Leo Burmester Dies at 63

Leo Burmester, a Broadway veteran who was most recently seen by audiences as Hucklebee in the Off-Broadway revival of The Fantasticks, succumed to leukemia yesterday, Thursday, June 28, 2007. Burmester was 63  years old when he died.

A talented performer who hailed from Louisville, Kentucky, Burmester appeared on Broadway in many shows including “Urban Cowboy,” “Thou Shalt Not,” “The Civil War,” “Ah Wilderness,” “Buried Child,” “Big River,” and “Lone Star and Pvt. Wars.” Additionally, Burmester originated the role of the money-grubbing innkeeper Thenardier in the original Broadway cast of “Les Miserables.”

Burmester also appeared in dozens of television and movie roles not least of which included “The Devil’s Advocate,” “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and “Lone Star,” and the actor had just finished filming a part in Spike Lee’s film “M.O.N.Y.”

Burmester will be sincerely missed on Broadway, but if you want a chance to see some of the roles that this theater veteran made famous, make sure you check out the shows playing all over the country at stubhub.com!

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