Peter Lockyer

{{short description|American actor}} {{Infobox person |name=Peter Lockyer |birth_place=Poughkeepsie, New York |occupation=Actor, singer |spouse=Melanie Mariko Tojio }} '''Peter Lockyer''' is an American actor and tenor. He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. As a child, he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut, and went to the same high school as the actress Gretchen Mol. Lockyer has appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including ''Miss Saigon'' as Chris Scott, ''Chicago'' as Billy Flynn, ''The Phantom of the Opera'' as Ubaldo Piangi and as a Phantom/Raoul/Andre understudy, ''Les Misérables'' as Marius Pontmercy and ''La Boheme'' as a Rodolfo understudy on Broadway. He has also appeared in the 25th anniversary US tour of ''Les Misérables'' as Jean Valjean (he reprised the role from 2014 to 2016 at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End). He appeared on TV with Bette Midler in a 1993 adaption of ''Gypsy''.<ref name="boys2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107737.html|title=Broadway's Arden, Lockyer, McDermott and Panaro to Join Streisand for Upcoming Tour|accessdate=February 14, 2008|date=April 30, 2007|author=Andrew Gans|work=Playbill}}</ref>

After a break in performing, during which he earned dual master's degrees, qualifying him to teach in New York City, Lockyer returned to acting for the European tour of Barbra Streisand's ''Broadway Boys''.<ref name="boys">{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/109216.html|title=The Leading Men: Streisand's 'Boys' – Arden, Lockyer, McDermott and Panaro|accessdate=February 14, 2008|date=June 30, 2007|author=Tom Nondorf|work=Playbill}}</ref> He has also performed in ''42nd Street'' in Europe and ''Les Misérables'' in China and South Korea.<ref name="kor">{{Cite web|url=http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200207/200207100033.html |title='Les Miserables' Opens July 12 with Broadway Cast |accessdate=February 14, 2008 |date=July 10, 2002 |work=Digital Chosunibo |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040906212658/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200207/200207100033.html |archivedate=September 6, 2004 }}</ref> Recently,{{when|date=September 2018}} Lockyer returned to his native Connecticut to play the role of Tom in ''The Glass Menagerie'' at the historical Ivoryton Playhouse. Years before he played the role on tour, he played Valjean in a Hawaiian production of ''Les Misérables'', which he directed himself.

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