in the Musical Theatre West production of Man of La Mancha^[5]