Broadway performers who smoke
Broadway performers who smoke
bwayboi0101
Understudy Joined: 11/25/04
#1Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 5:46pmkinda curious. Who on Broadway are smokers?
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#2re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 5:48pmhttps://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=861459#1284351 Updated On: 8/2/07 at 05:48 PM
#2re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:38pmI think Idina smoked for a while but she quit a few years ago. At least that's what I read. And if those ridiculous rumors about smoking being good for your voice are true, look at it this way: what good will your voice do you if you're dead?
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#3re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:54pmMy vocal teacher claims that everyone in theatre either smokes or knits. Everyone.
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#4re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:56pmOh, and we all know how fast knitting can kill you! You can easily impale yourself on one of the needles!
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postergirl
Leading Actor Joined: 3/13/07
#5re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:58pmYour vocal teacher needs to get out more and maybe meet a few people.
#6re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:05pm
I've found that smoking tobacco doesn't affect my voice as much as pot does.
And once I smoked that flavoured tobacco **** out of a hooka, and my voice was screwed up for literally 5 days.
I avoid it all though, because no smoking has affected my voice in a positive way.
Gneh... maybe I should take up knitting.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
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SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#7re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:15pm
Marijuana smoke is just as bad as cigarette smoke, if not worse.
Does that person from the smoking thread still want to know how smoking affects the brain? I'm a psychopharmacology nerd and I love explaining things like this!
Anyway, on-topic, most opera singers I know call smoking "the kiss of death."
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BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#8re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:38pmMeh. I've never heard from a remotely credible source that Idina is a smoker. All I've ever heard is people say "I heard she smokes" or "My friend heard she smokes," or "My friend knows someone who saw her smoking." I remember she mentioned once in an interview that she had a few cigarettes when she was meeting Colin Farrell for Ask the Dust, which leads me to believe she may do it socially on occasion. But she's said she doesn't smoke or drink when in shows.
#9re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:49pm
"I've never heard from a remotely credible source that Idina is a smoker."
Um, Anthony Rapp? When he very clearly stated in a post here on BWW that of the movie cast, he and Tracie are the only ones that don't smoke?
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Ariella
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#10re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:50pmYeah, he did say that. And someone I know ran into Idina just as she was about to light up.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#11re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:52pmI don't remember him posting that, but then again, I didn't read everything he said here.
#12re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:52pm
I still don't understand how drinking affects the voice. I was recently reading an interview with Joan Lader and she spoke of drinking as being dangerous for the voice and I've heard other people say they don't drink. But I've never felt that drinking affected my voice at all and I don't understand how it could.
Anyone care to explain?
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BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#14re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:54pmEdward Hibbert. He asked me for a light during intermission at HIGH FIDELITY.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#16re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:02pm*sigh* She'd solve a lot of her voice problems. If only...
#17re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:02pm
For anyone that needs a credible confirmation
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#18re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:09pmMaureen Moore
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#19re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:14pmDrew Sarich smokes. I used to watch some of his fans ask him for a light or keep track of which conveniences store he'd stop at for cigarettes during "Lestat."
#20re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:18pm
Anthony Rapp's screenname was "Whiteboy Spice"? Hahaha.
I've heard Sherie Rene Scott smokes.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#21re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:24pmI know this is not Broadway, but I heard that some actresses who play male roles in Takarazuka (composed of all-female performers in Japan) smoke to get make their voice sound deeper.
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#22re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:34pm
WHICH BDWAY PERFORMERS EAT BEEF JERKY?
WHICH BDWAY PERFORMERS HAVE A FOOT FETISH?
WHICH BDWAY PERFORMERS SLEEP ON 800 THREAD COUNT SHEETS?
WHO CARES???
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#23re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:40pmCheyenne Jackson! There is one SMOKIN' Broadway performer!
#24re: Broadway performers who smoke
Posted: 8/2/07 at 10:51pmbert, I care. How will I ever get to Broadway if I don't know what thread count I'm supposed to sleep on?!!
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