#26
Posted: 8/19/14 at 11:18pm
Paulo Szot: lots of opera nationally and in Europe. His star went up, ironically, after he was in a hit musical.
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#27
Posted: 8/19/14 at 11:20pm
"he won't ever be on Broadway again due to the vocal injury he sustained"
Was his vocal injury really that serious that he will never fully recover and get back on Broadway?
Was his vocal injury really that serious that he will never fully recover and get back on Broadway?
#28
Posted: 8/19/14 at 11:26pm
Kazee has been doing concerts, and I believe was at 54 Below. This was after his time in Once was over. If that's the case, then I don't think that his vocal injury was as bad as some in this thread are making it out to be. Yes, Glen Hansard's songs are very range-y and not easy to sing. Considering that Kazee did the show off Broadway and then Broadway for awhile, it wouldn't surprise me that his voice gave out after all that time.
Fun Once tidbit, speaking of the songs being hard to sing, Glen Hansard wasn't originally slated to act in the film, he was, however brought on to write the songs. However, when the actor they originally cast as Guy couldn't sing the songs correctly, they had Hansard play the part.
Fun Once tidbit, speaking of the songs being hard to sing, Glen Hansard wasn't originally slated to act in the film, he was, however brought on to write the songs. However, when the actor they originally cast as Guy couldn't sing the songs correctly, they had Hansard play the part.
#29
Posted: 8/19/14 at 11:39pm
Yeah. He still does concerts and all that, but I read in an interview last year that the Broadway, eight shows a week schedule was too much for his voice after the injury, and he was at risk of hemorrhaging a vocal cord.
Updated On: 8/19/14 at 11:39 PM
#30
Posted: 8/20/14 at 12:02am
Cillian Murphy was supposed to play Guy in the ONCE film, but it obviously didn't work out.
#31
Posted: 8/20/14 at 12:52am
What about Levi Kreis for Million Dollar Quartet? I just read about him on Wikipedia but I don't think he's been back to Broadway since? It's only been 4 years since, but still.
#32
Posted: 8/20/14 at 12:53am
Levi Kreis kind of came out of nowhere and won the Tony in 2010, then virtually disappeared from the Theatre scene until he appeared again this year as a replacement in Violet.
edit: Granted he does have a recording career.
edit: Granted he does have a recording career.
Updated On: 8/20/14 at 12:53 AM
#33
Posted: 8/20/14 at 8:20am
Michael Maguire
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#34
Posted: 8/20/14 at 8:38am
In addition to Violet, Levi was in Smokey Joe's Cafe at Arena Stage in DC.
#35
Posted: 8/20/14 at 9:32am
Stephanie D'Abruzzo. Oh wait, she didn't win. Whatever happened to her though
#36
Posted: 8/20/14 at 10:32am
John Lloyd Young (other than return engagements as Frankie Valli)
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#37
Posted: 8/20/14 at 11:59am
Robert Lindsay, Frances Ruffelle, Ron Leibman, Viola Davis, Eddie Redmayne
Updated On: 8/20/14 at 11:59 AM
#38
Posted: 8/20/14 at 6:11pm
^The last two do have big movie careers now, and Redmayne did do the LES MIS film.
#39
Posted: 8/20/14 at 6:14pm
Stephanie D'Abruzzo, though she has not performed on Broadway since Avenue Q, has done theatrical work elsewhere. She also is a puppeteer on Sesame Street, so I imagine that's her primary work at the moment.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#40
Posted: 8/20/14 at 7:07pm
Didn't Sara Ramirez flee to TV after winning for Spamalot? Any stage-work since?
#41
Posted: 8/20/14 at 8:32pm
Robert Lindsay is currently starring in the West End production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
#42
Posted: 8/20/14 at 10:51pm
Sara Ramirez is the first person who came to mind. Heather Headley too, although she has a music career.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#43
Posted: 8/20/14 at 11:05pm
"Top billing Monday, Tuesday you're touring in stock..."
#44
Posted: 8/21/14 at 8:41am
Stephanie did not win the Tony for Q.
Christian Hoff? Excepting his brief stint in Pal Joey.
Christian Hoff? Excepting his brief stint in Pal Joey.
#45
Posted: 8/21/14 at 3:05pm
Brian Backer "The Floating Lightbulb"
Nice is different than good.
#46
Posted: 8/21/14 at 4:07pm
Poor old Barbra Streisand - after winning hers in 1970, she hasn't trod the Broadway boards since. Not sure whatever happened to her.
#47
Posted: 8/21/14 at 4:38pm
No, Sara left as soon as ABC offered her a role on any television show they had. She chose Grey's Anatomy and never looked back.
Updated On: 8/21/14 at 04:38 PM
#48
Posted: 8/21/14 at 4:52pm
Scott Waara owns this thread. He won the Tony for playing Herman in THE MOST FELLA in 1992 and then retired from acting.
#49
Posted: 8/22/14 at 12:43am
Stephanie D'Abruzzo (yes, I know she didn't win) works constantly. So does Heather Headley...she does exactly what she wants to do.
Threads like this make me wonder if some posters really understand what it's like to live the life of an actor. There are about ten people who jump from one Broadway show to the next; the rest of the industry can spend years in between doing good solid work across the country/around the world. Or pop up on TV/in movies in small roles that pay the equivalent of a month's Broadway salary. Such is the life of an actor.
Oh, and those TV and film roles have the power to raise an actor's profile and make them more of a hot commodity in the theatre. I promise that Headley, Ramirez, and several others mentioned in this thread have turned down a lot of Broadway jobs to keep doing what they're doing.
Threads like this make me wonder if some posters really understand what it's like to live the life of an actor. There are about ten people who jump from one Broadway show to the next; the rest of the industry can spend years in between doing good solid work across the country/around the world. Or pop up on TV/in movies in small roles that pay the equivalent of a month's Broadway salary. Such is the life of an actor.
Oh, and those TV and film roles have the power to raise an actor's profile and make them more of a hot commodity in the theatre. I promise that Headley, Ramirez, and several others mentioned in this thread have turned down a lot of Broadway jobs to keep doing what they're doing.
#50
Posted: 8/22/14 at 9:47am
but I read in an interview last year that the Broadway, eight shows a week schedule was too much for his voice after the injury, and he was at risk of hemorrhaging a vocal cord.
This is a case of selective reading. Take a look at the quote, particularly the bolded portion:
Ultimately, I could have vocally done the show, but I really would have run the risk of doing serious damage, doing that particular role eight times a week. I did it for a year and a half and had zero vocal problems. It just so happens that it's a muscle like everything else and it gets tired and overworked.
This is a case of selective reading. Take a look at the quote, particularly the bolded portion:
Ultimately, I could have vocally done the show, but I really would have run the risk of doing serious damage, doing that particular role eight times a week. I did it for a year and a half and had zero vocal problems. It just so happens that it's a muscle like everything else and it gets tired and overworked.
"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: 8/22/14 at 09:47 AM
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