Zack Morris Is Coming to the Stage!!!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 4:56pm

Holy Cow, I'm excited. Bring it, Preppy!

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/131720-Gosselaar_Kirk_and_White_to_Star_in_Rebeck%27s_Understudy_Off-Broadway

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 5:02pm

And yet you leave out that Justin Kirk will also be starring with Zack Morris (since that is his real name) and Julie White.

Too bad it's a Rebeck play.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 5:05pm

LOL. I did leave that out. I'm a child of the 80's, what can I say? Simple things like this excite me.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 5:12pm

Hopefully, Zack Morris wont make Justin Kirk wear a hoodie and relegate him to the back of the chorus.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 5:19pm

Mark-Paul Gosselaar was my first celebrity non-cartoon crush. I watched SAVED BY THE BELL just for him. Good times.

[blaxx]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 5:25pm

Did Mark-Paul Gosselaar get surgery? He just looks like he drank a rhytidectomy with botox on the rocks.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 6:04pm

He was very good the year they had him on 24, and also excellent on the final 3 seasons or so of NYPD Blue. He's not some hack.

[Craww]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 6:38pm

I'M SO EXCITED!

I'M SO EXCITED!

I'M SO (sob) SCARED!

[Eris0303]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 6:51pm

StageManager, who was your cartoon crush? Mine was the dude with the beret on GI Joe

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 7:03pm

blaxx made me laugh with that comment for the 1st time! LOL

First it was Elizabeth Berkley in Sly Fox, then it was Mario Lopez in A Chorus Line and now it's Mark-Paul.

Mario turned me on even more because of his body, but I'd sleep with Mark-Paul in a heartbeat.

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 7:19pm

When was Mark-Paul on 24? Must have stopped watching a season or two because I do not recall this at all. And in other news, I'm psyched for this. I love me some Justin Kirk (same thing I said about Ms. Parker - "you were in Angels, you're on Weeds. Thus I must love you.") and have liked Gosselaar since the Bells days, but also enjoyed him a LOT in that 90s movie Dead Man On Campus. Ah, Preppy...

Now if we could only get Valerie Malo...I mean Kelly Kapow...er... Tiffani Thiessen (is she still rockin' it Amber-less? I hate that.) it would make the Bell Triangle (Parallelogram??) complete.

Here's hoping Miss Bliss comes to BW sometime soon too.
Updated On: 8/5/09 at 07:19 PM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 7:25pm

She's still Amberless and has a new tv show coming

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 7:36pm

Eris, mine were Hank (older blond) from the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS animated series, and Wheeler from CAPTAIN PLANET. :-P

Updated On: 8/5/09 at 07:36 PM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 7:57pm

I remember Dungeons and Dragons. My dad used to tape Saturday morning cartoons for us. I may still have an episode around here somewhere.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 8:14pm

My first cartoon crush which I kinda still have...

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 8:43pm

off topic... but man... Dungeons and Dragons was one of my favorite cartoons! the entire series is on DVD... i should buy it... i forgot... did they ever get back home?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 8:45pm

I remember they got back in one episode but had to return for some reason.

[Miss Galinda]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 8:56pm

CRAWW - you totally made me laugh out loud! Gotta love a drug-addicted Jessie Spano. Has anyone seen the T-Shirt that says that? It's got a bottle of caffine pills on it.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 10:42pm

Too bad Rebeck sucks, but I'll go see it for the cast!

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:35am

Eris - see I just don't like it without the Amber; good to know that she has something new coming out though. After all those years on The Bell and then on 90210 she really proved she can hold her own (mainly on the latter, as ridiculous as it got at times) in terms of acting. So it's just strange to see so many of those people not get work.

It's kind of how I feel about Lacey Chabert and Neve Campbell. I watched Party of Five like an addict and over the course of a bunch of years those two (along with a younger Jennifer Love Hewitt) really showed that they can handle anything. And yet other than some teen movies and horror films respectively, they haven't really done much since. The only alums from Po5 who really did anything are Matthew Fox (LOST) and the aforementioned Hewitt, although she is dreadfully misused on Ghost Whisperer (I know she's the star, I just mean that she can handle so much more than a weekly scarefest).

Same thing can kind of be said for Saved By The Bell. Gosselaar has been in a lot of stuff since then. Immediately following SBTB: The College Years, Thiessen moved on to 90210 (which was strange since she went from being at California University as Kelly in May of '94 to playing Valerie on Beverly Hills, a character who starts at California University the Fall of '94), but like I said she hasn't done much lately. Lark, Dustin...'nuff said. Mario Lopez has arguably the most fame of it, but really what has that got him? A replacement role in A Chorus Line? Replacing Sugar Ray on Extra?? Oh, and who could forget the legendary career jump for Jessie Spano. It's one thing to go from Nicey-Nice Kelly to Uber-Bitch Valerie like Thiessen did. Elizabeth Berkley went from feminist conservative good girl to a Showgirl. And even though it pretty much destroyed her career (except for First Wives Club and more recent things) I'm so glad she did, because as awful as Showgirls is it's still so camp and so wonderful.

Speaking of Elizabeth Berkley, I sooo want a shirt that says that I'm so Excited crap. I'm not sure how many of you watch Chelsea Lately, but when Berkley was on she re-did that line and it was just so fantastic. Seriously...some amazing times.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:52am

Oh, I hope he's blond for this show!

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 2:21am

here's the clip of Elizabeth doing the I'm so excited line..
Elizabeth Berkley on Chelsea Lately

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 3:11am

And for those missing the real thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c

And yes, that *was* the first hit for "Jessie Spano"

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 4:13am

Thank you both for posting those. I hadn't seen the Chelsea Lately clip since it aired. I love the game they play.

"Whose side are you on??"

[Eris0303]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 8:59am

I've been seeing a commercials for the new show since I watch a lot of USA (Burn Notice, Psych, In Plain Sight). It, basically, looks like "Catch Me If You Can: The TV Series". A con artist is released from prison to help catch other con artists.
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