Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened? — Page 2

#26

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Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:08pm

"Is Yul Brynner still in The King and I?"

Was that supposed to be a joke?

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#27

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:38pm

WOSQ, funny you should mention Barry Nelson. I met him on the weekend! He's a friend of my grandmother's. :)

#28

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Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:41pm

No idiot I was serious.

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#29

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:43pm

You may have been joking, but I'm sure Carol Channing is still plugging away as Dolly in some western florida dinner theatre. Maybe we'll see her as dolly back on Broadway before she bites the dust. I wouldn't doubt it.

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#30

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:43pm

Yul Brynner is dead.

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BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

#31

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:45pm

Do you seriously think that was necessary to post? I don't think there's anyone on here that doesn't know that he's dead. Well, maybe that creep that started all those posts about audition songs. He's never even heard of Yul Brynner.

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#32

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:46pm

No I thought I'd just throw it out there.

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BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

#33

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:48pm

Michael Benjamin Washington is in La Cage!

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#34

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Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:49pm

Irrelevant...

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"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#35

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 6:53pm

Chill. I was responding to an earlier post.

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"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer

"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher

#36

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 7:01pm

though it's closed:

Marlene Danielle is the only member of the original cast of CATS to stay with the show for the entire run. As Bombalurina, she had the actor’s dream — steady employment for 18 years.

#37

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Posted: 11/8/04 at 7:02pm

That was already posted.


Has anyone said anything about Cathy Rigby yet? She's been doing Peter Pan on and off for like 178 years.

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"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#38

re: Actors Still In Broadway Shows Since They Opened?

Posted: 11/8/04 at 7:04pm

i think the people who stick with shows for a while are genious. Jobs are far,few and between and as long as the money is good.. the show is a long run , why leave? I'd do anything to get one bway show..I'd be like that lady in cats.

#39

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Posted: 11/8/04 at 7:11pm

The old school Broadway performers were what they called "gypsies" and proud of it. They loved the whole idea of going from show to show, learning new roles, finding new relationships and experiences. Now we're supposed to feel sorry for performers because they don't have steady work. It was never about that. That's the bottom line of an actor's career.

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#40

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Posted: 11/8/04 at 7:31pm

a friend on mine, Todd Lattimore, was in 42nd Street from it's opening until a few weeks ago, when he moved to MA. So thats like 3-ish years.

#41

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Posted: 11/9/04 at 9:02pm

"the original timon and pumba were Max Casella and Ernie Sabella..."

Cool, about Ernie Sabella...he was also the Pumba in the Lion King movies. Not to mention Leon Carosi in those corny Saved By the Bell shows (which I watch!).

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#42

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Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:17pm

according to ibdb.com and the cast recording Tom Alan Robbins was the original pumbaa and i believe still is. the only mention of ernie sabella in the stage version is a miscredited playbill picture.

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