God Save Our Singers From Soaps
God Save Our Singers From Soaps
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
God Save Our Singers From Soaps#0
Posted: 11/2/06 at 4:23pm
May those grimy soap operas keep their hands off our magnificent Broadway singers!
I don't mind if they go off for six weeks to shoot a film for a million dollars, even if it's not an art film, or if they guest on a TV drama series...
But keep them out of slimy soaps, free of rolling from bed to bed in sleazy two-bit plots!
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#1
Posted: 11/2/06 at 4:40pmY'know Andrea McArdle was on some soap operas. I don't remember what they were... but I know she was in some.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#2
Posted: 11/2/06 at 4:53pmIn the spirit of election season, I am mounting a campaign.
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#3
Posted: 11/2/06 at 4:57pmI'm sure the "singers" will be thrilled that you're campaigning to keep them from getting those jobs - plenty of other people will take them, anyway.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#5
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:02pm
Done and done.
My own thread
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#6
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:10pmBill Hayes and Suzanne Rogers never truly escaped the clutches of Days Of Our Lives, and Gloria Loring was never the same again.
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#7
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:11pm
But she lived a fine life off that sitcom theme, did Miss Gloria Loring.
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#8
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:17pm
I had to look that up. I had no idea she helped write the themes to The Facts of Life and Different Strokes. The last time I heard anything from her was a production of "Anything Goes" in Galveston.
And Suzanne Rogers does the best "blehhhhh" ever on a "Follies" recording.
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#9
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:20pmDon't really see what is wrong with being employed. Most of them can do both a soap and a show. So I really don't see what the problem is. Unless you want to stunt their careers and prevent them from earning a living. While we're at it, let's stop Kristin Chenoweth from doing concerts and movies! Yes boo to soap operas indeed!
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#10
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:25pmpaychecks from live theatre pale in comparison to that of industrials and soap operas. They would be stupid not to try to make more money from what they love to do.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#11
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:26pm
Lord keep our songbirds in the money
So onstage they can sing, be funny
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#12
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:33pmI have a friend who just turned down a role in a Broadway musical, because he believes his story-line in the soap, on which he appears, is going to become major; and, as much as he wants to do a Broadway show, he's afraid it will impact his ability to do the soap.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#13
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:35pm
Lilias White, blow ye no bubble
Or Broadway'd be bereft, in trouble!
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#14
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:38pm
There once was a woman named Crawford
Who'd take any role she was offered
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#15
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:44pm
.....she tried for a soap,
but reached the end of her rope,
because she looked too much like Peter Lawford
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#16
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:46pmThe great tragedy of Gloria Loring was her divorce from Alan Thicke, thus ending a great songwriting duo.
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#17
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:47pm
Bravo, Pippin! I couldn't think of an ending because I had no other rhyming words for Crawford.
And Ourtime, I think any woman would consider a divorce from Alan Thicke anything but a tragedy.
Updated On: 11/2/06 at 05:47 PM
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#18
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:50pm
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#19
Posted: 11/2/06 at 5:52pmwell, I'm not thinking of the tragedy for her. I'm only thinking of myself, of course, like usual.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#20
Posted: 11/2/06 at 11:36pm
d'Arcy James, think ye not of detergent
Your career let it not be convergent
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#21
Posted: 11/3/06 at 9:29amIf singers want to supplement their musical income, let them work at Banana Republic, I say. Fie on the soaps.
Stand-by Joined: 10/11/04
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#22
Posted: 11/3/06 at 9:43am
why should we save them?
They make MONEY on soaps, and also become more marketable in the Broadway market because of it. People on soaps are seen by millions of people each week (mostly middle aged women) and oddly enough thats one of the larger demographics who purchases Broadway tickets.
Also, look at some one like Kathy Brier. Now because of the Christmas CD ABC is doing she'll be on two CDs that she otherwise wouldn't have been on. (this new one and the hurricane katrina benefit one) I think any theater actor would be crazy to turn down a job that would let them be seen by millions and then possibly be able to bring in a higher salary for their Broadway performances.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#23
Posted: 11/3/06 at 10:43am
Rath at least seems to be catching on.
Get with the program, Parker Russell.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
re: God Save Our Singers From Soaps#24
Posted: 11/3/06 at 10:58am
I was thinking that Eden Riegel might be good as Elphaba. I don't know how broad her range is, but I know she sang in The Prince of Egypt and was in Les Mis when she was a kid.
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