Karen Olivo opens up about her injury

...to broadway.com.

I thought she was wonderful in the show, deserved her Tony, and I wished she could have returned to close it out.

However, I am shocked that they were willing to alter the already simplified choreogratphy for her even further. What was the character going to do? Stand in place and wave her arms around?

Karen Olivo opens up to broadway.com

Updated On: 10/7/10 at 07:24 PM

A very interesting interview. I wish posters who immediately rip into performers for missing performances would stop and think that maybe there are legitimate reasons for these absences. Though I do understand the frustration of not seeing someone one was hoping and paying to see.

I love her. I am a fan of her as an artist and as a person.
I remember when I saw Fela! She was in the audience and I was with another BWWer and when I told him she was in the audience, he wanted to come up to her and tell her she should be doing WSS that night instead. That shows how crazy some of the people on this board are. You need help, you know who you are!

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If she was injured at the time, then of course she shouldn't have been performing. Don't be misled by muscle's friend's sense of entitlement! Performers are not merely dancing monkeys put on this earth to entertain us even if it kills them! :P

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The difference in reaction between here and ATC is kinda remarkable.

http://talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1906422

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There's also the point that if a real trained dancer had been cast in the first place, perhaps she would have healed faster. Every injury is different but trained dancers seem much more resilliant than those untrained, even Christine Applegate, who's no Anne Reinking, got back on her feet quickly.
Also she mentions friction backstage but smartly leaves Laurents name out, who publicly chastised her for missing performances before her injury, there is a whif of Bernanti to this story.
That alone would be incentive not to want to get back to work.
Luckily she was able to work during her recovery, she was quite good on THE GOOD WIFE. I hope she recovers fully and can put her bittersweet WSS experience behind her.

Updated On: 10/8/10 at 04:00 PM

Where was all this sympathy when Jeremy Piven ate fish?

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I wouldn't want to see Jeremy Piven eat fish!

I doubt we will ever see Ms. Olivo in a production of WSS ever again.
Amen.

Oh Please. Ethel Merman lost a foot in a threshing accident and was onstage THAT NIGHT in "Something for the Boys."