Renee Elise Goldsberry
Renee Elise Goldsberry
JoeGillis
Understudy Joined: 3/28/05
#0Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/18/06 at 10:16pm
Does anyone know why Renee left the Color Purple? I noticed on her website, she does not even mention it in her biography. Any inside scoop?
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#1re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/18/06 at 10:17pm
I believe she was pregnant and planned to leave but had a miscarriage.
Updated On: 7/18/06 at 10:17 PM
JoeGillis
Understudy Joined: 3/28/05
#2re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/18/06 at 10:19pmThanks BSoBW. I'm sorry for her loss, I've heard her sing and she is amazing. I wish her well.
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#3re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/18/06 at 11:34pm
She deserves to go back in. I loved her replacement, but with her there as Nettie, it felt special.
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#4re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:19am
oh, that's sad she had a miscarriage
i also wish she could go back in- i bet she was great!
#5re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:22amShe performed at the daytime emmy's and was amazing. You can catch her on just about every day on One Life To Live...
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#6re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:22amShe's beautiful and talented. And she was just nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award last week. So I'm glad she's continuing to have successes.
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-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#7re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:28am
I loved Renee on the cast recording and was very sad I wouldn't get to see her, but her replacement Darlesia Cearcy was fantastic. Strong voice, strong acting... everything Nettie should be.
And yes, Renee left due to her failed pregnancy, but that wasn't the only reason. Supposedly, the producers at "One Life To Live" scaled back her storyline for her to do the show but wanted to bring her character into a major storyline that would have involved more filming and more time away from TCP, so they were rumored to have asked her if she could cut her run short.
I too hope she eventually returns, though!
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
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Updated On: 7/19/06 at 10:28 AM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#8re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 10:33amShe was fantastic at Broadway Under the Stars a couple weeks ago (and a few days ago on TV)!
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#9re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 12:13pmI didn't get a chance to see her in The Color Purple, but she was fantastic in Two Gentlemen of Verona last summer.
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Broadway Star Joined: 6/26/05
#10re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 1:48pm
"she was fantastic in Two Gentlemen of Verona last summer."
Yet Rosario Dawson was the only person anyone seemed to notice, save Ben Brantley who expressed admiration for Renee. But it seems that Renee is finally getting the props due her.
#11re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 4:44pm
I love her, almost to the point of obsession. 
Anywho, I wish she does get to do it again, I was lucky enough to see her and wish to see her again.
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#12re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 7:12pmI saw her in The Color Purple, she was amazing as Nettie. She's so talented!
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#13re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/19/06 at 7:19pmFoster, the Daytime Emmys were awhile ago. She was my favorite part of The Color Purple. Well, wouldn't working there full time just mean missing the Weds matinee. This is time - wise, not energy or stamina.
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#14re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/20/06 at 11:59pmFrom what I understand, she knew she was pregnant going into TCP and had already scheduled herself to leave the show because she'd be significantly along that she couldn't do both. But when she miscarried, she decided to keep to the scheduled exit.
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#15re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:47am
Oops, I don't keep up with Daytime TV...didn't realize the Emmys were a while ago.
Brandon Victor Dixon is on a soap opera too, isn't he?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#16re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:51amOnly just recently. He joined the cast of OLTL, same as Renee.
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
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Featured Actor Joined: 11/20/05
#17re: Renee Elise Goldsberry
Posted: 7/21/06 at 12:59amI saw Renee 3 times in Purple and Darlesia twice...I think Renee was far superior in both acting and vocal departments, and when Mister says how much prettier she is than Celie, you actually believed it.
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