So which actors were busiest in 2007?
So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 9:13pm
My vote goes to Martha Plimpton (Coast of Utopia, Midsummer, Cymbeline) and Kristine Nielsen (Our Leading Lady, Crazy Mary, Die Mommie Die!), as well as Dylan Baker (Mauritius and November back-to-back), Michael Cerveris (King Lear, LoveMusik, Cymbeline) and David Pittu (Coast of Utopia, LoveMusik, Is He Dead?)
Anyone care to add more to the list?
(and feel free to start thinking about your nominees for the 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards, to be announced once all the postponed openings are rescheduled, or December 10. Whichever comes first.)
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#2re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 9:29pm
David Pittu also did a few readings.
Harriet Harris - she did two major productions back to back. She had just a few days between Cry Baby and Old Acquaintance.
StageFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/07
#2re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 9:30pmBoyd Gaines - Journey's End, Gypsy, and Pygmalion.
#3re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 9:35pmLeslie Kritzer? (Blonde, Bares, Catered Affair)
#4re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 9:41pm
Stephanie J Block.
(The Pirate Queen, Bye Bye Birdie Reading, 9 to 5 Reading, Wicked, many concerts AND a Wedding).
#5re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 9:47pm
MICHAEL CERVERIS
The definition of a Broadway Actor. Always in my book, the hardest working actor. Respectable, esteemed, honorable, and humble.
Sweeney Todd to King Lear to Lovemusik to Cymbeline
Always a concert or benefit or reading on Monday evenings... some of which included Weimar New York, The Losers Lounge, Irish Rock, Our Time, Actors' Fund Gala, Manhattan Theatre Club Gala, Drama League Awards, Theatre World Awards, Tony Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Obie Awards, New Dramatists Honors Albee, Tony Randall Fund, Drama Desk Panel, At War Reading, Man and Superman Reading, Broadway Barks, In Darfur Reading, Shakespeare Goes to the Opera, Madison Avenue Men, Red Bull Revelation Reading... AND COUNTING!
Updated On: 11/26/07 at 09:47 PM
#6re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 9:47pmI would say John Lloyd Young. Even though he cut back to six performances a week, he made an appearance at practically every BC/EFA benefit, along with other benefits, other performers' concerts, and opening nights. He was a very busy, giving guy throughout his two year run in JERSEY BOYS.
-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)
ruprecht
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/05
#7re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:15pmI'm not sure a one night benefit counts Anakela but if it does, I could pretty much list everything Wanna Be did regarding JLY and put Orfeh's name in place of JLY and add in the fact that she did the whole award season as well. Oh and there's the 8 show a week thing and a few workshops along the way. But again that's only if we're counting one off's. Julia Murney too minus the award season.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#8re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:18pmJoe Mantello- The Ritz, Receptionist, and November. Am I missing any?
#9re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:21pmChristine Ebersole was kind of busy during "Grey Gardens" promotions. She was EVERYWHERE for a while.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#10re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:28pmMantello also did BLACKBIRD.
Heybeenfood
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/06
#11re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:41pmHowever, Mantello did not act in any of those productions.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#12re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:43pmNo, but he arguably had to do more work than any of those actors.
BreeDaniel
Broadway Star Joined: 1/25/04
#13re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:43pmSo you're only busy if you're "acting" in things? You're joking right?
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#14re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:47pmIs that question directed at me?
BreeDaniel
Broadway Star Joined: 1/25/04
#15re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:48pmNo, we seem to have posted at the exact same time.
#16re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:43pm
Cheyenne Jackson....
Worksop for "Xanadu", The Vineyard Theatre's annual gala, Songs for Darfur: The Water Project, "Hysteria" (feature film), Records track for "Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan", Performed "Cabaret Gourmet" benefit, records "Bedazzled" for Radio campaign for the New York Lottery, ASPCA Charity Event, BCEFA Easter Bonnet benefit, concert-staging of "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman", Broadway Barks, Esquire Magazine's "Madison Avenue Men" benefit, Broadway Biography at the Zipper, Performs at amfAR's "Honoring with Pride" Gala, Red Eye of Love at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Films TV pilot "Family Practice" in Chicago, Returns to "Xanadu" on Broadway full time, Carnegie Hall singing backup for Brian Stokes Mitchell, "Rockers on Broadway" at BB King's, Records soundtrack for Xanadu, Performs on "The View" and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
*Stops to breathe*... I'm just tired thinking about it.
I recently asked Cheyenne if he ever takes a break & he said "Naaa - I can sleep when I'm dead." lol
Need I say more? 
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#17re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/27/07 at 12:35amSo tottally off topic, but I had a dream last night that David Pittu and I were both cast in The Laramie Project at my school, and we were the only cast members. With that said, I don't have any clue (till now) as to what Pittu looks like, how old, etc. I just knew the name. How weird is that?
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#18re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/27/07 at 1:06amSpeaking of Christine, where is she? Has she fallen off the face of the planet??
#19re: So which actors were busiest in 2007?
Posted: 11/27/07 at 3:52pm
Christine's still busy. She's doing 4 nights at Birdland (next week with Billy Stritch) and has a new CD coming out
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