How do Broadway stars stay interested?- Page 2

[DAME]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:17pm

COCAINE

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:19pm

You said it, I didn't.


Vitamin B-12!

[DAME]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:54pm

And everyone wonders how Ethel never missed a show.

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:59pm

My cousin was in the original cast of "Dreamgirls" on Broadway. The stories she told me about the "deliveries" they and other shows got were amazing.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:04pm

Who's your cuz?

[DAME]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:06pm

Phylicia Rashad

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:08pm

Its a job and a damned well paid one for 3 hrs work a day!

[DAME]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:10pm

They work more than that. I would say that with pick up rehearsals and all the other stuff the do for the show it averages 6 hours a day. Also when your in a show it consumes your whole life. It is a job. Sometimes a very hard one.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:15pm

Thats the basics tho. Its still very few hours even with calls during the week. By the way ive been performing for 20 odd years and ive never complained.

[DAME]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:18pm

Yeah.. nothing to complain about.

[Rymes_With_Witch]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 2:33pm

I've never been on Broadway, but I have done plenty of shows and I can honestly say no two performances are exactly alike; so it's a different experience every time. Even in shows that I didn't particularly love, I still enjoyed performing because my castmates and I found ways to make it different and fun each night (not to say that you change the show; its still the same but the longer a show runs the more comfortable you get on stage and the easier it is to try different things and delve more into the part). And the audience definitely affects a performance...I'm also one of those people who lives for stage bloopers; even when its in my own show I think its pretty entertaining. So that keeps it interesting too. Thats not to say NO ONE gets bored after 800 performances but most performers remember they're doing what they love for a living and are happy to be doing it.

[sparkleplenty]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:05pm

Beautiful answer...I've heard this said similiary (or maybe that's word for word) somewhere... Can't quite place where...

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:13pm

I know someone who text messages on stage DURING the performance in a broadway show. and TRULY texts....not acting. because this person has a long time sitting on stage with not much to do. so that's what they do to keep interested. and then..the rest of the 2 hours ..they work. it's a job. it's called acting.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:16pm

meth matinees and e in the evening.

[DaneSaw]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:19pm

I think of Spring Awakening whenever someone mentions the concept of becoming uninterested in your job. Mostly because Spring Awakening's understudies (excluding the u/s for the adult men and women) are on-stage doing pretty much nothing for EVERY performance.

I had my eye on Gerard Canonico the last time I saw the show, sitting in his same seat as usual, and he was literally gazing at the ceiling and at his feet for much of the show. A friend of mine who knows Jennifer Damiano told me that she decided to leave (aside from the fact that she was offfered another role) because she was sick of sitting on-stage doing nothing 8 times a week.
Updated On: 1/16/08 at 04:19 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:20pm

meth is only advised for doing Gilbert and Sullivan papa.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:29pm

yes, but lsd is required for stoppard.