Posted: 8/10/15 at 4:13am
How do famous people get involved in a Broadway show? If Meryl Streep wanted to do a Broadway show, would her agents release a statement saying "Meryl Streep wants to do a Broadway show."?
Posted: 8/10/15 at 4:21am
Like most of us, they find these roles through the classifieds in the New York Times.
Posted: 8/10/15 at 5:25am
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Updated On: 8/10/15 at 05:25 AM
Posted: 8/10/15 at 7:06am
Come on guys, Phillypinto asked a reasonable question. I, too, would be interested to know the answer.
Although there is a "miscellaneous" board, this is a Broadway question.
Suggestion: Let's start a thread called "Broadway Questions." Each poster should change the subject line to make clear what the question is that's being addressed, and whether it's a new question, an answer, or further comment by the OP or others on a previous question.
Tech folks, would that work? List contributors, any objections?
Audrey
Posted: 8/10/15 at 7:26am
It's a two way street. Producers contact big stars' "people" with suggestions. Often.
Likewise, their "people" can and do put out the message their client is open.
It's pretty easy for important people to contact other important people.
It's really not rocket science.
Posted: 8/10/15 at 10:06am
Often, such aspirations are communicated by stars directly to producers that they know or are acquainted with, especially when they see each other at social or other events. (This is called networking, and just about everyone in the business does this as a way of staying in the mix.) Other times, someone the actor knows (their agent, manager, "people" or just a friend) will do the communicating. It would never be done by press release, although sometimes an actor will say something like that in an interview etc and a producer will react by contacting the actor.
Posted: 8/11/15 at 6:03pm
oh thank you i didn't know that
Posted: 8/11/15 at 8:12pm
It's too bad no famous people who do Broadway never do interviews with the press where they explain the origin of them coming to do a particular show...
Posted: 8/11/15 at 8:46pm
Well, it could be as simple as Jake Gyllenhaal hearing about Ellen Greene doing the Alan Menken tribute of "Little Shop Of Horrors" at Encores and just asked if he could be in it.
Posted: 8/11/15 at 10:09pm
"Well, it could be as simple as Jake Gyllenhaal hearing about Ellen Greene doing the Alan Menken tribute of "Little Shop Of Horrors" at Encores and just asked if he could be in it."
Again, how actors end up landing projects is almost never hard to find.
As for Jake, he explains exactly what happened here:
Updated On: 8/11/15 at 10:09 PM
Posted: 8/11/15 at 11:27pm
Playwright David Mamet approached James Spader directly about playing the lead in RACE.
