Sentence examples for originated the title from inspiring English sources

His work includes the play "Talk," and he originated the title role in Robert Wilson and Bernice Johnson Reagon's opera, "The Temptation of St. Anthony".

"Saigon" has been performed in six other countries, and a new production will open in the Philippines next month, starring Lea Salonga, who originated the title role on Broadway.

You may remember that "Butley," Simon Gray's painfully astringent comedy about the emotional and psychic disintegration of an English literature professor, provided such a role for Alan Bates, who originated the title character on a London stage in 1971, did a reprise on Broadway in 1972 and played it again on screen in a 1974 film.

Before moving to Los Angeles five years ago, he originated the title role in Thom Pain (Based on nothing), receiving a Drama Desk nomination for his performance.

The blonde, ever-smiling Henderson was already a Broadway star when the show began, having originated the title role in the musical "Fanny".

Sarver claimed he originated the title of the film; however, the title is a decades-old colloquialism for being injured, as in "they sent him to the hurt locker".

"Angelika Kirchschlager: Handel Arias" (Sony/BMG) — The glamorous Austrian mezzo-soprano, known for her mastery of lieder and for originating the title role in Nicholas Maw's opera "Sophie's Choice," turns her melting voice to a variety of dazzling works by the doyen of Baroque opera; Laurence Cummings and the Kammerorchester Basel provide excellent support.

"A Hand Is on the Gate" moved in 1966 to the Longacre Theater from the New York Shakespeare Festival, where it originated under the title "An Evening of Poetry and Folk Music of American Negroes".

Working together in the same configuration, McClure and Carlyle originated the musical in 2010, under the title Limelight at the La Jolla Playhouse in California.

In a hearing before the Irish High Court yesterday, a lawyer for The Sun and its sister Irish title, which originated the story, said its report had been based on its understanding that Mr Walsh was being investigated by police for the assault.

In a decision that may set off yet another scramble for "Producers" tickets, the producers of that blockbuster musical confirmed yesterday that the matinee on Sunday, March 17, would be the last performance for its two above-the-title stars, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, who originated the roles of Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, the feckless producers at the story's center.