Official Norbert Leo Butz Love Thread
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
To The Stage!
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/28/06
#2951Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:04pm
Me too
I just clicked the link
I'm only good at being young
#2952Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:04pmcool! thanks guys!
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2953Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:06pmNo problem. This is better than having my music on random. Good song choices, by the way. I love Cabaret.
#2954Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:20pm
cool! here's the list:
The Scarlet Pimpernel -The Scarlet Pimpernel
For Good -Wicked
Dangerous Game -Jekyll and Hyde
Jolly Holiday -Mary Poppins
Holding on for a Hero -Footloose
Don't Look Now -Sweet Smell of Success
Nobody Needs to Know -Last 5 Years
All About Ruprecht -DRS
weird, cause the pimpernel song reminds me of FA Scwartz theme song. no idea why. haha.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2955Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:30pmFOOTLOOSE. Dre, I love you. Footloose is my life. You should play The Girl Gets Around, though. Haha. I love that song.
#2956Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:39pmhey, I take requests all the time. But I'll play it next week, I promise. next sunday, I'll come on here and ask you guys if you would like to request songs. And I'm willing to accept any cast recordings that I don't have that you would lvoe to hear. ie Sweeny Todd.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2957Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:41pm
Oh awesome. I don't have Sweeney either and would love to hear it.
But yeah, I love Footloose. I'm actually surprised I haven't changed my avatar to Footloose yet. Now I want to do that. But anyway, looking forward to some Norbert at the end.
#2958Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:54pm
yay you did change it!
I've met Billy Hartung. he is awesome. Friend of my old middle school teacher. he told us a story of when he entered on with his motorcycle and when he swung it around to face the audience, the engine part of it flew off into the wings. he went on with the scene and when he was suppose to exit, the sound guys make the engine roaring sound cue which was stupid casue the audience had just seen the engine go off into the wings. funny story.
oo, another story. He was trying out for a muscal ( i think it was damn yankees) and he made it down to the last like 10 guys and they were all asked if they could do a sort of gynastic routine. and, not wanting to be cut right then and there, Billy said yeah, when her really couldn't. When it came to him, he made up something and tried his best. I think he said he had never tried anything harder than that. when he finished, the casting people went down the line again, asking for them to try another one. when they got to Billy, they said he didn't have to do it. he was happy, but knew that was bad. just like he thought, he didn't get the part.
I guess you had to be there listening to him tell it.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2959Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 1:59pm
Billy is my teacher! I'm not even kidding. I love him, he's so awesome and it'a great to know someone who actually knows who he is.
Those stories are so AWESOME. I have a few I could tell you.
He was recently in a show in Pittsburgh, where I live, called Hearts Are Wild, and he played 7 characters. One of those characters was a woman and so on his last night of the show his daughters, who are ADORABLE, painted his toe nails red. And they told him that daddy needed to look pretty if he was playing a woman.
#2960Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 2:27pmJust feel like I need to add more love to the Norb thread!! He is so awesome and wicked!
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2961Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 2:34pm
Thank you for getting us back on topic. Haha. I get a little crazy when it comes to talking about Billy.
Anyway, welcome to the thread.
#2962Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:14pmI love Norbs, i cant wait for his sitcom. grrr!
"Ah the city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them is shining on you."
CLIFF: "There was a cabaret and there was a master of ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin in a country called Germany - and it was the end of the world and I was dancing with Sally Bowles - and we were both fast asleep"
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2963Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 11:44pm
So I was looking at pictures of Norbert and Michelle today and they are, in my opinion, the most adorable Broadway couple.
Agree or disagree?
#2964Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/17/06 at 11:55pmThey are so adorable. Too bad there werent more pictures.
"Ah the city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them is shining on you."
CLIFF: "There was a cabaret and there was a master of ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin in a country called Germany - and it was the end of the world and I was dancing with Sally Bowles - and we were both fast asleep"
RENThead414
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/05
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/06
#2968Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 1:12pm
it's not bad, but not my favorite.
last 5 years, now that is gooooodddd.
I just saw that the title of the thread (inside at least) is Norbert for president. hahaha!
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#2969Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 2:00pm
I'm sorry if this has already come up on this thread but I couldn't read through all 199 pages of this.
How long did Norbert appear in Wicked? Maybe it's just me but it seems that he was only there for a short time.
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2970Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 5:18pm
Last 5 Years is amazing and my favorite cast recording that Norbert is on. Listening to Thou Shalt Not was amazing though. I really love the songs a lot.
To answer smiles question, Norbert was with Wicked for 9 months. Norbert doesn't like to stay with shows too long though, which is why everyone was surprised when he renewed his contract for DRS. Hope that helps!
#2971Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 5:19pmYeah, this thread is at the top of the board. :)
#2972Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 11:06pmIt may have seemed that Norb was in Wicked less cos he hurt his back and had to have surgery & was out a few months w that (Taye covered I believe)
Behind_the_Spotlight
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#2973Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 11:11pm
I think for a good part of the time he was out, his understudy Kris Cusick (I'm almost positive that's how you spell his name... either way, he's amazing) covered for him, and Taye came in sometime around Christmas. I'm almost sure about that.
On that note... Hi, I love Norbert Leo Butz. He owns my heart. <3
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#2974Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 11:29pm
Behind- you're right. Norbert was injured during his run. I think it was a back problem but if I'm wrong someone please correct me. And yes, Kristopher Cusik who is now in the Chicago cast of Wicked playing Fiyero.
And Behind, welcome to our little corner of the internet. Good to have you here.
Behind_the_Spotlight
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#2975Norbert for president.
Posted: 4/21/06 at 11:52pm
Thank you! Norbert was my first Broadway love. "Dancing Through Life" secured my love, and I'll always be grateful to him for that. Because then I went out and got L5Y and Scoundrels, and was thus introduced to the enormous world outside of Wicked. Norbert=love.
I saw Kris as Fiyero when I went to Wicked last spring. He's really good.
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