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Ben Vereen

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Also known as Benjamin Augustus Vereen, Benjamin A. Vereen

American actor, dancer, and singer

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Thoth
  • Fosse
  • Black Bible Chronicles

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1946-10-10
broadway

Discography

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15,144
Total plays
74,010

Tags

BroadwayAllmusical theaterSoundtrackUSA

Ben Vereen (born October 10, 1946 in Laurinburg, North Carolina) is an American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972 and won a Tony for his appearance in Pippin in 1973. Vereen starred in the Broadway musical Wicked as the Wizard of Oz, replacing former Wizard George Hearn on May 31, 2005. He was replaced by tour Wizard David Garrison on April 4, 2006. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

    · 2015 · cited 75,958x

  2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

    · 2012 · cited 54,011x

  3. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

    · 2015 · cited 22,038x

  4. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

    · 2009 · cited 19,937x

  5. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,790x

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