Bill Nolte is a singer and Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 actor. He was raised in Genoa, Ohio

Genoa, Ohio

Genoa is a village in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,230 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Genoa is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land....

 and attended Genoa Area High School

Genoa Area High School

Genoa Area High School is a public high school in Genoa, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Genoa Area Local School District. Their nickname is the Comets. Other towns included in the district are Curtice, Clay Center, Martin, and Williston....

, graduating in 1971. He graduated from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1976, with a degree in Opera and Musical Theater.

Theatre credits

His first role came in 1985, when he played Old Deuteronomy

Old Deuteronomy

Old Deuteronomy is a character in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and its musical adaptation, Cats.In Eliot's original poem, Old Deuteronomy is described as an ancient, wise cat who has "lived many lives in succession" and is respected by the other cats and humans in his...

 in the Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

 musical Cats

Cats (musical)

Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...

. Subseqeuently, he's appeared in musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

 (1993-1994) and 1776

1776 (musical)

1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. The story is based on the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence...

 (1997-1998) as well as the original album for Jekyll & Hyde

Jekyll & Hyde (musical)

Jekyll & Hyde is a musical based on the novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn. The music is by Wildhorn and the lyrics and book are by Leslie Bricusse.The musical ran on Broadway for 1,543...

 alongside Anthony Warlow

Anthony Warlow

Anthony Warlow is an Australian opera and musical theatre performer, noted for his character acting and considerable vocal range ....

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Beginning in 2005, he performed the role of Franz Liebkind in the Broadway musical adaptation of The Producers

The Producers (musical)

The Producers is a musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film of the same name, with lyrics written by Brooks and music composed by Brooks and arranged by Glen Kelly and Doug Besterman. As in the film, the story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich...

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Nolte played Tabarro in the 2010 Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles.

Awards

• 1993 Gypsy Robe for playing Issachar in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...
  
  " (1993-1994)
• 2000 Gypsy Robe for playing Richard Mason in "Jane Eyre
  Jane Eyre
  Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York...
  
  " (2000-2001)

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