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ActingAndy

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#0Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:44pm

List B'way stars from your hometown (and of course what your hometown is!)

ActingAndy

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#1re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:45pm

St. Louis, Mo

Ken Page
Norbert Leo Butz

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#2re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:48pm

Wilmington DE-

Raul Esparza
Susan Stroman

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#3re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:49pm

NYC, NY

A lot

"Have they come yet?"

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#4re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:53pm

I thought Raul was from around here? Miami, FL. Im actually from Fort Lauderdale, about 40 mins. north.

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#5re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:57pm

I'm pretty sure he was born in DE but moved there later, so I guess both are sort of valid.

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#6re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:01pm

Bob Martin!

That was pure vodka, you poop!

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#7re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:12pm

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#8re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:13pm

Omaha, Nebraska

He's not a Broadway star, but Scott Porter (original Matthew in Altar Boyz and going to be starring in Friday Night Lights on NBC this fall) is from here.

John Lloyd Young also lived here for 4 or 5 years and pretty much got his start in acting here. re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?

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#9re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:13pm

Andy, you can also claim Kathleen Turner.

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#10re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:19pm

Alec Baldwin

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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#11re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:26pm

I seem to recall a previous thread on this...but...

Carolee Carmello - Albany, NY

David Hyde Pierce comes from this general area, too, but a bit north.

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#12re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:29pm

Not necessarily stars, but here are some good working actors from my home town of Lawrence, Kansas:

Jane Bodle - Cats, Les Miz, Miss Saigon, Me and My Girl, Sunset Boulevard
Patricia Garland - Original Judy in "A Chorus Line"
Lorenzo Fuller - "Kiss Me Kate" OBC (played Paul and introduced "Too Darn Hot" to the world). He was also in "Finnian's Rainbow" and "St. Louis Woman."

Other notables who went to school in Lawrence, Kansas (at Kansas University---my Alma Mater!):

Mandy Patinkin
Nancy Opel
Neil LaBute
Don Johnson
Paul Rudd
Joyce Castle
Scott Bakula
Mary Bracken Phillips
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Becky Barta

Other non-Broadway notables from Lawrence, Kansas:

Delbert Mann (Oscar-winning director of "Marty")
Erin Brokovich
Langston Hughes
William S. Burroughs
Herk Harvey
Jay Karnes
Paul Coker Jr.
Hugh Beaumont

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#13re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:35pm

Patti LaPone, Northport LI's own!

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#14re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 9:45pm

Chicago

Felicia Fields.

I'm claiming Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, too! (she's from Joliet, a south suburb of Chi)

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#15re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 9:50pm

Portland, ME

Christopher Fitzgerald!

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#16re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 9:54pm

Aaron Lazar and John Tartaglia are from nearby towns.

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#17re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 9:54pm

Umm..my teacher taught Mandy Patinkin and now my teacher lives in my town..you could say a star is from my hometown then, separated by a degree :P

Otherwise, no re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?

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#18re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:45pm

Seattle

Carol Channing
Cheyenne Jackson
Megan Hilty
Shoshana Bean (Olympia - south of Seattle)

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#19re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:48pm

Maybe they aren't stars but oh well.
Pittsburgh, PA
Billy Porter (Who went to my high school)
Billy Hartung

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#20re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:55pm

Ann Reinking--Bellevue, WA!

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#21re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 10:58pm

Michele Dowdy (current Tracy Turnblad u/s) graduated from my arts school in St. Pete, Florida, last year.
I think the girl who's playing Amber in the movie is from Tampa too.

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#22re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:00pm

Norbert Leo Butz lives in a town near mine. But I have never seen him. sad.

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#23re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:05pm

Cincinnati- Vicki Lewis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Drew Lachey

I'm sure there are more but those are the first ones I think of. A lot of stars like Shoshana Bean, Pam Meyers, and Ben Mangeson have graduated from CCM at University of Cincinnati.

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Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

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#24re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:08pm

Nobody... basically.
The closest is Gavin Creel... he's from Findlay and I live in Toledo.
I guess I could claim Katie Holmes in general, but she's... not talented... or on Broadway (which is a good thing).

Here's a story though. Katie and Tom will be here in a few weeks. My friend is caddying their golf game. And my sister is serving their dinner.
Yeah, her family is really nice... her dad works with my dad... I can't understand what happened to her.

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