Profile for Harpz2006

Aaron has a reputation for never calling out - I think the only times in his career were when it was mandated because he had covid!

Has anyone on here been listening? I binged season 1 yesterday. The actor/podcast creator Sean Hayden changes the name of the actor who antagonized him, but it’s very easily Google-able. It’s pretty shocking how poorly this situation seems to have been handled by the production team.

Shereen Pimentel is Afro-Latina, though.

Has anyone on here watched her new viral YouTube videos? She had a profile in Vanity Fair yesterday and mentions these boards. I remember seeing her in Beauty and the Beast during that run when I was young (and of course also reading these boards at the time)!https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/09/christy-carlson-romano-is-not-afraid-of-the-past"Carrying the show was taxing on her voice, which was already in delicate condition after she had to have surgery to remove vocal nodules right ...

Oh, interesting! Just googled and he said this in a NYT profile in May -- Why aren’t you in the upcoming “Dear Evan Hansen” moviealongside your former co-star Ben Platt?I feel like I couldn’t do it. I started that when I was, like, 21, and was with it for five or six years. When you’re doing eight shows a week, it very much turns into relying on your technique and the job of it. And the show was such a zeitgeisty thing. It really took a lot out of me, and I didn’t really have it in me anymore...

In this very thorough and interesting piece, Marc Platt says, "A number of the folks from Broadway actually came in and read for it, and one of them was even offered a role but decided not to do it." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/dear-evan-hansen-oral-history-1235005684/I'm guessing Rachel Bay Jones? Or maybe Mike Faist? Or maybe he means the Broadway cast in general and I shouldn't be assuming OBC... I'm just very curious!

Shared by his wife on Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/p/B-cCAl_gjtC/?igshid=11rnqabl5vyfb

I didn’t see this posted on here- Rebecca Luker tweeted that Danny was home from the hospital, and I checked his Facebook and he wrote a public post last night that he was exhausted, had survived the experience of COVID-19 and there were times he wasn’t sure he would. It seems to have really run rampant through the cast of MR. So thankful he is ok and recovering!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/theater/west-side-story-amar-ramasar.htmlNew article from NYT.

I just looked at her website and the greeting is "ARE YOU AJESUS-LOVING GIRLEAGER TO GROW IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD? LET’S TALK :)"

^^I think he’s just resharing a story of someone tagging a billboard for his show- I don’t think he’s saying he’s in LA.

I agree that Khamary has a great voice, but he made me really appreciate and think back to the nuance and complexity Aaron Tveit brought to the role. Agree his Gabe was too nice and had no darkness to him... for that reason, Khamary was honestly the weak link for me. That complexity wasn’t there at all. I’m still not over Aaron not getting nominated that year! I didn’t mind Maia’s “pop” voice at all- I thought her singing was beautiful and that she had some very moving moments in her acting a...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g1okZnrTLAkDid anyone watch her Holding to the Ground BWW posted yesterday? Ive seen Eden twice over the years and always kept up with videos posted of her on YouTube- but saw her many years ago in Brooklyn when I was a teen, and was absolutely blown away. I had never heard someone sing like her live, so high and effortless and powerful. I know the show isnt exactly beloved, but her performance absolutely knocked me out! Over the years, in video clips, I could te...

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/career/a10378242/christy-altomare-anastasia-broadway/ In this article, which is in her own words, she basically says she wasn’t working and lived on her savings, for three years. She might still feel like that was accurate despite having a regional gig or two.

I noticed something in both an interview with Christy Altomare when she was in Anastasia and a recent podcast with Desi Oakley. Christy talked about how between playing Sophie and getting Anya, she was basically unemployed for 3 years- auditioning for a ton of stuff but now that she was leading lady status basically because of Mamma Mia, the jobs were more competitive/harder to come by. Desi said something similar about how she was fully unemployed between the end of her run in the Waitress t...

This was posted in the issues at Mean Girls thread but though this deserved its own post. Fascinating episode all about this board over the years, and its current state! Many of us are quoted https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/56-my-obsession-broadwayworld-com-w-melanie-brook/id1260430031?i=1000457085359

I don’t see that comment, but I think they’re friends, and Ben just posted a video of himself rocking out on piano and singing, so it was probably a teasing comment like “ugh you’re so untalented” but meaning the opposite?

I think Tina is very involved- not on a day to day level anymore, but she stays involved with casting and I’m sure still frequently checks in. That said, Tina worked closely with Alec Baldwin for years and he doesn’t have the reputation for always being the easiest to work with. I think Tina is probably very understanding of different personalities and personal struggles, and I don’t see Barrett being on her “bad side” or Tina trying to blacklist her in the industry or anything, but I can see...

Sure, a tinge, but a lot of the rumors on DL are downright vulgar!! Here it was more PG-13. I was also in high school/college during the early days of the board, so maybe that’s why I attach some sentimentality to the “good old days!” I’m not saying I think it should be filled with harmful rumors and slander, which is why I feel DrowsyKaye twisted my words.