Dear Hunter Foster, Meredith Patterson, Chris Sieber and Anyone Else With Internet Access — Page 12

tappingjeff, I think it's great that you are trying to see "both sides" of this, but I fear it has snowballed into something much larger. When these Broadway stars started attacking other actors, this also became a question of grace and decorum. When these Broadway stars started deleting the offending comments and in some cases denied making them, this also became an issue of integrity.

Once you start lying, you lose any benefit of the doubt the rest of us might have been giving you. I know my mother didn't raise me that way and I certainly didn't raise my sweet boy Whiteshirt that way.

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Exactly, whiteshirtsmom. I totally agree with you. If they had convictions and stood by them, I'd respect that. However, they (Hunter, Jen, Sieber, and Patterson) were just mean and lame and then started deleting comments they made b/c they knew they were just plain old mean. Not even constructive or educated, just mean and spiteful.

Patterson was among the worst-telling tales out of school, basically saying to any actor she ever works with in the future "dont trust me, Im a catty blabbermouth."

All four of those actors are dead to me and I'll never support them directly again. If they happen to be in something with an actor I respect, then I'll suck it up and go. If it's them solo forget about it.

Hunter and Jen may be the king and queen of the NYC theatre prom, but they are big fish in a small pond and piranhas at that. Karma is a bitch.

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Well I think Hunter and Jen know a lot of people and are certainly well connected since they have been working in the theatre scene for so long. Whether or not they are actually liked or respected I do not know, but they certainly are well known after years in the community.

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Fighting on there is crazy, i love thead where he denied he did anything wrong or said anything and said i was been personal about him, then someone posted his facebook remarks etc,bless him

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Here we go again...somehow my previous post ended up in no-man's land:

...I just wish Broadway itself wasn't such a commercial business and maybe we could have high quality shows that run on artistry, not on marquee names or popular franchises....but that day is still so far away.

Oh, for God's sake. What is this Utopian vision of Broadway that people believe should exist? Broadway IS commercial. Broadway has always looked to marquee names as a marketing tool for many of its shows. Broadway has also always contained shows ofe varying degrees of artistry, entertainment, and commercialism. The demographic has shifted, international tourism increased, the art has evolved and trends have shifted and changed.

The absence of marquee names, franchises and commercial ploys do not guarantee a higher quality of artistry just as the inclusion of any of them automatically denote the absence of artistry. If Broadway had never jumped on the bandwagon of stylistic trends and fads, it never would have evolved past the point of operettas, burlesque and Vaudeville. Show Boat would have been a bizarre fluke or Oklahoma would have been the odd anomaly. Instead, the response was "Let's see if we can do that, too!" and the race was on to make lightning strike as many times as possible. It's the same race today and when something different works, more of the same will naturally follow.

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I never personally attacked anyone and never would.

Talk about twisted!

s. Please please stop personally attacking anyone for having an opinion.

That's the new thing with them. They are being "attacked" for their "opinions."

I was expecting these kinds of reactions last Monday, but better late than never!

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Everybody knows how vocal i have been about this whole thing and i stand by my comments that attacks of any sort by any actors to another on a forum that can be seen by many is silly and unattractive.

Even with all this i would say that as much as i disagree with that, and i disagree with all they believe about Celebs taking over Broadway and the Tony’s etc, i don’t think anybody should personally bad mouth or attack them in a personal way, that’s everything we are saying is wrong.

We can be annoyed they have said/done but it should never get personal. Foster/ Sieber etc will always have great talent and work hard for Broadway and that should continue, be angry at what they have said, that’s fine, that’s our right but getting personal is not the answer, we just end up contradicting ourselves then.

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I dont think its nesccery, i think one of her comments are on there already. I don't think it needs to be seen again, everyone knows already.

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Love how they are casting themselves as the victims.

I wonder if Jason Bennett is coaching them.

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Billy Smith is totally Hunter Foster, this just gets better and better!

Someone just posted the offending paragraph of Patterson's blog post on the group... I'M DYING! What a hilarious saga. Wonder how she will try to spin her way out of this now that her post is there VERBATIM..

I just posted this after Meredith's post.

"Ms. Patterson, you wrote the following on your blog before you deleted it and made the blog private.

"Denzel started on Broadway, and Catherine was Peggy Sawyer in London at the age of 17. But...from the way she acted you would never know it. Denzel I love, but come on, he couldn't remember who to thank? The name of the award? Jeez. And Catherine... See More (who I heard smokes like chimney backstage...I have sources) is constantly out of the show, and constantly has no voice won Best Actress? Really? Beating out the amazing Broadway vets and professionals Kate Baldwin and Montego Glover. And the weirdest thing.....as she won the award, she turned to her husband Michael Douglas in shock...not sure what she's saying but it caused controversy among our community that the award was "bought for her by Michael". I know. Shock! Well, I'm the most naive person when it comes to awards. I think the best of the best win and that's how it is. The best of the best get the role and that's how it is. Sadly, we know that's not how the world works."

You can deny saying this, but there's proof. I didn't doctor this or try to make you look bad. Here's the thing, I really admire you as a performer, and Hunter, Jen, and all of the other actors posting in this group. I am not trying to viciously attack or hurt you. I am just, along with many of the other people in this group, asking you own up to saying these things. I would have so much respect for you as a person if you were willing to say, "I wrote this, and I stand by it." I may not agree with you, but I would respect it. I think what I, and many of the others, are so frustrated about is all of you denying saying these things. I do support a lot of what this group stands for. What I don't support is people lying and trying to save face. You can save face by stepping up and telling the truth. This post is probably going to be deleted, but I just wanted to get this out."