Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:02am

I recently caught an episode with Michael Cerveris. He did OK, but just a bit too bland for me. I expected more energy and for him to leave a deeper impression on the viewer.
Updated On: 2/8/09 at 03:02 AM

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:17am

A particular performance that comes to my mind is that of Kerry O'Malley, who was absolutely stunning as a rape victim impregnated by her attacker on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Also noteworthy is Cynthia Nixon, who won an Emmy last year for her work on SVU as a woman with multiple personalities involved in a child's disappearance.

Updated On: 2/8/09 at 03:17 AM

[B3TA07]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:23am

Betty Buckley.


I rarely watch that show.

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:37am

I also don't watch it. That day I saw Cerveris' name, and decided to watch. Having been around for so long, the show has provided a lot of Broadway actors a nice opportunity to stay local, and still cross over to work in TV. Didn't Kristin Chenoweth also have a part once?

[binau]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:47am

Bernadette Peters was a lawyer on the show many years ago IIRC.

[Amaranth9]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 4:35am

Well the most obvious is Jesse L. Martin... =)

Wilson Jermaine Heredia, the original Angel in RENT was on an episode of SVU years back. I thought he was effective in it.

Different shows, but Megan Hilty was on Shark. Blake Bashoff of Spring Awakening and Tracie Thoms (after the movie but before her Broadway debut) were on Cold Case as well. I'm sure there have been more.

[FeelingElectric]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 5:59am

Two that stand out to me are Tony Roberts on Law & Order:CI as a shady boxing promoter, and the absolutely creepy performance of Martin Short on Law & Order:SVU as a psychic consulting on the case of a missing girl.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 6:32am

Tovah Feldshuh, who will be opening in IRENA'S VOW at the Walter Kerr next month in a transfer from Off-Broadway, frequntly plays a defense lawyer on LAW AND ORDER. She is a terrific actress and I am looking forward to seeing her on Broadway.

Michael Hayden, who scored as Billy Bigelow in the Lincoln Center CAROUSEL, has appeared in LAW AND ORDER. He had to play the part using a foreign accent in a strictly fair performance.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 7:07am

"Well the most obvious is Jesse L. Martin... =) "

I beg to differ. I think the most obvious would be Jerry Orbach :)

Matt Morrison, Michael Berresse, Yuka Takamura. Bebe Neuwirth had her own short-lived Trial By Jury. Kathleen Chalfont, Michael Mulharen and Susan Blackwell all had recurring roles as judges. Charlotte D'amboise (suspect). Karen Ziemba (unwitting fiance of a multiple murderer). Marion Seldes (really off the charts mother of a murderer).

That's off the top of my head. There's many, many more. It had gotten to the point that if you didn't have L&O on your resume, casting agents wanted to know why not.






Updated On: 2/10/09 at 07:07 AM

[cath2]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:16am

Christian Hoff did a fantastic job in a co-starring role as State Attorney Grady in the L & O episode "Players".

And Mark Lotito (Jersey Boys) can be seen every now in then in reruns as a policeman.

[dg22894]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:30am

Not on Law and Order but I was watching PS I love you and Susan Blackwell and Sherie Scott

[itwontbelongnowx]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:40am

...all of them?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:46am

I loved seeing Ethel Merman as the canibalisitc leader of a religious cult caught selling young girls into slavery.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:38am

Rebecca Luker did nice work as a guest star on SVU.

[nmartin]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:42am

Elaine Stritch won an Emmy as a feminist lawyer
George N. Martin is in an excellent one as a man with alzheimers.
Updated On: 2/8/09 at 10:42 AM

[AbbyNormal13]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:52am

Roger Bart was in a regular L & O episode and an SVU episode.

[tgn915]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 11:03am

Angela Lansbury was in an episode I caught a while ago.

I LOVED Cynthia Nixon. I am still effected by that episode.

[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 11:08am

Terrence Mann was a lawyer in two different episodes.

[spiritx33]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:14pm

Celia Keenan-Bolger was in an episode of L&O. And I think Anthony Rapp and Jane Krakowski played brother and sister in an episode of SVU.

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:34pm

Anthony Rapp, Jane Krakowski, Karen Olivo, Bobby Cannavale, Brandi Burkhardt, John Cullum and Christian Hoff.


Updated On: 2/8/09 at 12:34 PM

[AbbyNormal13]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:52pm

Kelly Sullivan was also in the beginning of a criminal intent episode.

[philly03]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 1:17pm

Likewise I don't really watch it, but I did once when Judy Kuhn was a battered wife (and you couldn't even tell it was her?); and Coleen Sexton I think was the girlfriend/baby momma of a drugdealer and her house got smoked or something..? I think that was on L&O??!

[dlass727]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 1:29pm

Tony Roberts has been on both Law and Order and Law and Order Criminal Intent. Mary Testa played a police officer in an episode of Law and Order.

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 2:59pm

Patti LuPone as a lawyer on the regular L&O. Also, Eden Espinosa was on SVU for all of three seconds.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:37pm

Sara Ramirez played an awesome hooker in an episode of SVU. Too bad she was only in the first 10 minutes. And actually, she was in another episode before that as well. She played the mother of a 6 year old boy who killed another child with a gun. Besides those 2 episodes, I don't normally watch the show.