Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

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Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:16pm

Hi there! Thought I'd give this a try. I know many recording artists / pop music stars have crossed over to do Broadway. Has there been, say within the last 20 years, anyone who came from Broadway that has had a "hit" on the pop charts? I know way back when ('50's, 60's), there were some huge Broadway stars with radio hits. I remember Richard Harris's "McArther Park". I can't think of any more at the moment. I know there were others. Are there any recent examples? If not, why not? What do you think changed?

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:21pm

Nick Jonas?

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:24pm

Does Britney Spears count? NO!! Jonas' were NEVER on Broadway do you hear me NEVER!!!!

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:29pm

http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=91689

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:30pm

Wow...

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:33pm

It is my choice that it never happened.

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 3:59pm

Ethel Merman

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 4:04pm

Why does it matter if one of the Jonas Brothers was in theater before that? I mean, before that came along, they probably didn't have an obnoxious preteen fanbase. It's probably the creation of the band that started that.

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 4:18pm

Ricky Martin
Sarah Brightman
Bette Midler

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Updated On: 9/30/08 at 04:18 PM

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 4:24pm

Barbra Streisand
Heather Headley
And I do believe Donna Summer was in HAIR at one point.

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"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 4:29pm

MEAT LOAF!

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 4:30pm

Sarah Brightman

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 5:37pm

It is my choice that it never happened.

BRILLIANT. And how do you feel about the Holocaust? 9/11? Do you rewrite your personal perception of history EVERY time something happens that you don't like, or is Nick Jonas worse than Hitler? XD

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 6:06pm

Good one Weez.

I can't see Bette Midler's name on that list without thinking of that Seinfeld episode. The one where she was in the musical Rochelle, Rochelle. The story about a young girl's journey from Milan to Minsk.

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 6:13pm

Donna Summer was in a European tour of HAIR.

Barbra Streisand
Heather Headley
Bette Midler
Deborah Gibson
Toni Braxton
Deborah Cox
Taylor Dayne
Vanessa Williams

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 6:17pm

Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Or is it the other way around?

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 8:39pm

so we are using the term "theater people" very loosely here?

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 9:47pm

Linda Eder? Technically she was on the charts with "You Are My Home" pre-Broadway, but she's had many singles/pop CDs as well?

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:29pm

Thanks for the answers. Meat Loaf? Really?

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:34pm

Yup. Meat Loaf has appeared on Broadway in: ROCKABYE HAMLET (original Broadway cast), THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (original Broadway cast) and HAIR (replacement).

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re: Theatre People Who Have Crossed Over To Pop Music?

Posted: 9/30/08 at 10:37pm

Jesse McCartney always says he grew up on Broadway, but I think he actually just did a national tour of "The King and I" and "A Christmas Carol" with Roger Daltrey... neither technically on Broadway. LOVE him, though.