Broadway Stars in Movies

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:51pm

It seems to be that every movie I watch lately (well, not necessarily lately), there is someone I recognize from a Broadway show...

Cherry Jones - The Village
Adam Pascal - School of Rock
Colm Feore - Chicago
Donna Murphy - Center Stage
Susan Egan - 13 Going on 30

and many, many others. What other people have you guys seen?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:52pm

bunches of people, including Matt Morrison and Sherie Renne Scott in Marci X
Hugh Jackman - X Men, Swordfish, Kate & Leopold... ect

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 7:54pm

Kristen- Bewitched
theres a Becky Ann Baker in war of the worlds
Joanthan Pryce- The World Is Not Enough
Taye Diggs- Chicago

[BluCat500]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:00pm

Oh timely thread...I just watched Le Divorce today and was amazed to find Stockard Channing, Bebe Neuwirth, and Glen Close.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:03pm

Watching Hitch the other day, I was like 'I know that guy...' and it was Chip from Spelling Bee! (his real name has vacated my mind as of this second...oops)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:05pm

yes i noticed that too! I thought that was awesome... I knew I recognized the photographer but I couldn't put my finger on it!

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:05pm

Jose Llana?

[jo]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:06pm

Before he reprises his Wolverine role again, Hugh is actually filming a new Woody Allen movie in London at present - with Woody, Scarlett Johansson, and Ian McShane as co-stars.

He is on the A-list for both the movies and the stage.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:13pm

donna murphy did a cameo in the film "the door on the floor"

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:37pm

Donna Murphy- Center Stage
Kristin Chenoweth - Bewitched
Carole Shelley - Bewitched

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:59pm

Oh, Gavin Creel was in the second Eloise movie... as was Sarah Topham... What is Marci X?

[kangaroo]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:19pm

Marci X: movie made in 2003

Marci, a spoiled Jewish American Princess, is forced to take control of her father's hard-core rap label, Felony Assault, when her mogul dad, Ben Feld, has a stress-induced heart attack due to the controversy surrounding the label's hip-hop song Shoot Ya' Teacha by Dr. Snatchcatcher. To rescue her father's plummeting stock, Marci attempts to tone down the rapper's bad-boy edge. Over time, the unlikely pair fall in love just as a conservative senator vows to banish the rapper and his offensive lyrics from the airwaves forever.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:21pm

Susan Egan's voice in Hercules.

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:22pm

Patrick Wilson:
HBO's "Angels in America" (Joe Pitt) (filmed at the same time he starred as "Curley" in the revival of "Oklahoma"


"The Alamo" (Colonel William Barrett Travis)


ALW's "The Phantom of the Opera" (Raoul)


"Hard Candy" (being released this Dec) (Jeff Kohlver)

[kangaroo]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:25pm

beacon... I haven't seen the Alamo but I knew that I recognized him as soon as I saw pictures. I like your pictures

[Justice]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:47pm

Opening this thread, I would think that people are surprised to see B'way stars in film, as if it were uncommon. Look up your fave star on imdb, and you'll find 99% of the time, they were in a film or two...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:48pm

BEACON YOU POSTED PATRICK AND MARY LOUISE!! Ahhhhh.

[beacon1]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:50pm

I know...I totally heart MLP. She's beautiful and so talented.
She was the perfect Harper Pitt.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 9:59pm

She's a goddess and I love her and I don't care if that's weird!

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:03pm

Like, EVERYONE is in Marci X. There's a thread about that movie, being that so many people were in it.

Manley Pope was also in Marci X. That movie did so bad, but I love it .. sheerly for Boyz R Us(Matthew and Manley) and Sherie. It's so great.


heart.
mel

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:48pm

Yes, I do have to say, often times I am surprised to see them... but happily!

I will have to see Marci X.

And I just remembered that Idina is in Kissing Jessica Stein... she has one line... "Are you the lesbian?" Greatness...

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 10:52pm

in ocean's 12 was cherry jones and eddie izzard and in garden state were dennis o'hare and george c. wolfe and jackie hoffman... sorry, those were just two that i've watched recently.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:16pm

Cherry Jones also has a significant part in Cradle Will Rock.. Interesting but flawed film. Stephen Spinella has a cameo, as does Audra McDonald's singing voice. I think there were a bunch of Broadway people in the chorus as well.

Brian O'Byrne was the priest in Million Dollar Baby. Meaning that his three most visible recent roles are 1) A pedophile (Frozen), 2) A priest (Million Dollar Baby) 3) A priest accused of being a pedophile (Doubt). I think he needs to try something really different about now.

It has been said many times but I'll say it again here that Marissa Jaret Winokur was Lester's co-worker at Mr. Smiley's in American Beauty.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:18pm

mjw was also in fever pitch and never been kissed. margo martindale was also in million dollar baby. audra mcdonald was also in the object of my affection.

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/3/05 at 11:22pm

Are some you forgetting Donna Murphy had a role in Spiderman 2? You've been naming all the other movies she's been in. It wasn't just a cameo either in SM2. She had a nice amount of lines, not a lot of film time, but she was good.