James Barbour

His likeness was immortalized in a caricature portrait on the wall at Sardi's, and unveiled in March 2017.

Barbour played the title role in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera for nearly three years, from February 2015 until December 2017. He was succeeded by Peter Jöback.

In 2014, he gave a fundraising performance for Scientology.

In 2011, it was announced that he would play the supporting role of Jack Favel in the Broadway musical adaptation of Rebecca. The production was plagued with legal and financial problems, and the production has been indefinitely postponed after multiple delays.

He repeated the holidays concerts in 2009 in both New York and Los Angeles. In 2010, he expanded these concerts to six cities.

In 2009 he gave a benefit concert for The Actor's Fund Of America at Feinsteins At The Regency in New York City.

He started a holiday-concert series in 2008, launching it at Sardis restaurant in New York singing many Holiday classics. Each performance featured a guest performer. These guests included Brandi Burkhardt, Natalie Toro, Deborah Gibson, Marla Schaffel, Marc Kudisch, and Kevin Earley.

In April 2006, Barbour was arrested and charged with statutory rape of a 15-year-old female minor five and half years prior. In the Fall of 2006, he was indicted by a grand jury in New York for said crime. In January 2008, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour counts of endangering the welfare of a minor in exchange for a lesser sentence of 60 days in jail and three years' probation. Also, in accordance with his plea bargain, Barbour made a public allocution to these misdemeanors. He began his sixty-day jail sentence at Rikers Island on February 29, 2008.

In late 2007, he performed the role of Sydney Carton in a world premiere pre-Broadway musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. Following a 60-day incarceration in Rikers Island for admitting that he endangered the welfare of a child, he reprised his role in the 2008 Broadway production of A Tale of Two Cities, which closed after only 60 performances.

He has been an Artist Committee Board member of The Actors Fund of America for since 2000 during which time he has performed many charitable fundraisers in support of the Fund and Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

Barbour made his Broadway debut in 1993, in the short-lived production of Cyrano: The Musical. He has frequently played emotionally-troubled men in period musicals, including the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Billy Bigelow in Carousel, Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre (for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award), and Leon Czolgosz in Assassins. He also appeared in the Broadway production of Urinetown, and in the National Tours of The Secret Garden and Camelot.

James Barbour (born April 25, 1966) is an American singer and Broadway actor. In 2008, Barbour pleaded guilty to two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, after being accused in 2006 of statutory rape of a female minor.

Barbour was born April 25, 1966 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He graduated from Hofstra University, where he majored in English and Theatre with a minor in Philosophy and Physics.