TheNarrator is a common character type in stage shows. And frequently, the narrator's gender will be unspecified and irrelevant to the story. This trope is for those characters.

• The Leading Player fromPippin is perhaps the most well-known version.
• The Stage Manager fromOur Town.
• Despite only being in the first and last scenes, the actor in A.R. GurneyRichard Cory serves a narrator-like purpose and is not of a specified gender.
• The Chorus fromHenry V.
• The Balladeer fromAssassins, apart from being referenced as 'boy' once by Booth, could be played as female.
  • Only in the original staging. The revival, and most touring companies thereafter, require the Balladeer to be malebecause he's actually Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • Same goes for The Narrator inBlood Brothers.
• The Cat in the Hat inSeussical.
• The Narrator inAndrew Lloyd Webber'sJoseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an interesting example: as written, the character has no specific gender, but is now always played by a woman to amend for the complete lack of female characters (other than Potiphar's Wife).
• Not necessarily the narrator of the story, but the Book Voice of J. Pierrepont Finch's bookHow to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying in the musical of the same name could arguably fit this trope; in most of the productions it's usually a male.

• Trope
• Theater Tropes
• Pages Needing Wicks
• Gender-Neutral Narrator