Broadway stars who did NOT go to College...

[Miss_Jenny_Wins]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 6:59pm

This may have been a topic already, but I searched and didn't come across any...but can anyone share what they know. Which successful broadway actors did not attend college? I know a lot of Hollywood Celebs didn't go, but I was curious about Broadway.
Updated On: 8/6/06 at 06:59 PM

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:16pm

well she's by no means a star
but a friend of mine auditioned for hairspray and got the understudy spot of tracy turnblad on the day she graduated two years ago.
she literally went straight from high school to broadway.

[TomMonster]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:21pm

Hehe. Stay in school kids; you're going to want something to fall back on when you realize that you can't make a dime working in the theatre!

Unless you like waiting tables...

[Hey You Guys]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:30pm

Correct me if I am wrong.....but I do believe....from what i heard...that Sutton Foster and Eden Espinosa are two that have not gone to College...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:34pm

Sutton Foster went to Carnegie Mellon... no?

I don't think Sherie Rene Scott went to college.

[Mythus]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:37pm

Sutton Foster definitely went to college, she met Christian Borle (her soon-to-be husband) there.

[noloversfool]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:40pm

Sutton, I think, attended college for a year. Stephanie J. Block went to college only for like a week before dropping out.

[Yero]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:40pm

She didn't stay long, I don't think.

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:41pm

Andy Karl dropped out of college. Katie Clarke got cast in Piazza two days after she graduated.

[Miss_Jenny_Wins]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:43pm

yeah i just read in an interview Sutton went for a year...does that really count tho? She technically dropped out.

[jsg03jd]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:47pm

Please define "did not go to college." Do you mean, "did not go to college", i.e., did not complete an undergraduate degree or did not attend at all?

If the former, then Lea Salonga is an example. She was a premed student when she was cast in MISS SAIGON. She was registered at Fordham a couple of years ago, and as far as I know, she publicly stated that she still intends to complete her undergraduate studies albeit not as a premed student.
Updated On: 8/6/06 at 07:47 PM

[Miss_Jenny_Wins]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:49pm

By "did not go"....I mean either never completed 4 years or just simply graduated High School and started auditioning and "made it"

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:52pm

Laura Benanti went to Broadway as a replacement Maria in The Sound of Music at age 18.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 7:58pm

Mylinda Hull never went to college.

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:08pm

Nathan Lane didn't go to college I believe.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:09pm

Actually, Laura was Liesel in Sound of Music before she was Maria, I believe.

[Yero]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:10pm

Nope, according to IBDB, Laura was a nun and in the ensemble, plus understudy for Maria before she replaced Rebecca.

Updated On: 8/6/06 at 08:10 PM

[TomMonster]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:11pm

Nathan, or Joe Lane, did Guys and Dolls in college. That's why he chose that name...

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:12pm

Sutton went to C-M for a year, then left school since she was cast in the National Tour of Les Mis. She continued to get work from that point on, so she did not finish school.

[emo_geek]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:18pm

I believe Stephanie J. Block did not

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:21pm

almostfamous- Katie still graduated from college.

[Popular]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:22pm

Steph had a scholarship for the last 2 years to Boston Conservatory. Was going to go to a JC for the first 2 before transfering but just stayed for 5 days before she decided to take work instead. It's actually pretty funny to hear her talk about it... she mentions it on one of the cast party episodes with Jim Caruso.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 8:25pm

TomMonster - I think it was a summer-stock production of G&D, but I could be mistaken.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 9:59pm

Nathan didn't go to college.

He said "College is for people who don't know what they want to do. I knew what I wanted to do."

[eve harrington2]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 10:04pm

Wanna Be...

I thought Sutton Foster's first tour was WILL ROGERS' FOLLIES. LES MIZ was much later. Maybe I am wrong. You are "Wanna Be A Foster" after all.
Updated On: 8/6/06 at 10:04 PM