Nat Chandler

Soloist for "Broadway by Request" - November 20, 2010

New York Times theatre critic D.J.R. Bruckner proclaimed, “Nat Chandler is a find...he displays rich comic gifts and he can use his fine operatic voice to express any emotion he wants to.” Roles include Sir Percival Blakeney in the title role of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Fred/Petruchio in Kiss Me Kate, distict attorney Frederick Katzmann in Anton Coppola's new American opera, Sacco and Venzetti, and Shaunard in La Boheme. He played the role of Roy Darwin in Off-Broadway’s Counsellor at Law starring John Rubinstein and toured nationally as Lancelot in Camelot starring Robert Goulet.

Mr. Chandler starred as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince and toured with Sarah Brightman in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other National Tours include Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and Lun Tha in The King and I starring Yul Brynner. Other Off-Broadway venues include the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists series, City Center Encores! production of The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (cast recording on Sony Records). Mr. Chandler created the role of Tony Toscanini in the fabled Tales of Tinseltown and has performed the roles of Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Miles Gloriosus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for which he received a Kevin Kline nomination for Best Actor in a Musical, and Carousel in which he played Billy Bigelow with Shirley Jones as Nettie Fowler.

Mr. Chandler has played leading roles in A Little Night Music, Carousel, Oklahoma! South Pacific (with Howard Keel), Cinderella, Cabaret, The Most Happy Fella, Show Boat, Candide, Trouble in Tahiti, Desert Song, The Merry Widow and Kismet in such theatres as Boston’s Huntington, Colonial, and Wang Center, St. Louis MUNY, The Fox of Atlanta, Detroit and St. Louis, New Orleans’ Saenger Theatre, Sacramento CLO, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, Meyerson Symphony Hall of Dallas, The Jackie Gleason of Miami Beach, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre, Philadelphia’s Forrest and Walnut Street Theatres.

He received two Barrymore Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical for his performances as the Phantom in the Kopit/Yestin Phantom! and Lancelot in Camelot at the Walnut Street Theatre. As a concert perfomer, he has appeared as soloist with The National Symphony at Wolftrap, the Minneapolis, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Colorado Springs, Tucson, Kansas City, Utah, Arizona, and Oregon Symphonies.

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