Who has been missing for too long

Gavin Creel and Patti LuPone for me. Miss them.

Shannon Durig (Tracy Turnblad, Hairspray) was one of my favorites, I wish she would come back to Broadway! Same goes for Niki Scalera & Tevin Campbell (also Hairspray alum).

I second Gavin Creel. Also, Kacie Sheik & Julia Murney.

--Raul Esparza
--Julia Murney
--Gavin Creel
--Steel Burkhardt
--John Gallagher Jr
--Sandy Duncan
--Luba Mason
--Michele Pawk
--Dick Latessa
--Mandy Gonzalez

I just saw Gavin Creel last week in BOM (on tour). He's not absent from "the boards", although he is absent from the specific boards of Broadway for the time being.

I second Douglas Sills. I still obsess over his voice on the Pimpernel album.

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Christine Ebersole

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Just saw Marc Kudisch in The Wayside Motor in at Signature a few weeks ago. He was also in Hand to God last season. He hasn't been on Broadway in a bit, but definitely not absent in New York.

Really liked Douglas Sills in White Noise in Chicago.

Daisy Eagan and Andrea McArdle! Love them both.

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I mean. Raúl is on your TV like, six times a week. It's no third dimension, but it's preferable to having fallen off the public planet.

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Updated On: 10/10/14 at 11:12 AM

Raul Esparza. TV is fine but theater is more interesting.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Many Broadway stars are going to TV as it is a way to pickup $$ between shows. If nothing turns up on Broadway and the series is a hit, you have a nice paycheck. I do not fault Esparza or anyone else for doing TV. Remember when movie actors disdained TV work.

Hugh Dancy has more of an opportunity on Hannibal than appears to be the case on Broadway which depends on the whims of a few deciding whether your show succeeds or not.

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Mr Roxy, you know Stokes is performing at Encores! soon, right? It's not long-term or anything, but I wish I could go. It's been so long!

And yeah, that's all true of TV, but I think the other thing is that in some cases, if it's a hit show or a new show that does well, there's an opportunity to build name recognition that you didn't have before, and frankly, just can't get in the same way in the theatre world. SVU and Hannibal have both gained Raúl a ton of new, seemingly super-devoted and adoring fans all over the country, and they're building him recognition that could be good leverage and help draw more people in when he decides to come back to the stage. And at a time when your name has to be able to sell tickets, that can be just as important at the immediate returns of a killer paycheck.

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Updated On: 10/10/14 at 02:08 PM