Broadway performers who smoke

[bwayboi0101]

Broadway performers who smoke#1

Posted: 8/2/07 at 5:46pm

kinda curious. Who on Broadway are smokers?

[broadwaybelter]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#2

Posted: 8/2/07 at 5:48pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=861459#1284351 Updated On: 8/2/07 at 05:48 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#2

Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:38pm

I 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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[ahmelie]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#3

Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:54pm

My vocal teacher claims that everyone in theatre either smokes or knits. Everyone.

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

[GlindatheGood22]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#4

Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:56pm

Oh, 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]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#5

Posted: 8/2/07 at 6:58pm

Your vocal teacher needs to get out more and maybe meet a few people.

[ahmelie]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#6

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. -John Patrick Shanley

[SporkGoddess]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#7

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."

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#8

Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:38pm

Meh. 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.

[orangeskittles]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#9

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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Wanting life but never knowing how

[Ariella]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#10

Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:50pm

Yeah, he did say that. And someone I know ran into Idina just as she was about to light up.

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#11

Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:52pm

I don't remember him posting that, but then again, I didn't read everything he said here.

[ahmelie]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#12

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?

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#13

Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:53pm

Alcohol dries out the vocal chords.

[AC126748]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#14

Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:54pm

Edward 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

[antiandrewx]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#15

Posted: 8/2/07 at 7:56pm

Idina was smoking at RENT 10.

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#16

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:02pm

*sigh* She'd solve a lot of her voice problems. If only...

[orangeskittles]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#17

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:02pm

For anyone that needs a credible confirmation

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Wanting life but never knowing how

[millie_dillmount]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#18

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:09pm

Maureen Moore

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Gingersnap2]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#19

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:14pm

Drew 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."

[Raviolisun]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#20

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:18pm

Anthony Rapp's screenname was "Whiteboy Spice"? Hahaha.

I've heard Sherie Rene Scott smokes.

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

[COOOOLkid]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#21

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:24pm

I 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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[bertandrew2]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#22

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]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#23

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:40pm

Cheyenne Jackson! There is one SMOKIN' Broadway performer!

[theaterkid1015]

re: Broadway performers who smoke#24

Posted: 8/2/07 at 10:51pm

bert, 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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