Karen Olivo opens up about her injury

[adamgreer]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#1

Posted: 10/7/10 at 7:24pm

...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

[dramamama611]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#2

Posted: 10/7/10 at 8:04pm

Nice to finally hear her address the things she has.

Maybe they were just trying to find ANY way to get her back on the stage -- but I hear ya!

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[After Eight]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#2

Posted: 10/7/10 at 9:23pm

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.

[legally_popular]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#3

Posted: 10/7/10 at 10:05pm

Great article. I love her! I wish she could close out West Side Story too, but I guess I'll just have to wait 'til she's back onstage again in something else.

[muscle23ftl]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#4

Posted: 10/8/10 at 4:48am

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!

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[binau]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#5

Posted: 10/8/10 at 5:06am

I'd never have the nerve to approach her but what night/day was this; should she have been performing :P?

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[Weez]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#6

Posted: 10/8/10 at 5:22am

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

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

[muscle23ftl]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#7

Posted: 10/8/10 at 11:46am

It was before the injury, but maybe she had that night off and it was her arrangement with the company of WSS, it's really none of our business what she decides to do with her personal life.

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[LizzieCurry]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#8

Posted: 10/8/10 at 12:21pm

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

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

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[PalJoey]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#9

Posted: 10/8/10 at 1:45pm

I am shocked that they were willing to alter the already simplified choreography for her even further.

I'm not.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#10

Posted: 10/8/10 at 4:00pm

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

[ljay889]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#11

Posted: 10/8/10 at 4:03pm

Please find me where Laurents publicly chastised or even mentioned Olivo's absences.

???

[Gothampc]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#12

Posted: 10/8/10 at 4:07pm

Where was all this sympathy when Jeremy Piven ate fish?

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[PalJoey]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#13

Posted: 10/8/10 at 5:16pm

I wouldn't want to see Jeremy Piven dance "America," simplified choreography or no simplified choreography.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#14

Posted: 10/8/10 at 7:22pm

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

[beautywickedlover]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#15

Posted: 10/27/10 at 3:07pm

I'm bumping this thread to ask a question. I know it's extremlely unlikely, but do you think she will reprise the role in the Los Angeles tour stop like Lin-Manuel Miranda did in "In the Heights?"

[CurtainPullDowner]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#16

Posted: 10/27/10 at 4:25pm

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

[TheatreFan4]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#17

Posted: 10/27/10 at 4:31pm

Guuurrrlll you stupid.

[Unknown User]

Karen Olivo opens up about her injury#18

Posted: 10/27/10 at 4:54pm

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