David Hibbard
David Hibbard most recently was in the 10 time Tony Award winning production of Billy Elliot, both on Broadway and in the second national tour. His mark on ‘the Great White Way’ is completing 2,197 performances in Broadway’s CATS, in the coveted role of the Rum Tum Tugger. Other Broadway credits include Patsy, in Monty Python’s smash hit Spamalot, The Jester in the revival of Once Upon A Mattress starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and creating the role of Bobby/Michael Bennett in A Class Act.
Hibbard has also performed in the Encores! production of Can Can starring Patti Lupone, and in the world premiere of Maurey Yeston’s adaptation of Frank Loesser’s Hans Christian Anderson. Off-Broadway he was seen in Chess and Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back! Some of the regional theatres around the country at which he has performed include Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, St. Louis Muny, Nothshore Music Theatre, Kansas City Starlight, Artpark, Theatre by the Sea, and the Guthrie theatre. Concert work includes Waterbury Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony Pops tribute to Gene Kelly, conducted by Marvin Hamlisch and starring Donna Mckechnie. Hibbard’s was the narrator for the Bravo series “Page To Screen” and also performed numerous cable TV narrations on the History Channel and the Travel Channel. He holds a Music Education degree from Ohio State University, and since 1999 has devoted most of his time to his first passion, teaching vocal performance and audition technique, at CAP21 studios, once part of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, now America’s Musical Theater Conservatory & Theater Company.
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