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Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
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Leading Actor Joined: 4/14/12
#75Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/21/25 at 7:34pm
Broadway became a different place after COVID for a lot of reasons unrelated to the virus. The shows were different. The finances were different. I’m no Broadway historian, but I can’t think of any shows in the post COVID era that would have had a place for a “Laura Osnes type” in a starring role. Laura Osnes wasn’t even a Laura Osnes type anymore. She aged out of those roles. Aside from all the poor choices she made, the work just wasn’t there for her. If she was a one of a kind musical comedy star, Broadway and the public would have eventually made a place for her. But she’s not. She is welcomed in the world of Hallmark Movies and concerts in flyover country, and that’s not a bad career. This “professional victim” stance she is taking is not helping her cause.
Diana Greenhouse
Swing Joined: 11/18/25
#76Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/21/25 at 8:09pm
Couldn’t you say the same about Kelli Ohara being that ingenue type? She’s managed just fine with her career. Laura Osnes would have been cast in shows I’m sure, but she also did a lot of concerts and cabaret shows. She probably could have handled things better, but I disagree with the vitriol and cancellation that was thrown at her, needlessly. It was a divisive hyper political time and people weren’t thinking rationally.
Updated On: 11/21/25 at 08:09 PM
#77Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 12:00am
"More people die of the flu."
That is a bald-faced, Trump-quality, lie.
Worldwide flu deaths per year: 290k-650k. Worldwide Covid death in just 2 years: 5 million.
US flu deaths 2020 and 2021: approximately 32,300
US Covid deaths 2020 and 2021: approximately 1,200,000
Diana Greenhouse
Swing Joined: 11/18/25
#78Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 12:04am
Covid deaths last year were lower than the flu. The flu is deadlier than COVID
QueenTwinnied
Broadway Star Joined: 6/16/17
#79Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 12:33am
Thank you covid vaccine!
Zeppie2022
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/22
#80Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 9:13am
"The shows were different. The finances were different. I’m no Broadway historian, but I can’t think of any shows in the post COVID era that would have had a place for a “Laura Osnes type” in a starring role. Laura Osnes wasn’t even a Laura Osnes type anymore. She aged out of those roles"
Laura Osnes was not a Disney princess in "Bandstand", if you believe that is her "type". She played widow whose husband died in WW II. In that role, she would later become singer in a band that played "swing" music. She also IMO was a pretty good dancer in that role. Lovely voice, attractive and can dance is a person who should be able to find some work on Broadway, politics aside.
#81Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 10:47am
Taylor Frey via IG story:
”Bull****, bull****, bull****. In the words of her favorite politician, this is “fake news”. Laura and our entire community knows what ostracized her, and it has nothing to do with getting a vaccine or not.”
I am big. It’s the REVIVALS that got small.
Diana Greenhouse
Swing Joined: 11/18/25
#82Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 10:57am
I would say it was the timing of it all. That was truly a wretched time. Why would she get cancelled and yet you’ve got the likes of Nicole Scherzinger, Corey Cott, and other right wingers leading broadway shows?
Updated On: 11/22/25 at 10:57 AM
#83Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 11:29am
Diana Greenhouse said: "I would say it was the timing of it all. That was truly a wretched time. Why would she get cancelled and yet you’ve got the likes of Nicole Scherzinger, Corey Cott, and other right wingers leading broadway shows?"
Corey Cott is a right winger????
#84Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 11:46am
GiantsInTheSky2 said: "Taylor Frey via IG story:
”Bull****, bull****, bull****. In the words of her favorite politician, this is “fake news”. Laura and our entire community knows what ostracized her, and it has nothing to do with getting a vaccine or not.”"
He’s basically not in the industry anymore. He should just spill the beans.
Zeppie2022
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/22
#85Laura Osnes Didn’t Get the Covid Shot. It Ended Her Broadway Career
Posted: 11/22/25 at 11:59am
Interesting article. I think it is worth a read.
https://www.onstageblog.com/editorials/2025/9/29/when-do-we-welcome-back-laura-osnes
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