Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
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#2Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 2:55pm
……so anyway….
#3Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:01pm
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
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#4Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:06pm
‘The most hurtful thing,’ said the former Broadway star, ‘was that people found out this one thing about me—and nothing else in my character or my work mattered anymore. And no one defended me.’
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#5Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:09pm
Keep that fabulous career you've established down South going, babe!
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#6Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:14pm
Her career was damaged because it became painfully clear that her values didn't align with the community because she supports repugnant racists, misogynists and anti-LGBTQ politicians.
cope and seethe, cupcakkke.
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#7Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:20pm
Laura Osnes looked at the state of the country of right now and really said, “Yes, now is the time to open old wounds, act like a martyr, and try for a comeback. Get Bari Weiss on the phone.”
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 11/18/25 at 03:20 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#8Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:30pm
I don't really find myself that sympathetic for Laura Osnes (especially when there are people we should be way more sympathetic for, i.e. Nick Cordero's family). However, I do feel kind of bad that the private professional matter of her dropping out of the show got plastered all over the front page of the New York Post, especially when the claims of drama with her castmates was untrue.
Vaccine mandates aren't required for anything anymore. If she had just denied the story and called it a "scheduling issue", she'd be back on Broadway today.
#9Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:43pm
It’s very much a “woe is me/seeking redemption” piece, and I understand that this choice she made was the death knell for her career.
However, more pointedly, the theatre community lost SO many people during and due to the pandemic, including Nick Cordero, Mark Blum, Adam Schlesinger and Terrence McNally - and so the optics of it, personal choice or not, were that Laura did not care to get something that could protect her and her costars when many people didn’t even have a chance before it killed them. THAT’S what rankles me.
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#10Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 3:45pm
She pops up with the same story every two years. A beautiful performer but be gone already !!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/20
#11Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 4:05pm
BrodyFosse123 said: "‘The most hurtful thing,’ said the former Broadway star, ‘was that people found out this one thing about me—and nothing else in my character or my work mattered anymore. And no one defended me.’
Well, now we also know you're a petulant whiner with a victim complex, so good luck finding more work that way. Maybe you could do a movie for the Daily Wire.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/27/21
#12Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 4:42pm
get this Bari Weiss bs off the message board
#13Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 5:06pm
Is it too late to move The 2026 Tony Awards off of CBS? I don’t want to see Bari Weiss handing Laura Osnes a lifetime achievement award.
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#14Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 5:14pm
Beyond the self-aggrandizing victim mentality of her story, this is an interesting thought exercise. What roles would Osnes be playing if her career had not "ended." Would she be replacing Hilty in Death Becomes Her? Opening Romy & Michelle? Mother in Ragtime? Alternate for Norma Desmond or Jackie Siegel? Replacement for Mrs. Lovett? I doubt it.
She aged out of the ingenue role and arguably doesn't have the comedic or dramatic chops to be a leading lady. Revivals of the kind of golden-age R&H material she shines at are few and far between. I can't believe she has enough public appeal to open a show or enough charisma to excite investors/influencers. Her last Broadway show was years before the pandemic (and was a commercial and critical failure). Broadway is a business. If she could get the job done and sell tickets, she'd still be working.
#15Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 5:23pm
Is there any way to read the full article without signing up or giving the site any money?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#16Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 5:27pm
Why would her career be ended?
There could be work opening for Trump in Orlando at CPAC.
#17Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 5:42pm
That’s the thing- her career hasn’t ended. It’s just no longer at the pinnacle of the industry. She has joined the ranks of the thousands of actors who live and work in smaller markets all over the country who will likely never set foot on a Broadway stage, or whose Broadway days are now behind them.
I’ve always thought she was a good but not necessarily singular or irreplaceable performer, something that her absence from the scene has only reinforced. She was, it turns out, pretty replaceable, which I imagine is a stinging realization to have.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#18Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 5:56pm
Yeah, in the space between Bandstand and COVID, there were a number of roles she was in the running for that she didn’t book. The industry had already moved on from her before she became problematic in this way.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#19Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 6:08pm
According to the article, she got married when she was only 21. She’s gotta be a conservative Christian. And for some reason, that demographic was generally pretty against the COVID vaccine.
#20Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 6:14pm
The Distinctive Baritone said: "According to the article, she got married when she was only 21. She’s gotta be a conservative Christian. And for some reason, that demographic was generally pretty against the COVID vaccine."
I don’t think she ever hid the fact that’s she’s extremely religious. There were definitely rumblings that she was on the far right of the political spectrum before COVID, but she tended to keep her politics close to the chest back then. The mask came off — no pun intended — when she realized that her Broadway career was over.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#21Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/18/25 at 6:39pm
It seems like a million years ago but wasn’t it also about putting Tony Yazbeck at risk of getting sick when he had a newborn baby at home?
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