The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four- Page 19
The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#451
Posted: 5/13/08 at 4:33pm
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#452
Posted: 5/13/08 at 5:57pm
Hah.
This is excellent.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#453
Posted: 5/13/08 at 7:11pmGee....looks just like my yard....
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#454
Posted: 5/13/08 at 9:45pm
Raul Esparza
Best Featured Actor in a Play Nominee for The Homecoming
"I just finished a run-through of a workshop of [the new musical] Leap of Faith, so I've been working today. My manager called me and woke me up [with news of the nomination], and I said, 'You're kidding!' I really didn't expect this one. With some [nominations], you kind of feel it in the water; I didn't feel that with this one. When a show's closed, it's 'out of sight, out of mind,' I always figure. But I'm overjoyed. I actually dreamt I hadn't gotten nominated. You try not to care about it too much, but that's ridiculous because it's a really big deal. Company was truly a dream come true, and then I followed that with The Homecoming, which may be the happiest professional experience I've had in New York. It was the kind of show where you went to work and you just felt a peace; there was a real sense of doing a job and doing it well. It's a show where my performance and [nominee] Eve [Best's] performance were entirely supported by, colored by and shaped by the other actors onstage. I've never felt so much like a member of an ensemble in New York where each actor onstage always had your back. It was very special to me."
Heh, I love that he didn't even wake up for them.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#455
Posted: 5/13/08 at 9:50pmAll those late nights at South Pacific. :-X
Wanting life but never knowing how
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/27/04
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#456
Posted: 5/14/08 at 12:07amYay! Congrats Raul!
Wishes come true, not free.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#457
Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:50am
Awww, ditto on The Homecoming company love, they were a phenomenal ensemble. <33
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#458
Posted: 5/14/08 at 9:23amLove that picture! Eve Best looks like she is 14 years old.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#459
Posted: 5/14/08 at 12:52pm
She's so pretty.
lol at Raul's "who are you and where am I?" look.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#460
Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:47pmEve looks gorgeous. Cute picture, even if Raul looks a little confused
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#462
Posted: 5/14/08 at 1:51pm
And of course the sideburns. I think I had forgotten how insane they actually were.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#463
Posted: 5/14/08 at 3:07pm
It really looks like he didn't know they were about to take a picture, he just saw everyone together and went over to them just as it was taken.
"Hey guys, wazzup? Oh look, a camera!"
LOL! Seriously, I can't picture Raúl having 'wazzup' in his vocabulary but I love the idea!!
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#464
Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:05pm
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117741.html
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#465
Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:08pmWow, they got those up fast!
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#467
Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:26pmPatti made me lol. I love it.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#468
Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:33pmHah! Her shirt is awesome.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#469
Posted: 5/14/08 at 6:55pm
I assume the lapel pins are their nominee pins since all seem to have them.
If Raul gets any thinner, he is going to have to get new headshots.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#470
Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:01pm
October 2007 vs May 2008
Does anyone else find the difference....disconcerting?
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#472
Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:07pm... not really.
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#473
Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:08pm
His hairline is receding? Not sure what the concern is; he looks fine in both.
Oh. Weight. Meh. He's yo-yoed for years; not worth obsessing over. Look a pictures from before Chitty; he was a chunker then too.
Wanting life but never knowing how
re: The Raúl E. Esparza 'Spread the Love' thread, part four#474
Posted: 5/14/08 at 8:31pm
OK. Comment withdrawn. I guess I'm cranky because I just spent two and a half hours fighting gridlocked Los Angeles traffic. 
Actually, the hairline didn't bother me at all, because it's not receding, it's an optical illusion caused by the longer hair he's sporting now (I draw the line at calling it "fluffier" 
).
But he really cannot afford to lose any more weight.
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