Posted: 8/3/17 at 3:28pm
How coincidental that this 42nd Street opening be overshadowed, as the OBP'S was when Gower Champion died the afternoon of the opening night and David Merrick informed the audience and the cast of his death with a dramatic curtain call announcement.
Posted: 8/3/17 at 3:40pm
"Police were actively looking for him, and pulled him over in his Ford Bronco."
Shades of OJ!
Posted: 8/3/17 at 5:57pm
Was this production trying to make it to Broadway next season?
Posted: 8/3/17 at 7:48pm
Damn, another Pierre down for the count. Dust and ashes.
LMAO.
Posted: 8/3/17 at 10:53pm
David10086 said: "Was this production trying to make it to Broadway next season?
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We're talking about Reagle Music Theatre, a very small summer-stock regional theatre. So.... no, definitely not.
Posted: 8/4/17 at 1:22am
The Distinctive Baritone said: "Well, he's 65. At least he can get retirement now that his career is over."
Being accused of sexual assault has ruined so many white men's careers, I simply cannot think of just one.
Posted: 8/4/17 at 1:27am
David10086 said: "Probably arrested for that, if he admitted to it. "
You don't have to admit to possessing cocaine. You just possess it.
Posted: 8/4/17 at 7:53am
Actually it is a serious subject and very sad if indeed it is proven that he violated another person.... But dang... have to wonder if he is some kind of Trump supporter - - "grabbing her by the P...y."
Posted: 8/4/17 at 1:33pm
haterobics said: "David10086 said: "Probably arrested for that, if he admitted to it. "
You don't have to admit to possessing cocaine. You just possess it."
He pleaded 'not guilty' to both charges - the drug charge and the sexual assault charge. He did admit he 'flirts' with women and likes to be friendly with his costars, but has never done anything which is considered sexual assault. He was freed on $1,000 bail.
Posted: 8/4/17 at 2:34pm
Actually, he admitted to the police that the cocaine was just a small portion of a larger amount he keeps at home in a "sandwich hefty bag".
Posted: 8/4/17 at 3:33pm
haterobics said: "Just a good ol' boy, never meaning no harm... "
Holy shoot - I laughed so hard when I read this .....
Posted: 8/5/17 at 12:35am
Hope he gets the help he needs, probably a nice guy when sober.
Posted: 8/7/17 at 7:23am
VintageSnarker said: "Is this the production with Rachel York?
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It is. She was well reviewed in the Boston Globe for the role.
And I happened to be next to Wopat at a sports bar in West Village a few years back -- we were each rooting for our teams on adjacent TVs. He was very nice, it may have helped that I didn't let him know I knew who he was, it was just football.
Posted: 8/7/17 at 7:47am
Wee Thomas2 said: "VintageSnarker said: "Is this the production with Rachel York?
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It is. She was well reviewed in the Boston Globe for the role.
And I happened to be next to Wopat at a sports bar in West Village a few years back -- we were each rooting for our teams on adjacent TVs. He was very nice, it may have helped that I didn't let him know I knew who he was, it was just football.
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York has performed with Reagle quite often. I saw her in their Into the Woods a few years ago.
Their stuff isn't Broadway worthy, but it's quite good. But, from what I've seen, very straightforward and expected.
Posted: 8/7/17 at 8:06am
Liza's Headband said: "David10086 said: "Was this production trying to make it to Broadway next season?
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We're talking about Reagle Music Theatre, a very small summer-stock regional theatre. So.... no, definitely not.
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Really you didn't get that they where joking!
Posted: 8/7/17 at 8:52am
rosscoe(au) said: "Liza's Headband said: "David10086 said: "Was this production trying to make it to Broadway next season?
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We're talking about Reagle Music Theatre, a very small summer-stock regional theatre. So.... no, definitely not.
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Really you didn't get that they where joking!
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Apparently not. You figured that out, though.
Posted: 8/8/17 at 3:04pm
Wopat 'firmly denies' the allegations of groping a female member of the company, and looks like he has his lawyers working on this to 'restore his good name'.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Veteran-Tom-Wopat-Issues-Statement-Firmly-Denies-Groping-Charges-20170808
Posted: 9/26/17 at 5:58pm
Posted: 9/26/17 at 6:23pm
Lol. I've done Reagle Players. I didn't know that that was the show he was arrested during. I understand why he was doing the toot toot then. Def not making excuses for him, but the theatre company praises the NY actors that they pay to do their shows to the point of humiliating the local people they cast and tell them that they're lucky to be working with professional actors. Just saying that the atmosphere is like one in the church where the Priest can do no wrong. On a creative level...who am I kidding, there is nothing creative about them. Everything has to be done "just like it was on Broadway".
Posted: 9/26/17 at 8:34pm
Oh wow, hey Andrew Lloyd Webber, I've found your next Phantom!!!
Posted: 9/26/17 at 10:28pm
"...and two counts of accosting or annoying another person, court records show." Huh?
Posted: 9/27/17 at 1:27am
As if his "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" opposite Barbara Cook could get any creepier!
Updated On: 9/27/17 at 01:27 AM
