Profile for SamIAm

I find it interesting that people love to bash artists like this but when you break down his catalogue of work and his philanthropic efforts, it is hard to believe that the people criticizing him have done half as much. He has written musicals, had a career that includes more hits than most artists of any age, and donated instruments around the world and country so kids can have a musical education. His music is known world wide. You have the right to like or dislike any artist but you can si

First, your examples are really a false equivalence. Yes, you might talk to a pilot before a flight or a surgeon before surgery but you are not talking to the pilot while they are trying to get to their flight on time or the surgeon while they are trying to get the O.R. on time. Nor are you stopping them on the street to ask for their autograph or picture. The point people are trying to make is that the ticket to the show entitles you to the very best performance the actor can give you. It do

Please DO NOT ADVISE PEOPLE TO APPROACH ACTORS BEFORE A SHOW. It is rude and is bound to end up in disappointment. Even the most accommodating of them will be in a rush and trying to get to the theater. And, in essence, your ticket buys you a good performance, not access after a show so if an actor chooses not to do the stage door, that should be respected. As has been mentioned before in this thread, you COULD ask at the stage door and see if you could send the poster back to be signed. Depe

I had the privilege of seeing him do The Fantasticks and Promises, Promises. I always got a chuckle out of the conversations I had with people once Lawn & Order came on. Why is it that TV viewers always assume that an artist's history started with the TV show they know. People would say, 'I didn't know he could sing.'  You still hear that today about other Broadway talent that have transitioned to TV. Orbach as a force and, he managed to pursue his career without bein

Reading back through this and other threads on other boards, people were initially complaining about all the bodily fluid, blood, etc and the splashing. Now, it seems people are disappointed that there isn't enough blood and that it is not outrageous enough. As with any other show, I always suggest to people that they do their homework and understand what they are buying tickets to and what it is about so that they aren't sitting in the audience annoyed or disappointed. I remember sto

To call this production a mess because they experienced a cast member injury is not the definition of 'a mess' in my mind. A mess is when a production is racing toward preview opening and the cast and crew is not ready because of technical issues, an inability to focus the piece or capture the characters or, in the extreme, to remember lines!  

This was an incident that could not have been predicted and, rather than starting previews before they are ready and risking

It could be that someone is cheap but it could also be that they just can't believe what they are seeing. I was at a performance during Rex Harrison's last run in My Fair Lady. He walked through the performance in a fugue state and Cathleen Nesbitt was, by then, so feeble that a man in a morning coat had to lead her around the stage and get her to hit her mark. At one point she kept calling Pickering by Henry's name and called her son, Henry, Colonel Pickering. It was SO bad that