Whatever happened to Amy Spanger?
#3
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:15am
Wasn't she just in a workshop for a musical with Mickey Dolenz? I remember reading that somewhere.
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#4
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:26am
tazber, Spanger just did a reading in March of a new musical called GARAGE BAND being shepherded by Ken Davenport with Mickey Dolenz, Beth Leavel, Andy Karl, and a slew of others.
She did a musical a couple years ago at the Old Globe in San Diego with Casey Nicholaw based on the film ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS (just before they worked together on ELF together that subsequent fall.) Last I heard, Nicholaw's still trying to get it off the ground, and I believe Spanger remained attached in the last workshop they did relatively recently.
She did a musical a couple years ago at the Old Globe in San Diego with Casey Nicholaw based on the film ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS (just before they worked together on ELF together that subsequent fall.) Last I heard, Nicholaw's still trying to get it off the ground, and I believe Spanger remained attached in the last workshop they did relatively recently.
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#5
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:48am
Wasn't she also in the OBC of Rock of Ages? I was sad I didn't see her. I would love to see her perform in person
#6
Posted: 4/14/12 at 3:51pm
She also played Diana in a workshop/reading of FEELING ELECTRIC (NEXT TO NORMAL)
#8
Posted: 4/14/12 at 7:23pm
She has a hard time sticking with any one project. She gets something big and then leaves because of "vocal issues".
#9
Posted: 4/14/12 at 7:51pm
As far as I know she has only left one show due to vocal issues, Rock of Ages.
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#10
Posted: 4/14/12 at 11:09pm
She is shooting a tv pilot for USA Network. I love her and hope it gets picked up.
#11
Posted: 4/15/12 at 4:58pm
I recall seeing pictures of her in PETER PAN. Was it at the Paper Mill?
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#12
Posted: 4/15/12 at 5:13pm
She left Sunset Blvd before her contract was up, as well as ditching The Wedding Singer prematurely because of "vocal issues".
#13
Posted: 4/15/12 at 6:36pm
She didn't ditch The Wedding Singer prematurely, although I believe she missed quite a few performances at the beginning of the run.
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#14
Posted: 4/15/12 at 7:01pm
Spanger was with The Wedding Singer for it's entire run. She was out of the show briefly on mandatory vocal rest.
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#15
Posted: 4/15/12 at 10:56pm
Her understudy went on more than she did. :/
#16
Posted: 4/16/12 at 10:07am
Whether I'm proud to admit it or not, I was a huge Wedding Singer fanboy and went to many performances. Amy missed a few performances here and there, but not NEAR as many as Laura Benanti missed due to "vocal issues". Tina Maddigan went on for her constantly and actually replaced her for a short while. Point being, Amy didn't miss THAT much, and her understudy certainly did not go on more than she did.
Updated On: 4/16/12 at 10:07 AM
#17
Posted: 4/16/12 at 10:13am
I hear that she disappeared into the woods of Long Island one night after hitting a deer on the Sunrise Highway, and that she emerges on moonless nights carrying a hook and seeking victims to provide her with fresh blood to stave off "vocal issues."
#18
Posted: 4/16/12 at 10:29am
Her understudy went on more than she did. :/
Simply not true, but believe it if you want to. I love how people just come to this site and make up "facts" to suit their needs.
Simply not true, but believe it if you want to. I love how people just come to this site and make up "facts" to suit their needs.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 4/16/12 at 10:29 AM
#19
Posted: 4/16/12 at 10:51am
Clearly she must have been making up these vocal issues to get out of having to do shows. I mean it certainly just can't be possible that someone who performs 8 times a week would actually have some serious vocal problems at some point.
#20
Posted: 4/16/12 at 12:11pm
She had the same vocal problems during "Rock of Ages". And I stand by the statement that her understudy went on more than she did during "The Wedding Singer".
#21
Posted: 4/16/12 at 1:02pm
You can stand on top of your statement and it still won't make it true, monkey - and I'm not even a Spanger fan.
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