Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
#1Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 11:51amRebecca Luker revealed on Twitter that she was diagnosed with ALS. All best wishes to her and Danny Burstein for whats sure to be a challenging road ahead.
"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
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#2Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 12:02pm
The absolute worse news I'll hear all day. Thinking of them both.
What does God have against Baby Boomer Broadway Sopranos? 💔
#3Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 12:14pm
Was about to come here and post this. Such sad news. Much love to Rebecca and her family.
Here is the tweet:
https://twitter.com/rebeccajluker/status/1226544237514231809?s=21
“Hello friends. I have some tough news. Late last year I was diagnosed with ALS. I have the best medical care in the world and the greatest support. My dear husband Danny has been an angel. I will get well. In the meantime, we fight and go forward. Keep us in your thoughts.“
#4Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 12:18pm
...And let’s add this to our list of bad things happening to good people.
Best wishes, good luck, and good fortune to them. It’s a horrible disease, but all you can do is fight. I don’t really believe in much, but I believe in hoping for the best. So I will.
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#6Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 12:39pm
Oh my God, how terrible. I pray that she beats the odds.
#7Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 1:12pm
My heart is absolutely broken for both of them.
And if you can, Rebecca asked for donations to www.prosetin2020.org which is supposedly a promising drug to help fight ALS.
UncleCharlie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
#8Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 2:02pm
Oh my. What terrible news. Godspeed to them both.
#9Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 8:32pmVery sad to hear this... she's so talented and I wish her the best. I didn't know a whole lot about ALS besides the ice bucket challenge from a few years ago. I recently watched the documentary "Gleason" on Amazon Prime and it devastated me. It's about a former NFL player who is diagnosed and chronicles his physical deterioration over the course of a very short period of time. I highly recommend it even though it's a tough watch.
SouthernCakes
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/19
#10Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/9/20 at 8:51pmPrayers from one Southern Belle to another! All the love!!!
#11Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/10/20 at 2:58am
Awful. I remember how excited I was when she came to New York with the Hal Prince Show Boat and sang Magnolia so beautifully. To everyone back then the Internet was America On-Line, and I sent her a question about how she came to have a credit for just one spoken word on John McGlinn's three disk collection of all the music of Show Boat. She was new in New York and went to see McGlinn just when they needed someone to say a line in the Gaylord Magnolia reunion scene.
And she sings "Falling in Love with Love" as well as anyone who has ever sung it.
Complaining about 30 years going by with no progress on ovarian cancer. It's been almost 80 years since Lou Gehrig died. To try to be fair to medical science, ALS is considered a rare disease.
#12Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/10/20 at 6:33amWhen I first moved to Japan about 2 years ago, I went to a concert that celebrates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 70th birthday. I was surprised to see Luker there and she seemed to be really enjoying herself. I’m so sorry to hear the news and wish Luker and Burstein and their family and friends nothing but the best.
carolinaguy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/06
#13Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/10/20 at 9:06am
The very first Broadway performance I ever saw was The Phantom of the Opera in 1990. Ms. Luker was playing Christine at the time. All the best to her and her family.
I'm sending pictures of the most amazing trees/You'll be obsessed with all my forest expertise
Colin852
Understudy Joined: 7/5/19
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#15Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/11/20 at 3:54pm
Terrible news, I'm bereft.
Her CD Anything Goes: Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter is an absolute treasure.
All best wishes to her & Danny.
#16Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 2/11/20 at 5:20pmVery sad to hear this. Hope Luker and Burstein remain strong during this fight. I imagine Burstein will probably leave Moulin Rouge when he first gets the chance now, as I would guess he’d want to have more time to be there and support his wife right now.
#17Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 6/17/20 at 10:29am
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/theater/rebecca-luker-als.html
In case folks here haven’t seen this yet. It’ll be good to see and hear her sing, but this will be tough to watch.
-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."
#18Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 6/17/20 at 3:28pm
She sounds so strong. And unafraid.
#19Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 6/17/20 at 3:50pm
Danny has had to deal with so much hard stuff in the last year... his show being shut down, his getting coronavirus to the point of near death, his wife's ALS diagnosis, his torn meniscus. Imagine what his kids might be thinking. Hope him and Rebecca stay strong.
Oh look, a bibu!
#20Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 6/17/20 at 3:50pm
Danny has had to deal with so much hard stuff in the last year... his show being shut down, his getting coronavirus to the point of near death, his wife's ALS diagnosis, his torn meniscus. Imagine what his kids might be thinking. Hope him and Rebecca stay strong.
Oh look, a bibu!
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#21Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 6/18/20 at 9:13am
Does anyone know if the fundraiser from last night is available for viewing?
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
#22Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 6/18/20 at 10:34am
She was part of the Phantom Christine reunion on Stars in the House the other day. Danny popped in for a quick hello.
Just give the world Love.
#23Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 8/10/20 at 4:16pm
Danny Burstein wrote a guest column for the Hollywood Reporter with some updates. Absolutely heartbreaking.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/broadway-star-danny-burstein-his-struggles-covid-19-guest-column-1305904
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#24Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 8/10/20 at 4:23pm
MaddieBB12 said: "Danny Burstein wrote a guest column for the Hollywood Reporter with some updates. Absolutely heartbreaking.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/broadway-star-danny-burstein-his-struggles-covid-19-guest-column-1305904"
That was hard to read. She's doing so poorly and within already tough times.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
L_Ash826
Swing Joined: 10/11/17
#25Love to Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein
Posted: 8/10/20 at 5:49pm
I just read that article and also found it really hard to get through, and just want to tell a story about when I was a waiter at a restaurant on the UWS near where Rebecca and Danny live. Rebecca came in by herself for lunch and sat in my section, and I recognized her as soon as I walked over but I didn't acknowledge that to her. She was so strikingly kind and authentic, she asked my name and called me by it, she was so gracious, and she made the kind of eye-contact where you know someone is truly present with you. And she tipped me 30% on the meal. Another time she came in for dinner with Marin Mazzie, who also stunned me with her authenticity and presence, even in passing. I know that the Rebecca and Danny's loved ones must really be hurting, but I just wanted to mention this to say that even in her most casual and transactional interactions, Rebecca Luker makes people feel seen and cared about. She is obviously such a kind and loving woman. Sending them so much love xoxo
