All of these actors have made a lasting impact on Broadway—many of them earning Tony Awards for their work—but do you know what shows they made their debuts in on the Great White Way?
Audra McDonald
The Secret Garden
Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster in the company of Grease
Julie Andrews
The Boyfriend
Liza Minnelli
Flora, the Red Menace
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Chita Rivera
Can-Can Playbill - May 1953
Viola Davis
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Seven Guitars
Bernadette Peters
Andrew Eccles
The Girl in the Freudian Slip
Jessie Mueller
Monica Simoes
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Paul Kolnik
Gene Kelly
Leave It to Me!
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Monica Simoes
The Lion King Playbill - July 2016
Billy Porter
Miss Saigon
Angela Lansbury
Monica Simoes
Hotel Paradiso
Mandy Patinkin
Trelawny of the "Wells"
André De Shields
Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Warp
Carolee Carmello
City of Angels
Norm Lewis
Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Miss Saigon Playbill
Aaron Tveit
Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Hairspray
Denzel Washington
Checkmates
Judy Kuhn
Joseph Marzullo/WENN
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Rent Playbill - Opening Night
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Mail
Danny Burstein
A Little Hotel on the Side
Patti LuPone
Joseph Marzullo/WENN
The Three Sisters
Barbra Streisand
I Can Get It For You Wholesale
Vanessa Williams
Kiss of the Spider Woman Playbill - Opening Night, May 1993