Who is Denis O'Hare?

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Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:25pm

I work at Immigration at the Vancouver Airport and a guy named Denis O'Hare came in a few days ago with a work permit to work on Once Upon A Mattress. who is he? The name sounds familiar. Oh yeah, some woman named Bernadette Peters came in too. I told her to go to the end of the line. Who's THAT?! (Just kidding. But I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for her and Miss Burnett in the next few days.)

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:27pm

Denis O'Hare is fabulous. An amazingly versatile actor.

I saw him in TAKE ME OUT and he was captivating. He had me hanging on every word.

Most recently, he was in ASSASSINS.

He's great.

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:28pm

Denis O'Hare has most notably been in Take Me Out, he won the Tony..and he was just in the revival of assassins playing Charles Guiteau.

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:28pm

Denis O'Hare was in the original cast of the Cabaret revival, he was also in ASSASSINS. However, his biggest role was in TAKE ME OUT, in which he won a Tony Award (and kept his clothes on!)

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:33pm

Aw, man! I kind of regret being rude to him then.

What's the premise of Once Upon A Mattress, anyway? Who do you think he's playing?

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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:33pm

Regardless of all of the hype about Daniel Sunjata and the other naked bodies in Take Me Out, this show belonged to Denis O'Hare and he was just incredible in it. I saw it just a few days before it closed and feel really privileged to have seen his Tony award-winning performance!

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:34pm

and NUMEROUS guest appearances on the numerous Law and Order shows...

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:34pm

ONCE UPON A MATRESS is a musical parody of the fairy tale, "The Princess and the Pea".

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:35pm

Mattress was mentioned up above...is it true it's being remade for TV? With Carol Burnett as Agravain, and the fat girl from Hairspray (can't remember her name) as Fred?

Anyone know who's playing Dauntless?

#10

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:50pm

Denis is one of the sweetest men around.
Did you discuss politics with him?
He is a hoot!

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:50pm

computer glitch.
He also won a Drama Desk award and the DERWENT award for cash last year.
Kerry Butler also won that award.

Updated On: 8/12/04 at 04:50 PM

#12

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:40pm

Was he clean-shaven or did he still have his ASASSINS beard?
I hear his boyfriend HATED the beard... :)

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#13

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:44pm

Marissa Jaret Winokur is NOT doing the new TV version of Mattress. The star is Tracey Ullman. Yes, Burnett is playig the queen.

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:51pm

Denis is amazing amazing amazing!

He was in Cabaret, Take Me Out and Assassins!!

:)

Where's Cabarethed?
She'll tell ya!

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re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:55pm

Denis O'Hare is the actor who should have won the Tony for Assassins.

Okay.....I'd better run and hide now! :)

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#16

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 6:00pm

Who'd he play in TAKE ME OUT? I LOVE LOVE LOVE the book. I bought it off Amazon. :)

#17

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 6:18pm

He played the man who owned the stadium and then decided to sell it. He was excellent!

#18

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 6:50pm

I don't know what his beard looked like in Assassins, but off the plane, he just looked like he had a 5 o'clock shadow. He was a pretty nice guy, but I wasn't really the nicest person to him. I sort of, uh, scolded him and told him to go back in line when he came up to my (empty) counter when I was doing paper work. I didn't make the connection until I went, "Matress Productions Ltd? Wait a minute!" He was very patient with me though. Will keep you posted with the arrival of Ms. Burnett and Ms. Peters.

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"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

Updated On: 8/12/04 at 06:50 PM

#19

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 7:46pm

whoa whoa whoa! hold on a minute there, jayem!

ok i loved Denis O'Hare in Assassins(look at the bottom of my post) but, he was no Michael Cerveris! MC gave humanity to one of the more hated Assasins or attempted assassins of all time(i hate admitting this but i cried in the ballad of booth when the barn was on fire right before the shot) But, Cerveris got his long deserved Tony for an amazing performance

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#20

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:25pm

I adore Cerveris and thought his acting in Assassins to be perfection - it was his horrible rendition of a southern accent that got on my nerves.

Still - it was a well deserved Tony. I wish I could have given it to O'Hare/Cerveris/Kudisch all at once! :

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#21

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:26pm

ok you got a point. You forgot though neil patrick harris

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"Look on the Bright Side Not on the Blackside get off your backside shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity: Your the lightning and the news!" -Assassins

#22

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:32pm

Damnnnn....You know, I think we just have to give in and nominate the entire cast. I am really going to miss that production.

p.s. I was at the final performance on the 18th and when they broke into the finale of Everybody's Got the Right - I burst into tears and the woman next to me hugged me (I still have no idea who she was). You are not alone!

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#23

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:35pm

haha i lvoe the magic of theatre. That was a great show. for that show alone i think that Roundabout should change their contracts.

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"Look on the Bright Side Not on the Blackside get off your backside shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity: Your the lightning and the news!" -Assassins

#24

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/13/04 at 12:14am

<----- *points giddily to my icon (and quote) *
That would be him! I adore him like no other. He is so brilliant onstage and such a doll in person. I'm so excited that he's going to be in Once Upon A Mattress, thanks for the info! No beard?? Awww.
I've never seen his Law and Orders, which really saddens me. I have to go investigate that.

#25

re: Who is Denis O'Hare?

Posted: 8/13/04 at 12:19am

Imdb says he played Father Morgan on an ep of L&O:SVU...is that the pedophile one? Or was that Eric Schulz...

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"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell