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#101

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/16/07 at 11:43pm

Don't come to Broadway. Stay in Cali and write for a sitcom!! you're too funny for Broadway.....I really love the post about playing Motel in Fiddler. Priceless!!!
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#103

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/16/07 at 11:58pm

Lord Boxington?

That is absolutely fabulous.

And this guy is totally real. He was a great Herr Zeller in a production of "The Sound of Music" that I saw a few years ago.
#104

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:02am

You do realize that it is almost impossible to have a successful career on Broadway. The way the chain usually works is that you have to do Off-Broadway first (or if your really talented, a Broadway Chorus) for a while just to get your name out. Then, you could be an understudy for a while. Lastly, if you are AMAZING, you get the opportunity to star in a show.

And no, your agent can't just make it so that YOU don't have to wait in line while everyone else does. Maybe if you're the equivalent of Chita Rivera or Julie Andrews, but it takes a lot of HARD WORK to get to that point. And no, college productions don't count as a lot of hard work. Take that, and do it three or more times over.

Not trying to be negative, just telling the truth.
#107

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:07am

I can't sing for sh*t, y'all, but I'm gonna be on Broadway next week.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
#108

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:13am

Why is this thread so long?!

Whoops, I contributed.
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#110

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 2:12am

Wow...so NAIVE and STUPID.

You're comparing/thinking "i'm gonna be an actor on broadway" to "i'm gonna be a teacher."

The correct turn should've been I want to audition for broadway or I dream about being on broadway. You don't just wake up one day and go, yup that's it..i'm gonna be on broadway!!! If that's the way you think my friend you're in for a rude wake up call. Its by far the most heartbreaking, cruel, frustrating, HARD, not for everybody career. That's why you have to train years and years to prepare yourself for the hard blows you will eventually encounter. Oh and sidenote, even some of the most talented unknowns don't make it. Actors are out of a job 90-99% out of the time.

Pull your head out of your ass.

I'm sorry to sound so forward and blunt but its people like this that piss me off.
"We need people not to come to Broadway shows wearing shorts and flip-flops. We are working hard up here folks. Find a pair of socks."-Joanna Gleason "I hear L. Ron Hubbard is gonna blow the ladies...and all that jazz! C'mon babe! We're gonna unicorn hug, I bought some NyQuil down....at Wal-Mart?!"-Bebe Neuwirth singing ATJ to Musical Mad Libs at DQYNJ :)

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 02:12 AM

#111

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 5:11am

You'll all be sorry when I'm up there winning my 10th Tony
>> Award.

I am already kind of sorry I followed the thread. I took one look at that mug and I immediately sent a copy of it straight to Mel Brooks! Why waste all of that talented BS on Broadway? This guy is going straight to the top!

I mean Stockton!! In ten minutes I can be there and gone, it's really that big! If you blink, I swear, you already missed the exit!

Oh well. I just don't know how Hollywood missed him? Too busy doing stunt work for Stockton I suppose. Unfortunately, too boring to even get stuff like Friday the 13th to shoot there I'm afraid. Unless of course they need a couple of trees or branches for the set.

This guy. He just has to come and post here because we all know this is where all of the big Broadway Producers come to chill out. Mostly though to jack our threads and call us names behind our backs for dissing their shows but the big secret is, they are really lurking around, checking our avatars looking for the next big chum..I mean star to sucker into one of their huge never ending contracts!

I say then, Party On Kevin. If I lived in Stockton, I know I would have to come here at least once in awhile to just pretend I am out of the booneys now and then. Let us know though when you make it to Sacra-tomato though! Or maybe thats too kiddie for you. Better run off to San Francisco. I hear from the inside, everyone who graduates here is heading for the big Apple, so surely you can get a lead in The Color Purple! How well do you play ethnic parts? Doesn't matter! This guy has it all. I'll make a note to email Oprah too!

The guy's got star written all over him. I'll be right there buddy, clapping heartily but only after you win that tenth Tony. I have my standards too! I may have to come back from the Grave to do it but I promise you, I'll be there. Just listen for the rattling chains and that I promise you, will be me!
#112

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:00pm

Oh my! It's the next day and there are STILL suckers here who believe this guy's for real. Sad.
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#113

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:11pm

Yes, we'd all be jealous of your stupidity.

If it were real.
A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 12:11 PM

#117

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:21pm

Oh totally. May (fake) ignorance be bliss.

My nonexistant acting aspirations SCREAM with pain in your direction.
A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 12:21 PM

#119

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:27pm

Okay!

Man, hot, talented AND wise! What a catch.
A work of art is an invitation to love.

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 12:27 PM

#120

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:35pm

Because even if you're already talented, lessons improve on your talent and good teachers also teach you how you how to behave in a professional environment.

Speaking honestly and not trying to be hurtful, your attitude right now will really turn people off.There's a fine line between confidence and cockiness. Confidence is quiet. Cockiness is a loud pain in the ass that people can smell from a mile away.

Humility is a great great thing. You may just have to learn it the hard way though.
#121

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:47pm

There's one chick on here who obviously doesn't know how to act cause she says that shes doing off Broadway and regional....why would anyone want to do that?

Whoo, I can't act! Yay!!

Em, stop being jealous. It's not nice. :-P

When I come to New York after I graduate from college, I'll talk to the producers of MARY POPPINS and tell them I am perfect for Bert's part. I have the movie and have seen it a lot of times.

Well, if that's the standard, I MUST be next in line to play Mary Poppins herself. Let's both go visit the producers when you graduate and tell them that we've seen the movie so many times that we are obviously right for the part. Brilliant.

This is just the kind of pick me up I needed this morning, thanks. re: How much do actors make on Broadway?
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Updated On: 11/17/07 at 12:47 PM

#123

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:49pm

Threads like this are another example of why strikes are bad.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#124

re: How much do actors make on Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:51pm

Threads like this are another example of why strikes are bad.

I don't know, I'm enjoying myself. We probably would have gotten this without the strike, anyway.
http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

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