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Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
#25re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 3:48pmTina Maddigan is the girl next door. All guys love those types. They may say they want the short tight skirts and stilettos, but I'll take her big gold beaded necklace and old lady pocketbook any day!
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#26re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:10pm
"That last comment was not about Tina, Phantom2"
LOL! I think Phantom2 is always thinking of Tina (the girl with the golden hair, that is).
#27re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:12pmShe's a beautiful thought!
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#28re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:13pm
Tina is like "the girl next door"- she is very sweet and very pretty
but me as a guy, i think Caren Lyn Manuel is HOT (physically and career wise), and i want to see TIMES THEY ARE...just for her! she is so talented, and has an amazing body...
#29re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:29pmYou said it perfectly, Phantom2.
To Kill A Mockingbird
#30re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:30pmWhy thank you!
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
missyrose87
Stand-by Joined: 2/4/06
#31re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:32pmI like how moxieinthecity spelled both kristin and idinas names wrong, and they are both at the top of the hot list!
MOXIEINTHECITY
Broadway Star Joined: 5/11/06
#32re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:45pm
Like, omigod, do you? Did you pass a note in algebra to your BFF and say that, too?
Or, like, are you not, like, a real fan unless you can spell every single name correctly? Is that part of the rule book?
Seriously, spare me your petty schoolgirl snipes.
Updated On: 8/26/06 at 04:45 PM
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#33re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:48pm
Moxie, tell me why you think some of those performers have hot careers.
The questions are open to everyone.
Are there any whose career seems cold? Why? Anyone whose career seems cold and you think it shouldn't be and you can't understand why?
Updated On: 8/26/06 at 04:48 PM
MOXIEINTHECITY
Broadway Star Joined: 5/11/06
#34re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 5:05pm
"Moxie, tell me why you think some of those performers have hot careers. "
I think Sutton Foster's career speaks for itself. 3 Tony noms in, what, four years? Little Women was a bad play, but she was often singled out in the reviews, and she rebounded quickly with Drowsy.
Dominic Cooper just has that charisma that Law had when he first came out in Indiscretions. There was something about him. Something that, when you saw him, made you want to see more. The fact that he's handsome and charming and talented doesn't hurt. Let's see if he stays with Broadway, though.
Cynthia Nixon managed to side step the whole post-SATC stereotype thing, unlike Kim Catrall who will probably from here on out be typecast. Plus, Nixon's been on Broadway off an on for years and consistently gotten great reviews.
JLY & Christian Hoff - Tony winners with great shows behind them and talent/reviews to boot.
queendork
Understudy Joined: 6/28/06
#35re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:30pmUpdated On: 8/28/06 at 07:30 PM
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#36re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:33pmWhat is it about O'Bryne's acting that makes him so in demand, queendork?
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#37re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:36pm
Queendork, you took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to say that the most in-demand actor NOW is Brian F. O'Byrne. He's had the most constant work of anyone I can remember. In 2006, he's in 4 shows, alone (Shining City and the 3 Coast of Utopia plays). Plus Doubt.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#39re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:44pmBecause he commands a stage. He doesn't need dialogue to get an audience to look at him. He's always in character and always in the moment.
To Kill A Mockingbird
queendork
Understudy Joined: 6/28/06
#40re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:46pmUpdated On: 8/28/06 at 07:46 PM
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#41re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:51pm
Love it.
Who else? What of cold careers? anyone want to rant to get a favorite back onstage and tell why, why, why?
#42re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:58pmPatrick Wilson's career is hot. Just not on Broadway. Like previous people in this post have said, he doing film's now because he has a family and films pay more and aren't that much of a commitment.
GladysBumps
Stand-by Joined: 5/14/03
#43re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 8:06pm
Bryan O'Bern listens better than any actor currently working with the possible exception of David Stratherin Forgive spellings, Im a chorine, not an english teacher, okay?
I wanna do a list of FUTURE HOT:
(and in brackets, my reason)
Johnathan Groff (SpringAwakening)
John Gallagher Jr. (SpringAwakening)
Thomas Sadoski (AllThisIntimacy)
Jessica Hecht (TheHouseInTown)
Logan Marshall Green (PigFarm et al)
Pablo Schreiber (Mauscript/AwakeAndSing)
Julie White (LittleDogLaughed)
Jennifer Mudge (ThePavilion)
Michael Arden (SwimmingInTheShallows)
Jesse Tyler Furguson (SpellingBee et al)
Josh Hamilton (HurlyBurly et al)
Adam Rothenberg (DannyAndTheDeepBlueSea/WoodenBreeks)
Lily Rabe (SteelMagnolias et al)
Steven Lynch (WeddingSinger)
Updated On: 8/26/06 at 08:06 PM
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#44re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 8:09pm
Gladys, dear, you could make up your own thread for future hots. This thread doesn't have to be all things at once. :)
Hot, cold careers and why?
Or does it just look that way?
GladysBumps
Stand-by Joined: 5/14/03
#45re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 8:20pm
Sorry darling, Mother just got carried away. Didn't mean to step on your toes.
Kisses,
Gladys
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#46re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 8:24pmYour enthusiasm is adorable, Gladys!
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#47re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 8:37pm
While I can see where you're going with this, it is far to difficult for even the biggest stars on Broadway to jump from show to show. You really have to look at the actor's career as a whole to see if they're "hot" or not.
I look at "hot" as in demand, and we really don't have that as much anymore on the Great White Way. It's not like the days of Martin, Hayes, Merman, Lunt, Fontanne...
But there are very few exceptions: Nixon, Byrne, Jones...but they're not just appearing on Broadway, but off-Broadway, etc...it should be more of a question of who is hot in the theatre world.
To each his own, though.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#48re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 8:54pm
It's true, Off Broadway and perhaps some forays of regional theatre should be included, as when a successful Broadway show tours and a lead goes with it, for example.
Or when a show like Drowsy has its out-of-town start.
#49re: Whose Broadway Career is Hot, Whose Cold? Why?
Posted: 8/26/06 at 9:45pm
Cynthia Nixon managed to side step the whole post-SATC stereotype thing, unlike Kim Catrall who will probably from here on out be typecast.
Following the conclusion of Sex and the City, Kim Cattrall received raves for her performance as paraplegic Claire Harrison in Brian Clark's WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? in the West End. This was an intense, dramatic play about the notions of life and death. I'd say Ms. Cattrall pretty successfully broke out of any typecasting strait-jacket to which you seem to be proclaiming she will forever be bound.
-Kad
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