NY Times Article

There's an article in today's NY Times about stunt casting in broadway this summer. Includes Joey Fatone, Joey McIntyre, Deborah Cox, Christy Carlson Romano, Paige Davis, and Melanie Brown. It said that Broadway uses celebrity actors in the summer to draw the attention of tourists who would be more likely to see a show if it had a big name star.

Just found it interesting because I didn't know tourists were the main reason.

American Idol fans: it also mentioned that Vanessa Oliveras is playing Tracy Turnblad in the Toronto run of Hairspray...ha!

"Just found it interesting because I didn't know tourists were the main reason."


i am stupified about this sentence!

Tourists make up two-thirds of the audience, so, of course they're the main reason for stunt-casting.

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Tourists make up two-thirds of the audience, so, of course they're the main reason for stunt-casting.

Well the article continues to say that they don't do that in the winter time because theres not as many tourists so they appeal to the NY theatregoers that don't need big name stars, blah blah.

and on other boards so NYTimes writing about it seems a bit late for it to be a breaking story in the journalist's mind but oh well.

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I found the article interesting also. There was another good article about Paige Davis, which I believe was on the same page.

Yes, and Stunt Casting has been discussed to death here
Posted On:8/1/04 at 05:48:15 PM
and on other boards so NYTimes writing about it seems a bit late for it to be a breaking story in the journalist's mind but oh well.

Oh boy! I forgot there was a limit to how many times you could post about something here! Thank you ever so much for reminding me!

I was talking about the stale story the paper printed, not about talking about it here -- merely pointing out that the reporter was not breaking new news since obviously it has been discussed to death before the paper went to press

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