In-depth Update on Karen Olivo- Page 2
In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#25In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 1:17pmdon't need to get laid just have no sympathy for someone who walks away from something that millions of others would kill to attain
#26In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 1:19pmWhere and when did Olivo ever ask for your sympathy?
#27In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 1:26pmGiven the countless entertainers whose lives either spiraled downward or ended far too young, it looks like she has made a wise decision to step away, at least for awhile.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#28In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 1:40pm
I got the impression she was never into the acting life. I have roughly 8 failed attempts to see her under my belt (she was out a lot). I think Laurents crucifying her had to be one of the nails in the coffin. I love her voice, but I think she will do better out of the public eye.
She'd be a great acting professor at a college. She has a lot of wisdom to impart.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#29In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:01pm
PlayitAgainSam ~ Olivo isn't the first thespian to walk away from an acting career. Not everyone wants to be an actor and if one isn't happy in their chosen profession, whatever that profession may be then they are within their right to change it. You have no right to judge her. It's her life. It isn't about you or what you think millions of others would "kill for".
Dolores Hart walked away from a very successful movie career in the 1960s to become a cloistered Benedectine nun, I hear she is quite content and doesn't regret it one bit.
#30In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:04pmDolores actually became a nun because her married boyfriend was trying to have her killed. Get your facts straight, Carlos.
#31In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:06pmSomeone who purposely walks away from such a promising future does not seem very wise to me. She's certainly not a good role model for students.
#32In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:09pm^ No wonder you got along so well with broadway guy.
#33In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:09pm
'Someone who purposely walks away from such a promising future does not seem very wise to me.'
Someone who walks away from something because they know they need to do so to make sure they are a healthy and complete human being is the very definition of wise.
#34In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:10pmRemember that you're trying to explain that to a 12 year old, Robbie.
#35In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:10pm
LOL @ Jordan. That is not true!
all that jazz: you're clueless, materialistic, superficial, shallow, pretentious and obnoxious. YOU REEK OF IT.
#36In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:11pmI think some people in this thread don't realize that getting what you wanted is sometimes the worst punishment. You only get one go at this and if she's happier in Madison than on Broadway, good on her for being strong enough to give up something that is very hard to walk away from for the sake of her happiness.
"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#37In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:12pm
"Someone who purposely walks away from such a promising future does not seem very wise to me. She's certainly not a good role model for students."
I just spit up my lunch. Is this kid for real?!
Guys. Just imagine if this was about Dame Lea walking away from acting. What do you think his/her reaction would be then?
#38In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:12pm
just have no sympathy for someone who walks away from something that millions of others would kill to attain
That's okay. I'm sure she has no sympathy for anyone who believes a person has the responsibility to remain eternally unhappy and miserable simply because their career is in a competitive field.
One of the greatest words of wisdom I ever received in the business came from Tony-winning producer Stuart Ostrow: "If you're not having fun, stop doing it. Because this business will kill you."
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#39In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:13pm
Guys. Just imagine if this was about Dame Lea walking away from acting. What do you think his/her reaction would be then?
Hopefully the reaction will be that it kills itself.
#40In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:15pmSometimes the things you most wish for are not to be touched.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#41In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:15pm
Carlos. I'm cackling over here. But I'm nodding my head in agreement, too. 
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#42In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:23pm
Who's looking for sympathy? If it didn't bring her joy, she 100% did the right thing.
As a student, I was excellent in math -- should I kept working at it regardless of the fact that I hated it?
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Updated On: 7/26/13 at 02:23 PM
#43In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:26pmTo little kids like Jazz, acting is like the mafia. Once you're in...
#44In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 2:32pmThere are more stories in the entertainment world like Olivo's than (to pick at random) Sutton Foster's. We just don't know how to discuss them, because we're afraid to talk openly about our thoughts on failure. (I'm not saying Olivo failed; but many people perceive abandoning a performing career as failure.)
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#45In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 3:23pm
Excellent point, Newintown. A change in your career path or lifestyle is not a failure, it's a choice.
And as always, ATJ, you just don't get life. Isn't the best lesson anyone can learn is to do what makes you happy? How does this make her a bad role model? Can she no longer teach them how to act? How to handle the media? How to find an agent? MOST students won't get "far" as Ms Olivo has anyway. She has quite a bit to share...including the far from fairy tale version.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#46In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 5:10pm
But Olivo was not anywhere near the top, she still had a long way to go.
I'm not saying what she did was right or wrong, since I also realize that for most people happiness comes before success. That's just how I see it, I can't not help but to feel sad when someone abandons something that millions of people would kill to have, including myself. I'm the guy who always who always gets angry at the ending of Pal Joey and The Devil's Wear Prada and It's not my fault, that's just how my brain works.
I truly understand and respect all of your opinions, I just happen not to share them, because of my own very personal beliefs.
#47In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 5:13pm
You will never, ever find happiness until you fix your brain.
Never.
Never, ever.
You will be a miserable person because your brain is not working properly.
#48In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 5:20pm
"I truly understand and respect all of your opinions, I just happen not to share them, because of my own very personal beliefs."
Kid, your "beliefs" are made up from what you've seen in GLEE and SMASH and are in no way grounded in any sort of reality.
broadwayboy101
Broadway Star Joined: 3/20/08
#49In-depth Update on Karen Olivo
Posted: 7/26/13 at 5:20pmall that jazz, you have an extremely stylized and unrealistic view of the acting world. If you choose to pursue it as a career, you are in for a rude awakening when you realize that it is nothing like the Glee-induced walk in the park you seem to think it is. Winning a Tony Award and performing in a Broadway show is far from failure.
