Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
sleepyguy1717
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
#1Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 8:29pm
What are some Broadway performers who didn't go to college for musical theater/voice/etc.? I'm sure there must be a bunch, but who actually makes it to the stage and is successful?
#2re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 8:38pmI could be wrong, but I remember reading an interview with Eden Espinosa one time and she said she hadn't gone to college.
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#2re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 8:40pmAli Ewoldt (Cossette in Les Miz) has a bachlors in psycology from yale, and no degree in acting, singing,etc...
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#3re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 8:41pmCarolee Carmello went to school for business. I believe she's never taken voice lessons, either- which is incredible
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ILuv2shop531
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/07
#4re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 8:44pm
yep eden worked at disneyland & universal instead
from a broadway.com interview:
I never went to school; I spent my college years working. These jobs helped me to find my own way, in terms of performing."
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=42348
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#5re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 8:57pm
"Carolee Carmello went to school for business. I believe she's never taken voice lessons, either- which is incredible"
-wow!
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#6re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:07pmi dont think jon groff or jonathan gallagher went to college.
ILuv2shop531
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/07
#7re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:14pma lot of the spring awakening cast didn't go to college, prob because everyone is so young. some are in school currently though.
#8re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:16pmMany, many performers are and were very successful onstage without college degrees- not just the people of the most recent generation listed. Some people have "it" naturally. Ethel Merman never got a freakin' Tisch degree.
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jake6970
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
#9re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:22pmA lot of the SA cast are still too young for college!
#10re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:29pmAt the risk of annoying a lot of people who have their degrees in this field...it isn't a necessity to have a degree in something theatre related to make it, at all. If you've got it, you've got it.
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#11re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:38pm
Eden did go to college...I don't know if she completed her degree, but she did go. Cause she went to my college.
Here is a video of her as an alumni sponsor:
http://theatre.fullcoll.edu/alumni.asp
#12re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:41pmMany of them even learned how to spell "college," too.
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philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#13re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:42pmI don't believe NORM LEWIS (Les Miserables Revival (Javert), Little Mermaid(King Triton)) went to college for theatre, but I could be wrong. I thought I read an interview somewhere that said he did something with journalism.
Juliash
Broadway Star Joined: 3/6/07
#14re: Performers who DIDN'T go to collge?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:46pmThat's very true but its becoming much more standard.
sleepyguy1717
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
#15re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:46pm
"Many of them even learned how to spell "college," too."
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#16re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:50pmsutton foster attended carnegie mellon for not even a year.
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#17re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 9:55pmyes, i remember her saying on the American Theater Wings, Performing In The Theater and she said that they told her that she will never make it on Broadway and she will get no where.
ILuv2shop531
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/07
#18re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:02pm
"A lot of the SA cast are still too young for college!"
yea i know, thats why i said, b/c everyone is so young. don't have to get harsh:
a lot of the spring awakening cast didn't go to college, prob because everyone is so young. some are in school currently though.
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#19re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:27pmNeither Nathan Lane or Matthew Broderick attended college.
#21re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:31pmChristine Andreas told us at the stage door that she didn't go to college.
sleepyguy1717
Broadway Star Joined: 8/1/07
#22re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:41pmI only ask because I've recently discovered how disappointed I am in the american schooling system. However, I wanted to go to college for the extra training.
#23re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 10:53pmThere are probably just as many actors with degrees out of work as there are without. The only difference is the ones without aren't $180,000 in the hole.
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#24re: Performers who DIDN'T go to college?
Posted: 10/28/07 at 11:13pmJosh Groban dropped out of CMU.
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