Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
LouieLovesTheater
Leading Actor Joined: 3/30/04
#0Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:48am
From Variety (warning, contains spoilers about the season finale)
Desperate Housewives villain Roger Bart, who plays the show's pharmacist with a homicidal bent, will join the hit ABC series full-time next season, reports Variety.
Bart stole scenes as the creepy George Williams, a lonely man who develops a crush on one of his customers, Bree Van De Kamp (Marcia Cross). In Sunday's season finale, Bree's husband Rex apparently died after - unbeknownst to them - a jealous George tampered with his pills.
Beyond his Desperate Housewives gig, Bart will appear this December in the feature version of The Producers, reprising his stage role as Carmen Ghia. Bart scored a Tony nomimation for his Broadway performance in the musical.
Bart also will appear in the indie comedy I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, directed by Jeff Garlin.
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#1re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:52am
Bree's husband Rex apparently died????
Just when I thought this was a done deal!
"Not a day goes by..."
#2re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:56am
WOOO
I love Roger Bart. LOOVE him
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#3re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 11:03amThe way that is written, "apparently" died may mean he is still alive....
mandy2loveRB
Featured Actor Joined: 5/4/05
#4re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 11:04amHalf Happy, Half sad. That means he will be on West Coast taping DH, no way he will be in NY to do any shows or events...yet, I could see him on TV every week, so I guess I will be happy after all.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#5re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 11:28amOh, God. Keep him dead. I really don't like the man.
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#6re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 11:32am
"Apparently" good news. 
Hamlet's father.
#7re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 11:33am
I heart Roger Bart.
Hey that rhymes!
although, dangit, now I apparently have to watch Desperate Housewives. As if ABC wasn't ruining my life enough already with Lost and Grey's Anatomy.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#8re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 12:09pmWhy apparently? Doc said he died.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 12:14pmYes, but notice how we didn't see the body....
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mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#10re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 12:17pm
Wait..Roger Bart...you mean Roger Bart?
In on Desperate Housewives?
hmmmm. I need to watch more tv.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#11re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 12:19pm
And just because he shoots on the West Coast, doesn't mean he can do specials and concerts in NY. He's not in EVERY episode.
They be plenty of Bart to go around!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 2:36pmBravo Bart. I've been in lust with you since You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
#13re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 3:32pm
Yeah..it's well known here that I love him (I think he's basically the only thing I post, if ever, about O.o). It's great that he's got the job (I love that his character is different from most of the ones he's played before, as it shows his AMAZING range)...I just wish the writing on the show were better. The George/Bree storyline (and also the one with Felicia Tillman) is probably the best....the rest is, in my opinion, so weak and unoriginal.
However, Roger on TV every week is pretty damned awesome!!!
Merrily we roll along, roll along...
Updated On: 5/24/05 at 03:32 PM
#14re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 3:35pmYAY!
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 3:35pm
He scares me on the show but its good he's gonna be on TV.
I liked Rex.
Am I the only one who thinks Marcia is hot?!
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#16re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 6:10pm
YESSSSSSSS! One of my major crushes on one of my favorite tv shows. La vie est belle. 
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
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#18re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 6:16pmOh good, cause everyone says she is scary looking but I think she's hot!
Broadwaydannyc
Chorus Member Joined: 1/8/05
#19re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 9:28pm
This is excellent news for Roger and I am very happy for him.
I loved him from the minute I saw him in the Producers. The rest of the country is now finding out what we all knew about his talents.
He played that part on Desperate Housewvices brilliantly, and earned a regular spot on the show. The writers could have a field day with the character, and Roger's ability to play it so well.
He deserves this success, and even though it may mean not seeing him on the boards here in NY as often, we must put our selfishness aside and wish him all the best!
Hey Mr. or Mrs. Producer...
Let's Keep LIVE Musicians in the PIT!
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#20re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 9:34pmwhose Roger Bart's wife? or girlfriend?
#21re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 9:36pm
One of the best moments on TV for me this season was..
Bree finding out Rex died - she finishes polishing the silverware. Sits at the table, and just bawls. WHAT AN AMAZING MOMENT.
I'm happy for Roger.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#22re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 9:39pmI'm pretty sure Rex is dead. The actor who played him (who's name escapes me right now) was interviewed on Good Morning America. He said that all the men in the show knew their time there was limited and he had only given Rex a couple of seasons before he would be gone. He then mentioned all these other characters he's played in the past and who have all died - in the month of May. He said he now has an established pattern of dying in May which he hopes will just continue into the future.
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#23re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:03pm
uggg I love Rogers Bart but I hate George. lol Which means Roger is doing a really good job playing him. :)
And oh Harriet S. Harris getting beaten up so badly. 
She needs to stay on the show as well. There is something so strangly likeable about her character.
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#24re: Roger Bart goes full time Desperate
Posted: 5/24/05 at 11:30pm
YAY! MORE ROGER!
Be my lover Roger Bart.
and Cheyenne Jackson, you too. :)
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