Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
ActingAndy
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/06
#0Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:44pmList B'way stars from your hometown (and of course what your hometown is!)
ActingAndy
Stand-by Joined: 6/20/06
#1re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:45pm
St. Louis, Mo
Ken Page
Norbert Leo Butz
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#2re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:48pm
Wilmington DE-
Raul Esparza
Susan Stroman
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#3re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:49pm
NYC, NY
A lot
"Have they come yet?"
#4re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:53pmI thought Raul was from around here? Miami, FL. Im actually from Fort Lauderdale, about 40 mins. north.
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whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#5re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 7:57pmI'm pretty sure he was born in DE but moved there later, so I guess both are sort of valid.
#6re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:01pmBob Martin!
That was pure vodka, you poop!
#7re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:12pmI hate my computer. See below. Haha. Updated On: 7/1/06 at 08:12 PM
#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. 
#9re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:13pmAndy, you can also claim Kathleen Turner.
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#10re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 8:19pmAlec Baldwin
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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.
#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 8:35pmPatti 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!
#16re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 9:54pmAaron Lazar and John Tartaglia are from nearby towns.
#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 
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That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
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Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
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bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#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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broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#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
~Sara~
#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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"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#22re: Broadway Stars From Your Hometown?
Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:00pmNorbert Leo Butz lives in a town near mine. But I have never seen him. sad.
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Marguerite Chauvelin
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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.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
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)
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)
#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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