Henry Goodman
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Henry Goodman (born April 23, 1950) is a British theatre actor. He trained at RADA in London alongside Jonathan Pryce.
He was the winner of the Olivier award for best actor in 1993 for his role in Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins and in 2000 for his role as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice directed by Trevor Nunn.
Other roles include: Wintergreen in Of Thee I Sing (London 1996 - concert staging), Billy Flynn in Chicago (London 1997), and, Buddy in Follies (London 2002). He was in the middle of some unpleasant publicity when he took over for Nathan Lane in the Broadway production of The Producers in 2001, but his interpretation of Max Bialystock met with the disfavor of the producers of the show and he was replaced by Lane's understudy Brad Oscar in the role before he could be seen by reviewers.
He is currently playing the lead role of Tevye in Lindsay Posner's 2007 revival of Joseph Stein's 'Fiddler on the Roof.'
[edit] Early Nineties Boycott
It was known in the early nineties that Goodman declared a boycott of British pop group Duran Duran. This was due to the band advertising a new range of fridge magnets made by controversial comedian Bernard Manning.
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