Bible verses in Playbills?
Bible verses in Playbills?
#1Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 5:57pm
I was wondering if anyone knows of actors/actresses who list bible verses in their Playbill bios, and if so, which specific verses? I've noticed that many do, and I think it's interesting!
Thanks!
#2Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 6:07pmYes, let's name and shame them.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#2Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 6:29pm
Norm Lewis: "Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse." (1 Peter 2:1
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#3Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 6:30pmSutton Foster: "Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses." (1 Samuel 15:3)
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#4Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 6:31pm
Stephanie J. Block: "You shall not let a sorceress live." (Exodus 22:1
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#5Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 6:32pmPatti LuPone: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She must be quiet." (1 Timothy 2:12)
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#7Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 6:59pmJoe, I love you.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
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#8Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 7:21pmJessica Goldyn and Tony Yazbeck used to. Don't recall specifics.
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#9Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 7:23pm"If food you're cooking falls on the floor, you have 5 seconds to pick it up if you still want to serve it". Wait...that's not from the bible, is it?
#10Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 7:27pmGood for them!! Happy Holy Thursday everybody!!
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#11Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 7:33pmI, on the other hand, love when I see a Bible verse in Playbill Bios. :) I admire actors who believe in Him and let it be known to the world by sharing a favorite verse that they feel best represents themselves or their experience in their show. Thanks, greengirl11 for asking this question! Ya got me searching Playbill Vault for more! :)
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#12Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 7:40pm
I like them, but I can't remember any of the specific ones off the top of my head. 
Probably some of the Psalms about singing and dancing show up a lot!
#13Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 7:47pm
Laura Michelle Kelly-Phil 4:13
Celisse Henderson-Jeremiah 29:11
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#14Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 7:58pm
Michael Cerveris
"Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.' 2 Kings 2:23-24
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#15Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 8:02pm
If I recall correctly, Tony Yazbeck's was "Man shall not lie with man as with a woman unless it's me and findingnamo." J/K! Not Really.
Very sweet.
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#16Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 8:08pmHAHA Joe! You just made me laugh out loud especially at the Sutton Foster one!
#17Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 10:12pm
Surprised you didn't go with Jeremy Piven's bible verse, Joe.
Leviticus 11:12 - "Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you."
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#18Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 10:58pmhenrik wins the thread.
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#19Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/28/13 at 11:25pmI admire the performers who put verse references in their bios, even when faith is not a a popular thing in theatre. Two comon verse seem to be Phil 4:13 and Jer. 29:11. One looked up after seeing it in my Playbill was Isaiah 26:3 ("You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.")
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#20Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:01pmBetty Buckley, Genesis 31:35-- "Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I'm having my period."
#21Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:11pmShia LaBeouf: Genesis 4:8 - "Now Shia said to his co-star Alex, “Let’s run that scene again.” While they were in the scene, Shia attacked his co-star Alex and killed him. "
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#23Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:20pmIsn't there something about not making a show of your faith??
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#24Bible verses in Playbills?
Posted: 3/29/13 at 2:30pm
"When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth, that is all the reward they will ever get." -Matthew 6:5
I think that's Tim Tebow's favorite!
