Broadway performers who smoke — Page 2

I know what Idina smokes.

Only the word around town is she's not the only one who likes to light it up.

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Foster, there were some pictures on BWW and comments about her and taye at Rent10 and what they had been smoking due to their eyes. The mods saw fit to remove the comments. Plus there is an interview on Youtube from the premier of Stella Got Her... Where she and Taye look LIT!

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I vowed to myself that I would never EVER smoke after I saw Les Miz, and saw Daphne Rubin-Vega smoking with a couple fiends after she signed autographs at the stage door... If smoking raveges one's voice like that, I NEVER get why singer do it... I'm a knitter...

ETA: but, hey its the smoker's choice, and I'm not the kind of person to stop others doing what they want as long it it doesn't bither me...

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Updated On: 8/3/07 at 02:11 AM

I have known and heard of a few. Most do it either to change their voice or to avoid eating. It can ease anxiety for a short while. Backfires when you get addicted and then makes the problem worse.

It's a gamble with your health but some people have no trouble with it, except after paying the price for a pack of cigarettes. It should be expensive because of the high health risk, trash pick-up. Other than that though, I have seen smokers really try not to bother those who don't and only a few really make a stink about not being able to smoke in Bars and enclosed Areas. Yet no one makes anyone smoke, more than once or twice, so it is a choice.

I don't care, as long as I don't have to pay for their health insurance and they don't smoke up the room so I can't breathe. It is a very difficult habit to break. Everyone I have grown up around who smoked either quit or died. After seeing a really great Woman suffer and die of emphysema, I was convinced it wasn't for me. At least she went out on a train. It was all in her mind and quite a trip but I rather suffer and die another way.

I don't know about Idina and Taye but if you ask me Lauren Pritchard is either drunk or high in this interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzSW2bZfwwM

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It relaxes them because they're addicted to it. Feeling the need for another fix, and then feeding that desire, would OF COURSE relaxe them.

It may be true that it gives them confidence but if given the choice between being insecure or dead what would you pick?

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Sandra DeNise from the Jersey Boys Tour smoke.

Updated On: 8/3/07 at 01:42 PM

is fellatio...i.e. deep throating bad for your singing voice?

Just wondering.

Yes. That's why there are no straight females or gay men in Broadway shows.

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I guess whether they smoke or not it is their choice. As with drinking or others. Just as long as they dont then start blaming their smoking for any vocal problems or illness they develop, or expect others to pay their insurance or to keep them in breath freshener - especially when attending the theater and in close proximity of non-smokers.

What I cannot abide are smokers who then moan because they have very little money! Serve them right totally.

So if they want to smoke, let them but let them accept any consequences that might occur.

If the alternative to a cigarette is jittery, sweaty, crazy withdrawal symptoms...OF COURSE the cigarette will relax you.

Yeah. Hmmm...I guess that's why there are smokers who manage to quit eventually. Because SUDDENLY it must become their choice, right? Suddenly they have the choice to say "I'm going to suck it up and deal with withdrawal" or "I'm going to ween myself off."