Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break

[Mr Roxy]

Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#0

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:21pm

First Dracula & Now Dr Dolittle

This guy needs some luck

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[442namffug]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#1

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:24pm

Well if he acted in GOOD shows...then he wouldn't need a "break" or "luck"...he'd just need his talent and some energy. Picking shows like Dracula and Dr. Doolittle which are PATHETIC adaptations of stories which really do NOT belong on stage is the fault of the producers/writers/directors/actors and I have no sympathy for him. There's pleanty of work out there, he just needs to pick the right stuff.

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#2

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:27pm

I too feel really bad. He is very talented and he deserves to be in a good show.

"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"

[Mr Roxy]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#3

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:29pm

I liked Dracula

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[Shawk]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#4

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:36pm

Please, 442namffug I'm sure he didn't think, "Wow, this is really bad and probably going to fail miserably. Sign me up!" Everyone makes bad decisions that seem to make sense at the time, and when your job is as variable as an actor's job clearly is, it's probably even easier to fall into this.

He's a talented guy. I hope he finds his way into a good show soon.

'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."' ~Lewis Carroll

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#5

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:37pm

maybe he prefers short runs???

[Unknown User]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#6

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:48pm

"There's pleanty of work out there, he just needs to pick the right stuff."

I'm not sure I've ever heard the existence of a New York actor expressed in these terms.

[Ladyofthe Lake]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#7

Posted: 9/28/05 at 8:55pm

There's pleanty of work out there, he just needs to pick the right stuff.

Do you really think it's that simple? Do you think he's being deluged with offers, and merely has to pick the best among them? The percentage of performers with the luxury of picking and choosing that way is remarkably small. He's a known quantity and a very talented man, but not a huge name.

[442namffug]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#8

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:01pm

I partially blame him, but really meant to blame the producers more.

Anyone (behind the scenes, onstage, or in the audience..or on BWW.com) who thinks DOCTOR FREAKING DOOLITTLE is a good idea for an interesting and entertaining piece of theatre must have a severe mental problem.

I, still, have no sympathy. However, I agree the man is talented and hope he is booked in some better quality productions soon.

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#9

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:09pm

Well, I think it's a fantastic idea. They just should have stuck with the script as it was in London and not changed it. I mean, you almost have to wonder how they could mess up a show so badly that features an academy award winning song and a score with "Talk to the Animals", "Beautiful Things", "When I Look In Your Eyes", "Like Animals", "Where Are the Words" and "Something in Your Smile"... all gems.

[musicalsFan]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#10

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:09pm

Considering how jobs are few and far between for actors and for the rest of the public in general, 442namffug, I hope no one cuts you any slack when you lose a job.

People just take a job and hope for the best.

I am not in the entertainment industry, but I certainly didn't take my last job hoping that I'd be laid off a year later. And I certainly didn't have a gazillion offers in the 6 figures to choose from either.
Updated On: 9/28/05 at 09:09 PM

[jonartdesigns]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#11

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:15pm

if mr hewitt was smart he could parlay this bad luck into something not so bad, just by having a payout clause in his contract so he'll be paid for the duration even if the show closes.... but seriously i do feel bad for him, although the urinetown tour did reasonably wel, and he was in that

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#12

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:20pm

yes. he was also in the lion king and the rocky horror show for which he was nominated for a tony award but apparently first came dracula and now doctor dolittle...

[lamentingenvelope]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#13

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:32pm

Yeah, I know, poor guy. He was one of the bright spots in that dismal show and I'd like to see him in something decent. He's quite talented.

[wickedrentq]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#14

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:39pm

Well then...suppose it really does suck to be him?

::couldn't resist::

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

[inlovewithjerryherman]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#15

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:43pm

I don't see why they changed anyhting from London etiehr...

cause what i saw in Pittsburgh was SINFULLY bad.

[BSoBW2]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#16

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:47pm

Tom Hewitt is awesome.

Wicked talented.

And he is such a nice person.

He deserves what his heart desires.

[BwayTheatre11]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#17

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:50pm

He is VERY talented. Most of the reviews say he saved the show from being a waste of time.

CCM '10!

[The Distinctive Baritone]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#18

Posted: 9/28/05 at 9:58pm

Yeah, poor Tom...having starred in six Broadway shows and being a Tony nominee to boot...may I be spared from such a terrible career.

[mominator]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#19

Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:10pm

Another Tom fan here. Saw Dracula just for him.

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[442namffug]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#20

Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:18pm

musicalsFAN....first of all, you are WAY out of line for wishing anything so horrible upon anyone--especially me.


What you said was not even close to being apropos to this situation. Never wish something so horrible upon anybody.

ESPECIALLY since I never said I HOPED Hewitt never got a job. I never said I HOPED no one would hire him. I never said I HOPED that he is forever out of work. I never called him un-talented and I certainly never offended you. All I said is that theatre these days (using Dracula and Dr. Doolittle as EXAMPLES) is absolute trash.


Rot in hell.
Updated On: 9/28/05 at 10:18 PM

[442namffug]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#21

Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:21pm

P.S. (or maybe P.M.S.)........

This is a Broadway and Theatre Message Board and an open forum for all opinions. For any of you to try to outright offend me or gang up and call my OPINIONS wrong is completely hypocritical and you do NOT belong on this board.

Your opinons and my opinions may be different, but you have no right to wish any hatred upon me, twist my words, or try to belittle my voice.
Updated On: 9/28/05 at 10:21 PM

[Shawk]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#22

Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:26pm

Wow, maybe you should take a step back. People disagreed with what they saw as your unfair condeming of Tom Hewitt (an actor with not limitless choices for roles) for being in bad shows (and if it was the bad shows you were condemning, that appears to have been unclear to a number of people, and also isn't really the topic of this thread), and some people used strong rhetoric (which I notice you using as well) to do so. I don't think anyone told you that you must like Tom Hewitt or the shows he is in, or that you must stop having an opinion. At the same time, everyone else gets to have opinions, too (and some of them are rude, and that's unfortunate but the way life goes).

People posting here don't actually know you. I doubt anyone really wishes you would lose your job and get no sympathy, but in the end, they're just words on a messageboard.

'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."' ~Lewis Carroll

Updated On: 9/28/05 at 10:26 PM

[442namffug]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#23

Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:33pm

What is this?????? IdiotsWorld.com or something???

"I don't think anyone told you that you must like Tom Hewitt or the shows he is in"

I NEVER SAID ANYONE DID......However, unless you are blind, someone wished that, because I think that Dr. Doolittle is a bad show and that it should never have been produced, I automatically should be denied the right to get a job or work in the future.


Do you think that is appropriate? Do you think that is reasonable? Do you think that has ANYTHING to do with this thread whatsoever??

No. Not at all. It was rude and unnecessary. I have no problem with anyone else's opinions and I never said I did, so cleary, Shawk, you are making things up or hallucinating.

However, when someone says something rude and slanderous, I will call them out on it and make sure it doesn't happen again.

Updated On: 9/28/05 at 10:33 PM

[442namffug]

re: Tom Hewitt Can't Catch A Break#24

Posted: 9/28/05 at 10:37pm

Clearly, I win.