I keep hearing Broadway performers singing songs in commercials. Maybe it is my selective perception and I would just like to believe Broadway actors are getting supplemental income but the voices sound eerily familiar.
So far, I believe I have heard Patina Miller singing "At Last" in a Maybelline commercial and Heidi Blickenstaff singing in an Airwick commercial. I believe Heidi's song was called "When Our Love Was New."
Can anyone confirm or deny this? Also, any other commercials or television shows that feature Broadway-related performers would be awesome to hear about.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
Shoshana Bean (Wicked) singing in a Tide Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BRi4mdnKYE&feature=related
Jonathan Root's (The Toxic Avenger) radio voice overs - http://www.jonathan-root.com/voice.php
Megan Mullally does the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter ones
Swing Joined: 5/6/09
Donna Murphy did a paint v.o. commercial.
Wasn't Andy Karl Dulce the dog? Someone once said that here but I wasn't able to really confirm it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
Daphne Rubin-Vega does a couple. Loreal, Aquafresh.
Brian d'Arcy James: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOydQFJdx1k
Oh, shiz! That's Brian d'Arcy James?! Love it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
I just a Christopher Sieber in a Chobani yogurt commercial.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Hugh Jackman uses his Broadway dancing and acting chops to endorse Lipton Ice Tea.
http://www.youtube.com/user/liptonicet
Updated On: 2/23/11 at 05:19 AM
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
And from last year, also for Lipton Ice Tea --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ze0dJFd-M
Updated On: 2/23/11 at 05:25 AM
Well not so much a commercial, but Van Hughes was (still is?) the voice between the commercial breaks on Nickelodeon.
Stand-by Joined: 8/9/10
Montego Glover has done a whole lot of VO's - most notably shes the voice in the Charmin Commercials.
Greg Jabara has done a commercial or two for The Olive Garden. I believe that there was an interview with him at some point where he spoke about going there with his family and, because he was in the commercial the staff there gave them free desert.
Understudy Joined: 5/19/06
Thank you for confirming that it is Christopher Sieber in that Chobani yogurt commercial! I wasn't really paying attention when the ad came on, and he's on for such a short period of time, that I did a double-take, and certainly thought it was him, but wasn't sure.
Sarah Hyland has an Olive Garden commercial running now.
And Kristin Chenoweth is in a singing-and-dancing Mohegan Sun commercial that has been running for years. I still stop to watch it whenever it comes on.
And Catherine-Zeta Jones has done tons of commercials for makeup, cell phone plans, who knows what all, and she's a *Tony winner*! She's *so* Broadway. ::cough::
Billy Crudup in the Visa commercials. Priceless.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
Betsy Wolfe (Yoplait) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtPeI7oifuc&NR=1
*behind the scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TleHdV_HGAk
Mitch Jarvis (Keystone Light) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZHh3eyw6A
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
Sharona D'Ornellas (In The Heights): Optimum Triple Play -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-xwbqUcdaA&feature=related
She's the one holding the torch and jumps off the big rock.
Just saw Janet Dacal in a Multigrain Cherrios Commercial. She was doing some yoga exercises thinking about losing weight for summer.
Swing Joined: 1/17/11
KylieS, I'm almost 100% positive that it isn't Cheno in the Mohegan commercial.
Understudy Joined: 1/16/07
This blog has a list of them if you click on the "commercial" tag: http://www.stage-notes.com/search/label/commercials
Julia Murney for Red Lobster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc0Fvs4oHn0
Updated On: 4/7/11 at 10:49 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
Jason Graae (sp?)was the voice of the Lucky Charms leprecaun at one time, and Faith Prince was the voice of the "Hey, Culligan Man!" lady.
Maybe Greg Jabara's fondness for The Olive Garden is the reason he has high blood pressure AND high cholesterol (according to the commercial).
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