For theater people, traveling comes with the territory, so Nick Corley was unfazed last summer when he needed to take a tiny propeller plane back and forth between the Adirondacks, where he was directing a show about Woody Guthrie, and Vermont, where he was rehearsing a production in a barn.

But Mr. Corley, a Broadway veteran who spent many holiday seasons playing Bob Cratchit in “A Christmas Carol” at Madison Square Garden, ranks his current commute as not only the longest but also the strangest he’s ever had: a combination of trains and boats and buses to get from his home in Harlem to Staten Island, where he is starring as Fagin in the Harbor Lights Theater Company production of “Oliver!”

“It’s like five hours of your day, because if you miss the ferry, then you don’t catch the bus,” Mr. Corley said good-naturedly after a performance the other day. “It all stacks up against you.”