Diana Degarmo Leaving Hairspray

[dutch46mill2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 9:21am

Diana Degarmo is leaving Hairspray and her last performance is May 21. She then goes to rehearsal for the Brooklyn National Tour where she stars as Brooklyn.
PS She is off May 12 for a concert at the Rialto Centre for the Performing Arts in Atlanta

[PK2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:07am

She's really great in Hairspray. I was not her fan during American Idol but she won me over in Hairspray. She was my hightlight during my second visit at hairspray.

[PJ]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:07am

Wonderful.

And she's returning to the 'spray in the Fall after BKLYN.

[HughE2030]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:08am

Will she do the matinee on Saturday, as I plan to take my mother.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:11am

I agree, she's really fantastic in Hairspray!

[PJ]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:22am

I don't think Diana has missed a performance yet. And if she has, it's only one or two at the most.

[TabooWickedFan]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 10:52am

good for her. She was wonderful in Hairspray

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 11:00am

I will miss Diana in Hairspray, she was fantastic. I will be honest, I had my doubts after being a huge fan of Tracy Miller as Penny, but Diana impressed the heck out of me and then some. It's great she's getting these opportunities to showcase her talents.

[Becky]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:01pm

I hope people remember all this praise the next time they announce an "Idol" may be cast Goes to show you just never know!

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:17pm

If the fabulous Darlene Love ever leaves, they need to replace her with Ruben Studdard!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:19pm

Goodbye to Diana DeGarmo, and her splendid voice. She will never recover from what she's about to do.

[ABoyLikeThat]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:28pm

I think she's had a really good run. I hope to see her in the show before she leaves. Hopefully she'll be back in September to continue with the role again. She's had a good attendance record (she's missed maybe one or two performances due to being sick and she'll miss the one this Friday because of an out of town concert), but you can definitely see that she's dedicated to the show.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:50pm

She's bloody brilliant in the role.
Bravo!

[MeleeQ]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 3:19pm

I'm going to get murdered by a screaming mob of her stagedoor fangirls for this... but I think she overacts. I'm not saying she's bad in the role (her singing is fantastic), but she's not my favorite. With Penny's character voice/mannerisms/etc (more the voice than anything else), there's a very fine line between funny and just really over-done, and I think she has a tendancy to cross it. It started to grate on me in a couple scenes when I saw her this past weekend.

But she does have a voice on her, gotta give her that one. And she IS a very sweet person. But I miss Tracy.

[dutch46mill2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 3:34pm

Where she is this Friday

http://dianad.com/misc/Dianaflyer.pdf

[JerseyScoundrel]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 3:37pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=893997#2095405

[Mateo2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 5:06pm

I'm sorry that Diana is leaving "Hairspray" for now, but I cannot wait to see Diana in "Brooklyn". I'm sure she will be fantastic. As a side note, Diana is going to be Cosmo's singing voice on Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents Monday, May 19, at 8pm.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060508/nym134.html?.v=48

[Anakela]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 5:25pm

I'm going to get murdered by a screaming mob of her stagedoor fangirls for this... but I think she overacts. I'm not saying she's bad in the role (her singing is fantastic), but she's not my favorite. With Penny's character voice/mannerisms/etc (more the voice than anything else), there's a very fine line between funny and just really over-done, and I think she has a tendancy to cross it.

fwiw, I agree with you. Granted I'm a little biased since I *loved* Tracy Miller in the role, and I've never watched Idol so I didn't know of DeGarmo except for mostly what I've read here, but all I kept thinking when I watched her was "trying too hard" with the overacting.

I will not be part of the squeeing fangirl mob that murders you. :)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 8:03pm

Is she going to be there Saturday matinee- I'm going up there with a friend to see the show.

[Marie2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 8:25pm

Good luck to Diana. I am looking forward to her return in the fall and I hope her love of musical theatre isn't soured by a bad experience with Brooklyn (I'm not a Brooklyn hater, I'm on the fence. Don't stone me).