Arthur Blakey

Arthur Blakey (often called simply The Man in playbills) is a fictional character in Mary Haley Bell's novel Whistle Down the Wind (1959). The novel has been repeatedly adapted to film and stage, most famously in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. Blakey, a fugitive murderer, hides in a rural village where a group of pious children mistake him for the Second Coming of Jesus, setting off a paradoxical series of events which parallel the Gospel narrative and lead to an awakening of conscience in several characters.

Arthur Blakey in "The Great White Way"
Arthur Blakey was one of Brent Birley's virtual Webberites in the Sondheim-Webber battle. Putting up a valiant but losing fight against the Sondheads, Blakey was killed with a razor by Sweeney Todd.