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Friday Morning Man: Claybourne Elder!
Reader John Long suggested today’s Morning Man!
Don’t you think the fresh-faced, blue-eyed stage actor Claybourne Elder is adorable too?
He’s got a role in the Broadway bound musical Bonnie & Clyde in which he plays the role of Buck Barrow.
The 26-year-old goes by “Clay” and is from Springville, Utah – the youngest of eight kids!
“I popped out last, the only one with the performer gene,” he told Broadway.com a few years ago.
Although he got involved in community theater while in high school, he dropped out of college for awhile to work abroad in underdeveloped communities and spent a year in Moscow and in a fishing village in China teaching English.
He returned to college and since graduation has been a busy man appearing in productions of Curtains, Into the Woods, Cabaret and Take Flight.
Clay is clearly a star in the making judging from the reviews he’s been getting for almost every show he’s in from major publications including the New York Times.
Comments
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Tad says:
Oh my gosh I am so excited that you showed him today! He is a friend of mine and is a great guy, and extremely talented on top of that. Thanks Greg!
Tracy says:
Fantastic face
Bill Doty says:
In Kander & Ebbs’ “Cabaret,” the part of Cliff (the Michael York role in the film)is always exciting, but rarely steals the show from such powerful characters as Sally Bowles and the Emcee. Those parts are just too powerful. In John Kander’s home town – Kansas City (at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre until April 10) Claybourne Elder brings Cliff to center stage; he won an instantaneous standing ovation for that incredible voice.
Kansas City is a forceful male actor-town (Oscar winners Chris Cooper, Don Cheadle; stage and film’s classically-trained Paul Rudd – In Kansas City, Claybourne Elder IS the KC Rep.’s excellent production of “Cabaret.” He flat out steals the show!