"Matt Caplin will be performing in every high school production of RENT later this year...as the part of mark...still"
BroadwayboundJoe, you need to pay closer attention. Matt CaplAn has been in the Broadway production of South Pacific since it opened 15 months ago. He's also now celebrating his wife's Tony win. I don't imagine he gives Rent much of a thought these days.
Diane Fratantoni is now known as Diane Sutherland - she took her husband's name - and was last seen in Light in the Piazza as Signora Nacarelli, replacing Patti Cohenour.
I saw Diane Sutherland and her husband (I forget his first name -- Brian, maybe?) as Sarah and Sky in a touring production of "Guys and Dolls" a few years ago, the one with Maurice Hines as Nathan. They were very good. (If you guys remember my story about the actors who got dive-bombed by a bird in an open-air theater, that was them. )
oh thanks you guys about fratatoni. glad to hear it (except the dive bomb),, anyone know stephen crenshaw? last i saw him was afew rows ahead of me at Ballroom.
Re: Kim Crosby, I believe she and Robert have two darling little girls and he did a regional production of THE FULL MONTY not too long ago. Read an interview somewhere. Kim used to appear with various orchestras around the country singing in concert.
My biggest loss is that of Kathleen Rowe-McAllen, Tony nom'd for Aspects of Love. Someone told me she was working in an office back in California. I actually found her brother online at one point but was too chicken to send him an email to tell her how badly she was missed.
How about Patricia Elliot, Victoria Mallory and Mark Lambert? I miss them all even if I'm only familiar with their work on A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. And I know Laurence Guittard has done a lot of work regionally but why hasn't he been on Broadway since 1992?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Dollypop---you seriously don't know what happened to Danny Lockin (Barnaby in the movie "Hello, Dolly!)?
He died in a horrifically brutal way back in 1977 at the age of 34. He picked up a guy in a bar, they went back to his place, and he was tortured and murdered (stabbed more than 100 times).
Still makes me sick every time I think about it. By the way, Google is a very easy way to find out about many of these people.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Aside from being a standby in the 2001 "Follies", Don Correia pretty much disappeared til this current revival (same with Sandy Duncan aside from an Encores! show). I guess he's a pretty successful realtor in Connecticut where he and Sandy live.
Same with Susan Watson.
and what about Shirley Jones?? where's she/what's she doing??
Um...Sandy Duncan works almost constantly. It's just mostly in regional theatre.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
D'Jamin Bartlett lives in Florida now and works behind the scenes, but I believe she still performs occasionally. She sang "The Miller's Son" at a concert at Joe's Pub several years ago and was amazing, still managing the song in the original key.
I saw Amanda Plummer as Alma in SUMMER AND SMOKE at Paper Mill in 2007. She was magnificent.
Michael Maguire still performs concerts, mostly in California, where he lives. He also earned a law degree several years ago. I remember talk that he'd been blackballed to a degree in New York because he'd been physically abusive toward his then-girlfriend, Susan Stroman, back in the early nineties. No idea how truthful that is, but it's a pervasive sentiment.
I believe Ruffelle is still active in the UK.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body