Jason Raize's death was so unexpected and so sad. I love his voice very much.
Cy Coleman's death was so sudden, it was like woah!
I didn't know that Steve Barton was dead, how did he die?
As for David Carrol, my teacher was besdt friends with him as kids and adults, and she told me about how sad it was.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
I think Jason Raize's death was the saddest for me. Most everyone else that was mentioned on the board lived full and sucessful lives. Jason, on the other hand, had his whole life before him. I don't understand would have caused him to believe suicide was the best way to go. Had he lived longer, who knows how much more he could have contributed.
In 2002, Jesus Christ Superstar tour played near my place with Carl, but I missed the show. And in 2004 I knew that Carl passed away. One of the most regrets in my theatre life.
my greatest shock, and i blocked it out until this minute, was lynne thigpen. i had a twilight zone moment when i heard. she was one of the liveliest people you would ever meet. her death was an awful blow and i carried it around for a while.
Definetly Jerry Orbach was one. I was really upset when I first heard. It's still hard to believe.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Michael Jeter -- such a comedic genious. It's hard to imagine someone that makes that many people laugh having to die. Same thing rings true for Madeline Kahn -- such a FUNNY, talented woman who went WAY before her time.
as for non-theater related deaths, nothing blew me away more than the death of River Phoenix.
"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
Anne Bancroft's death really saddened me. I hadn't known that she was ill. In her career she won a Tony for Miracle Worker, an Emmy and an Academy Award. My impression had always been that she and Mel Brooks had an amazing marriage and that he adored her. I felt as if she was his life force and so felt as if not only did the theater community lose a great talent, but that it might take Mel Brooks a long time to recover his passion
The ones we lost in their prime always get me... I often wonder what theatre would be like now, if they had been around longer.
Michael Bennett
Jerry Ross - together with his partner Richard Adler, Jerry wrote "The Pajama Game" and "Damn Yankees." He died at the youthful age of 29, winning both his Tonys for "Damn Yankees" posthumously.
Jonathan Larson
PERFORMERS: Ron Richardson (Tony winner for Big River), Timothy Scott (B'way's first Mr. Mistoffelees), Gregg Burge (Sophisticated Ladies)... So many others.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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I was just copying my 1999 clip of some of the Chicago cast singing Christmas carols on the Today show for somebody, and it struck me that two of the people in it are no longer with us, Greg Mitchell and Mark Arvin. Both gone way too early.
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.