Broadway performer's hometowns — Page 4

#76

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/3/06 at 11:31am

the Callaways (liz & ann) are from chicago.
i grew up in st. louis and while there are many b'way lights from there over the years i will say that kevin kline went to the catholic boys school that was the "brother" school of my catholic girls school.
and ellen foley graduated many many years ahead of me -- but people say i remind them of her.

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#77

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:06pm

Shoshana Bean is from Beaveron, Oregon.

Beaverton - Representn'!

#78

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/4/06 at 4:13pm

I believe that Sutton and Hunter are originally from Georgia and later moved to Michigan. If my memory serves me correctly their family now lives in Memphis, TN (I won't swear by it but I believe I read that somewhere in an interview with Sutton.).

Rebecca Luker is from Helena, AL (same as Bo Bice)

Updated On: 5/4/06 at 04:13 PM

#79

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/10/06 at 8:54pm

John Glover & Linda Hamilton-Salisbury, MD
Jennifer Hope Wills-Ocean City, MD

#80

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:01pm

Hey Shuq, I know you posted it like a year ago, but I'm from Kentucky (Louisville) and both Paige Davis and Sara Gettelfinger are from here. Aside from other really famous people (Nicole Somethingorother who is the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Rosemary Clooney...)

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#81

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:09pm

i can't think of anyone from my areas of Massachusetts... help me out if you know.

and i can't imagine anyone's from my town now in the Tampa Bay area in FL.

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#82

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/10/06 at 9:23pm

Andrew Rannells (the current Link in Hairpsray) went to my rival high school back in Omaha, NE. And also Johnathan Rayson from Little Shop of Horrors (Hunter's u/s and the tour Seymore) is from Omaha.

Cheers,

Christopher

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#83

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/10/06 at 10:20pm

Yay... I've got three!

Deborah S. Craig (Spelling Bee)

Maggie Benjamin (Rent)

Lindsey Allen (ummm dunno about bway but Mickey Mouse Club)

All from good old Lakeland, FL! All were in The Pied Piper Players too!

#84

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/10/06 at 10:27pm

Joey McIntyre's from my hometown . . . yeah J.P., Massachusetts!

#85

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/10/06 at 10:31pm

"There seems to be a ton of performers from Ohio on Broadway. Gavin Creel, Michael Cavenaugh, Jennifer Gambatese, Michelle Federer, David Ayers, Jessica Grove, etc. It gives me hope!"

Hope to be mostly unknown? Why, O Why, O Why O?

#86

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/11/06 at 1:55am

Michael Arden is from Midland Texas. Not Odessa.

#87

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/11/06 at 8:50am

Billy Porter is from Pittsburgh and went to the creative and performing arts high school as a musical theatre major. I'm at the same school as a musical theatre major so it's nice to see an alumni actually go on and actually perform since half of our school doesn't even go on and make a living off of there major in high school.

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#88

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/11/06 at 11:46am

Carolee Carmello is from my hometown of Albany, NY

David Hyde Pierce is from Clifton Park, 40 min north of Albany.

Although not a Broadway star, Rachel Ray is from the Albany area as well (Lake Luzerne, about an hour or so north)

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#89

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/11/06 at 9:16pm

Oscar Hammerstein II was born in the town that I now live in.

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#90

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 5/12/06 at 12:14am

Joe Mantello and Marin Mazzie went to HS together to be exact. Along with someone else big, but I can't remember off the top of my head. Something was in the water in Rockford.

You can also add Celia Keenan-Bolger (SP?) to the Michigan list.

Rachael York went to a near-by High School.

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#91

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 4:00am

Patrick Wilson was born in Norfork, Virginia, but was raised in St. Petersberg, Florida.

#92

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Posted: 6/10/06 at 9:11am

Linda Lavin's from Maine. Does that count? :)

#93

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 9:26am

Count me as another person from Carolee Carmello's home town, circusliz.

She went to the same high school I did and we had the same drama teachr there, just in different years.

#94

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 9:38am

Rob Sapp is from Cleveland, Ohio. I know people who went to school with him. Also, Vlad -- From Camp ... Daniel Letterle, who's done some professional work, is from where I grew up as well. I went to school in his hometown for a while and saw him in Bye, Bye, Birdie at his HS. Now I see relatives of his all the time because I work with everyone and their mother in Cleveland. (A grocery store)

#95

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 10:06am

My aunt, Marion Herson, also from Ihaca, NY, was in Lady Do, Rain or Shine, Privelage Car, The Little Show, Jonica, Fine and Dandy, Take a Chance, Saluta, and Babes in Arms. And, yes, she's alive and well and living in Florida now

#96

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 1:17pm

Kevyn Morrow (sp?) is from Omaha also and was C.C. in the revival of Dreamgirls, in the ensemble of Scarlet Pimpernel and did some other things. He's back home this summer doing a production of Ragtime as Coalhouse, which he did in London a few years back.

Cheers,

Christopher

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#97

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 1:34pm

Drew Sarich is from St. Louis

Joey Fatone went to my HS in Orlando (graduated a few years before I came in) and dated a friend of mine. Wayne Brady (okay...doesn't really count) also went to my HS. Mandy Moore (also doesn't count) is from Orlando and was in a program at the Civic Center w/ a friend of mine.

oh--and this totally doesn't count, but if u saw Date Movie, I went to school with Jello. She graduated a year ahead of me.

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#98

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 1:38pm

More Long Islanders
Not a performer, but Stephen Shwartz went to my rival high school. (Mineola)
Idina Menzel(not sure if someone already posted this) (Syosset)
Non Broadwayers
Mariah Carrey (Massapequa)
Kevin Covais, from American Idol (Levittown)

Updated On: 6/10/06 at 01:38 PM

#99

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 1:58pm

I'm from NEOhio as well ... born and raised. Emma Wahl (Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang) is from My area as well.

#100

re: Broadway performer's hometowns

Posted: 6/10/06 at 2:23pm

Shoshana Bean is from Portland! Which isn't exactly my hometown but pretty close, and then there's Reid Shelton(Daddy Warbucks in the OBC of Annie) who is from Salem, and then David Larsen is from Portland as well. So YAY for Oregon!

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