Re: Broadway legend Jennifer Love Hewitt

[followspot]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 2:42pm

BWW is shilling for Lifetime now? Hope it comes with a check.

JLH

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 3:46pm

I loved jennifer Love Hewitt in Hello Dolly.


......oh she wasn't??
was she ever on Broadway??

[followspot]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 4:05pm

According to the interview, she's heard of theater, but has never actually seen it (let alone partaken in it). But she really, really, really likes what she's heard!!*

*THE CLIENT LIST airs Sundays at 10 PM on Lifetime.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 4:31pm

I fells asleep with Lifetime whenever this plays and woke up to it -- it was one of the worse written things I've ever seen on tv. The performances weren't much better.

Cybil Shepard plays her mum, which you would think might help. Or not.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 6:57pm

Every time a critic says, " I loved it". She gets a credit. Thus, legend.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 7:12pm

I hear she is going to sharpen her theatre teeth on Broadway as Medea.
the musical

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 7:21pm

For years I thought she had done a stint as Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" either on Broadway or on a stop in the tour. Turns out I was wrong though I'm still shocked it never happened.

I know she was heavily courted and apparently all but signed to replaced KChenoweth in "Promises, Promises" but that fell through due to the original tv movie going into production (I believe).

I agree it's incredibly silly for her to be interviewed for a Broadway-themed website, despite her singing a song from Smokey Joe's Cafe in a commercial. I do think she'll come to broadway, but she's in a strange position of "too big to be the 143rd Roxie and too small to get a new, big show based on her name alone." She just has to wait for the right project and the right time. I do agree with the interviewer that she'd be a delight in Sweet Charity, not that we need another revival.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 8:06pm

I LOVE Love and would love to see her do a love story on Broadway.

[latitudex1]

Posted: 3/16/13 at 8:13pm

Well, BroadwayWorld had sister sites now, and they cross post.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 7:28am

Outside of her being beautiful, what has she really done in her career that is a major accomplishment?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 8:20am

Besides being a child star on KIDS INCORPORATED, starring in PARTY OF FIVE for 4 years, starring in her own CBS show, GHOST WHISPERER for 5 years, being in the 2nd season of her new show THE CLIENT LIST and films including HEARTBREAKERS, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER 1 & 2, CAN'T HARDLY WAIT, SISTER ACT 2, JEWTOPIA and many more?

I think that's more of an accomplishment than most actresses ever achieve.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 8:50am

Jordan - I know she has worked since she was very young but my question was pertaining to awards which to me are "major" accomplishments.(Tony, Grammy, Emmy etc). IMO - the things you mentioned are nice accomplishments for a actress but not "major" and that was my point. Even with the list you mentioned, I think the point of this thread is why she should have a story about her on BWW.

[followspot]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 9:17am

Wasn't intending to pull Love into question — I think she's delightful, and especially in a world of crash-and-burn child stars, she has a remarkable (non-theater) career track record thus far. There's been a media blitz for THE CLIENT LIST this past week, and it was just odd to open BWW yesterday and see a top-lining interview featuring Lifetime links and multiple giant network ad graphics and only the most tenuously forced of content connections to theater. Mentioning theater people she's worked with in television doesn't make it a theater interview. No harm done, I suppose — just kinda hope this was a fluke and not a new BWW standard. (And, as I said in my original post, if this was sponsored ad placement by Lifetime, more power to BWW.)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 9:17am

So unless you win the (insert name here) award, you're not good or "worthy" enough to be interviewed for an entertainment website?

[Wynbish]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 9:34am

Heck, I remember Twilight interviews being on the front page.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 10:12am

Jordan - This is Broadway website, not a general entertainment website. Since she has no theatre experience that I knew of was wondering why she would be doing this interview. I don't want to respond to the other part of your statement because I don't want this to turn into a debate of Ms. Hewitt's talent.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 12:28pm

It takes a lot to survive in the business, period, and she has done it over and over again, something that people who have won top awards in the industry (like Tatum O'Neill, for example) haven't been able to do. So the whole awards thing has almost no connection to "accomplishments." Her big accomplishment is that she has worked consistently and at this point in her life she's headlining a top series on cable TV.
Having said that, it makes zero sense that she'd be interviewed for this site. I imagine they just jump at the chance to interview anyone who's famous in any way, and if they can find even the smallest, tangential reason to relate it to Broadway ("you ever wanted to be in a Broadway show?" "did you see LES MIS?" "do you like CHICAGO?"), then they include it. It's pretty ridiculous.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 12:34pm

Well, BWW does have all those other sections now. Maybe it was supposed to be for TalkTvWorld (or whatever it's called now) and it was mislabeled.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 12:44pm

I got my SAG card working on Hearbreakers because I saved an extra from choking on a lunch break.

And then I got to dry hump Sigorny Weaver.


Good times, good times....

[DEClarke]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 12:51pm

If you actually read the interview, it's abundantly clear why it is on the BWW main page.

It discusses her work with ALAN MENKEN, LYNN AHRENS, and MARC SCHAIMAN.

It discusses her "beetling" a song from SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE for a music video. It also discusses her rendition of "Big Spender" from SWEET CHARITY.

It is part of the InDepth InterView series (which is ALWAYS posted on the BWW Main Page).

[followspot]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 1:49pm

It is part of the InDepth InterView series (which is ALWAYS posted on the BWW Main Page).

What it is is part of Lifetime TV's publicity wave this week for THE CLIENT LIST's second season premiere, weakly shoehorned into a theater article through the interviewer's grasping at any tangential Broadway connection a performer who has never done live theater anywhere has on her résumé.

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 1:57pm

As someone who has a somewhat unusual entertainment profile - attending theatre frequently and reading about it online but seeing few movies (Les Miserables was my first one in the cinema in 5 years) or TV shows (Smash and Glee and Drop Dead Diva are the ones that I watch most regularly, because of the musical-theatre numbers), the only work that I was aware of by Ms. Hewitt was from a DVD extra on Hunchback of Notre Dame where they interview her and show her singing a few excerpts from her character's songs in the Hunchback sequel (which I haven't yet seen but plan to). From that admittedly limited exposure, I really enjoyed her singing and thought she had a lovely voice, and she seemed like a very nice young lady from the few minutes of interview that they showed. So I kind of think of her as a singing actress, since that is the only exposure that I have of her. Anyway, I would gladly give her a chance and go see it if she was cast in a live musical.

Updated On: 3/17/13 at 01:57 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 2:11pm

And I think she could make straight men want to see musical theatre...

She could revive 'Boobs! The Musical'!

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 2:32pm

I'd like to see her on Broadway in: Vejazzledu.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/17/13 at 5:06pm

"How do you solve a problem like Medea
How do you catch a cloud and pin her down?"

Please can we talk about her in Medea.. the musical?

Updated On: 3/17/13 at 05:06 PM