Broadway performers that graduated from your High School?

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:38am

All I know of from mine is John Cudia..

He graduated before our current music teacher and play director worked here - so we don't really have any connections with him.. But I thought that was really cool. Considering I go to a NJ Catholic School of only 1,000 kids.

So any Broadway performers that you know of graduated from your HS?
Updated On: 5/30/05 at 12:38 AM

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:41am

I don't have any... but one of the local schools (Boylan HS) Jodi Benson graduated from!!!

She's my hero! lol

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:43am

No Broadway stars, but Tommy Lee Jones, Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson all graduated from my high school.

Well, Owen actually got expelled before he graduated, but still...

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:44am

LOL..why does it not surprise me that between Luke and Owen--Owen was expelled!

[kangaroo]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:48am

A few years down the road you'll hear about:
Liza Kawaller
Esther Kang

who both came from my school!
~kangaroo [Just you wait ...]

EDIT: I would like to now state that neither of them are me... I'm not so conceited as to write something like that

Updated On: 5/30/05 at 12:48 AM

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:49am

I actually have the teacher who expelled him.
She's nice enough.
He was caught cheating on her final exam.
The same exam I have to take on Wednesday and I'm not ready for.

[dotmarie]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:49am

My choir teacher (who grew up where I live now) grew up with Mandy Gonzalez. I think she went to my middle school.

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 12:53am

HA...well, to connect more to Jodi B. I think it's my dance teacher that went to school with her.I'm too shy to ask her! We have a saying "the Rockford 5" (or is it 4? lol) and it's a bunch of people from Rockford that all made it to Bway around the same time (like they all went to school together etc). SOme as performers, some directors I think, etc. I need to ask someone about it cuz I don't understand!

[tagiunagi]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:01am

Carol Channing

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:03am

Tony Gonzalez, who played the lead in the national tour of "Saturday Night Fever" went to my high school. I remember going to see him in the school's production of "West Side Story".

[nodaybut2day2007]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:08am

Ann Sanders (Christmas Eve understudy from Avenue Q) i saw her in January and she went out to dinner (along with John, Stephanie, and Rick) with my entire troupe good times......

My choir techer was best friends with Joshua Kobak in HS

[aegeusrocks]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:14am

Gary Sinise! My aunt was in his class when she went to the high school I go to now.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:21am

Lisa Howard (Spelling Bee) and an ensemble member on tour with Mamma Mia! went to Firestone High School, a school I could have gone to and regret not. Sebastian LaCause (Rocky Horror Show) went to Cuyahoga Falls High School, a school district a city over. I work with a lot of people from both schools.

[Racetrack]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:27am

Chad Kimball went to my high school and generally comes back about every two years to tell us what he's up to and perform for us.

[Blair]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:29am

Well, not a Broadway performer, but Kip Driver from the Les Mis tour graduated from a high school near me. You might also remember him from being featured in the book "Making It On Broadway" a couple times.

[ThE nEw KiD]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 1:40am

Debra Messing (sp) Grace from Will and Grace.

[MatureDignity]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:11am

Faith Prince
Joey Dudding (one of the Cagelles)

ETA: Carl Anderson, RIP. Updated On: 5/30/05 at 02:11 AM

[carymetorent2]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:22am

Jordan Gelber
Seth Rudetsky (Rhapsody in seth was totally about my school)

And on a different level,

Ed Burns.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 2:27am

Christy Tarr went to my high school (she has been in "Jekyll & Hyde", "Annie", and "The Who's Tommy"). She's married to J. Mark McVey, who I've learned (thanks to Gunn) was on the concept recording of "A Tale of Two Cities"

[tagiunagi]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:00am

thenewkid, what school do u go to if u dont mind telling or at least the city cuz i heart debra!!!

[Audryna]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 4:15am

Keala as Tracy in the National Tour of Hairspray went to my school Kahuku High in Hawaii.

The Divine Miss M went to a neighboring high school called Radford. Radford have an average music syllabus now, but Kahuku has a much better music syllabus, having won many national awards for the choir as well as marching band.

Or maybe I'm just bias :)

Updated On: 5/30/05 at 04:15 AM

[cabarethed]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 7:10am

Can it be the high school 5 minutes away from your own? In that case, John Tartaglia to the west, Colin Hanlon to the east.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 7:47am

Calista Flockhart, who was a New York stage performer before ALLY McBEAL.
Updated On: 8/9/05 at 07:47 AM

[trpguyy]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 7:54am

Not a Broadway performer, but Nicole Sullivan from MadTV, and now King of Queens and even won Celebrity Poker on Bravo. Our school is tiny, her graduating class (one of the larger ones) had 72 kids.

[Broadway_freak]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 8:39am

Michael Lachey- Was the Phantom on broadway and tour years ago.

Marcia Watkins- Was Cassie in A Chorus Line, and also had a substantial role in On Your Toes.

Tonya Linebrink- Performer in the STOMP tour.

Jim Price- Has done several shows before including Batboy, Les Miserables, and was in the OBC of The Civil War.