Mr. Manley ...

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Mr. Manley ...

Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:23am

... Pope, long-time Roger in the tour and then Broadway casts of RENT. (Shown here with the ethereal Simone as Mimi).

What's he been up to lately?

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Updated On: 8/10/06 at 11:23 AM

#2

re: Mr. Manley ...

Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:25am

I saw him sing a song from The Woman in White at one of those Broadway Kitchen Sink concerts a little less than a year ago. Before and after that, though, he seems to have dropped off of the musical theater radar.

He was my first Roger. And he is very pretty.

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#3

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:34am

That Mimi reminds me of Adriane Lenox.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:44am

Simone was an incredible Mimi. Just wonderful.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:47am

Oh wow, good memories. Simone was one of my favourite Mimis ever. And for some reason, I'm incredibly hard to please when it comes to Mimis. But I loved her. Manley, too.

... As Roger, though. Not as Mimi. I'd love to see him in anything right now.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:50am

He was worlds better than the first Roger he replaced on the first stop of the first national tour.

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#7

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:51am

I misread that for a second and I was going to beat you.

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#8

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:53am

My mama didn't raise no fool!

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#9

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 12:41pm

I saw Manley last summer in CLO's production of The Who's Tommy in Pittsburgh. He was great and it was a treat to see him onstage again. Jared Stein, current MD of the Rent tour, was also in the show.

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 12:42pm

Did he play Tommy?

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 12:59pm

Indeed he did. :)

#12

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:34pm

You know, he may have looked a bit He-Man to be an ex-junkie with HIV, but I bet that served Tommy well.

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#13

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 4:59pm

I loved Pope in RENT.

#14

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 5:26pm

I saw Pope and he was very good as was the tour!

#15

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 5:31pm

He was worlds better than the first Roger he replaced on the first stop of the first national tour.

Sean Keller. ::shudder::

#16

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 5:34pm

Oh my, brdlwyr, I agree with you 100%! Imagine that!

#17

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 6:01pm

Sean Keller! I knew it was Sean, but couldn't remember the Keller.

Queen Esther was good. (Hi Queen Esther! I know you're reading this! xo!)

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#18

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Posted: 8/10/06 at 6:46pm

Pope most recently reprised his performance as Tommy at a Equity regional theater in Rockford, Illinois called the New American Theatre. They were real excited that they got a "Broadway person" to come out there!

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Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:14am

Not to mention a star of Sweet Valley High!

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#20

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Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:17am

I also saw him as Tommy and I'm a much bigger Alice Ripley fan than a Manley Pope fan so I focused on her more...however he was very good in the role. That was the last I heard of him.

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#21

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Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:17am

He was my first Roger too, I also agree that he is really pretty

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#22

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Posted: 8/11/06 at 2:42am

Pretty and dreamy.

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#23

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Posted: 8/11/06 at 3:06am

I can't stand him

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#24

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Posted: 8/11/06 at 3:27am

Manley was my first Roger too.

*sigh*

What else is there to say about your first?

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Updated On: 8/11/06 at 03:27 AM

#25

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Posted: 8/11/06 at 3:44am

well he was my first (on broadway) and i can say he was terrible.

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