Broadway voices used in commercials

#1

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/18/10 at 12:52pm

I keep hearing Broadway performers singing songs in commercials. Maybe it is my selective perception and I would just like to believe Broadway actors are getting supplemental income but the voices sound eerily familiar.

So far, I believe I have heard Patina Miller singing "At Last" in a Maybelline commercial and Heidi Blickenstaff singing in an Airwick commercial. I believe Heidi's song was called "When Our Love Was New."

Can anyone confirm or deny this? Also, any other commercials or television shows that feature Broadway-related performers would be awesome to hear about.

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#2

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/18/10 at 5:46pm

Shoshana Bean (Wicked) singing in a Tide Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BRi4mdnKYE&feature=related

Jonathan Root's (The Toxic Avenger) radio voice overs - http://www.jonathan-root.com/voice.php

#3

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/18/10 at 7:25pm

Megan Mullally does the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter ones

#4

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/18/10 at 8:24pm

Donna Murphy did a paint v.o. commercial.

#5

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/18/10 at 9:22pm

Wasn't Andy Karl Dulce the dog? Someone once said that here but I wasn't able to really confirm it.

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#6

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/18/10 at 9:44pm

Philip Bosco does some I think

#7

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/18/10 at 11:40pm

Daphne Rubin-Vega does a couple. Loreal, Aquafresh.

#8

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/19/10 at 10:55am

Brian d'Arcy James: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOydQFJdx1k

#9

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 11/19/10 at 9:22pm

Oh, shiz! That's Brian d'Arcy James?! Love it.

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#10

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/22/11 at 10:03pm

I just a Christopher Sieber in a Chobani yogurt commercial.

#11

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/23/11 at 5:19am

Hugh Jackman uses his Broadway dancing and acting chops to endorse Lipton Ice Tea.

http://www.youtube.com/user/liptonicet

Updated On: 2/23/11 at 05:19 AM

#12

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/23/11 at 5:25am

And from last year, also for Lipton Ice Tea --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ze0dJFd-M

Updated On: 2/23/11 at 05:25 AM

#13

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/23/11 at 4:08pm

Well not so much a commercial, but Van Hughes was (still is?) the voice between the commercial breaks on Nickelodeon.

#14

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/23/11 at 4:28pm

Montego Glover has done a whole lot of VO's - most notably shes the voice in the Charmin Commercials.

#15

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/23/11 at 6:00pm

Greg Jabara has done a commercial or two for The Olive Garden. I believe that there was an interview with him at some point where he spoke about going there with his family and, because he was in the commercial the staff there gave them free desert.

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#16

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/24/11 at 1:59pm

Thank you for confirming that it is Christopher Sieber in that Chobani yogurt commercial! I wasn't really paying attention when the ad came on, and he's on for such a short period of time, that I did a double-take, and certainly thought it was him, but wasn't sure.

#17

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/25/11 at 10:33am

Sarah Hyland has an Olive Garden commercial running now.

And Kristin Chenoweth is in a singing-and-dancing Mohegan Sun commercial that has been running for years. I still stop to watch it whenever it comes on.

And Catherine-Zeta Jones has done tons of commercials for makeup, cell phone plans, who knows what all, and she's a *Tony winner*! She's *so* Broadway. ::cough::

#18

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/25/11 at 2:06pm

Billy Crudup in the Visa commercials. Priceless.

#19

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/26/11 at 11:07pm

Betsy Wolfe (Yoplait) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtPeI7oifuc&NR=1

*behind the scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TleHdV_HGAk

Mitch Jarvis (Keystone Light) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZHh3eyw6A

#20

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 2/27/11 at 12:38am

Sharona D'Ornellas (In The Heights): Optimum Triple Play -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-xwbqUcdaA&feature=related

She's the one holding the torch and jumps off the big rock.

#21

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 4/7/11 at 5:32pm

Just saw Janet Dacal in a Multigrain Cherrios Commercial. She was doing some yoga exercises thinking about losing weight for summer.

#22

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 4/7/11 at 9:48pm

KylieS, I'm almost 100% positive that it isn't Cheno in the Mohegan commercial.

#23

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 4/7/11 at 10:49pm

This blog has a list of them if you click on the "commercial" tag: http://www.stage-notes.com/search/label/commercials

Julia Murney for Red Lobster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc0Fvs4oHn0

Updated On: 4/7/11 at 10:49 PM

#24

Broadway voices used in commercials

Posted: 4/8/11 at 8:44am

Jason Graae (sp?)was the voice of the Lucky Charms leprecaun at one time, and Faith Prince was the voice of the "Hey, Culligan Man!" lady.

Maybe Greg Jabara's fondness for The Olive Garden is the reason he has high blood pressure AND high cholesterol (according to the commercial).