RIP Nick Cordero- Page 2
RIP Nick Cordero
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#25RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 10:02pmRecently heard he was on the mend and looked like he would beat it. Devastating news to his family and friends. Last saw,him in Bullets Over Broadway. R.I.P.
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Brendaonconnell
Swing Joined: 7/5/20
#27RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 10:10pm
So sorry to hear the news. What a tragic Covid story. What an amazing partner Amanda Kloots is and so sorry to read the news https://us.hola.com/celebrities/20200706fov6zj30hq/nick-cordero-passes-away
#28RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 10:24pm
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#29RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 10:31pmMay he rest in peace.
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#30RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 10:32pm
Highland Guy said: "He joins 533,000 souls lost to the worldwide pandemic."
I lost my dad to COVID exactly one month ago, at the age of 88. Somehow he contracted it in the nursing home where he had been since November. He didn't suffer, he went within a few days of his diagnosis. This is so horrific to deal with these days. May they all rest in peace - they are the true angels.. Special prayers for Nick and his family.
#31RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 10:39pm
I'm so so sorry, David. May he rest in peace.
I actually found out today that a high school classmate, who's around my age (mid-late 20s) has recently lost BOTH of his parents, his cousin, and his grandpa to COVID all in one week. This thing is so evil.
#32RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 10:59pm
David10086 said: "Highland Guy said: "He joins 533,000 souls lost to the worldwide pandemic."
I lost my dad to COVID exactly one month ago, at the age of 88. Somehow he contracted it in the nursing home where he had been since November. He didn't suffer, he went within a few days of his diagnosis. This is so horrific to deal with these days. May they all rest in peace - they are the true angels.. Special prayers for Nick and his family."
My condolences.
My grandfather (54) and uncle (18) died in January 1919 during that world pandemic. More than a century later, their early deaths remain a family tragedy.
Non sibi sed patriae
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#33RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 11:07pm
David10086 said: "Highland Guy said: "He joins 533,000 souls lost to the worldwide pandemic."
I lost my dad to COVID exactly one month ago, at the age of 88. Somehow he contracted it in the nursing home where he had been since November. He didn't suffer, he went within a few days of his diagnosis. This is so horrific to deal with these days. May they all rest in peace - they are the true angels.. Special prayers for Nick and his family.
So sorry to hear about your loss of your father. My mother is in a nursing home where they have active corona staff and resident cases. My mother is so far negative, but they have dragged their feet in her treatment for a positive UTI. She was forced on Thursday to go to the hospital and receive a midline pic line. She has stopped eating and drinking due to the UTI. The only bright spot was my brother and I were able to see Mom for the first time in 4 months since the hospital's policies aren't as strict. Hopefully through hearing us, made her understand that we still love her and are not visiting because we aren't allowed to. My heart goes out to the Cordero family. Nick was a cool guy who enjoyed his fans.
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#35RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 11:11pm
Well, that's that. This man suffered horribly at the ravages of the coronavirus and he is finally beyond the suffering. I hope his family finds some solace in the life he lived, the work he contributed, and to his valiant fight against something he should never have faced. Bless his soul.
#36RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/5/20 at 11:19pmI just now remember that I had the luxury of watching Nick Cordero perform at Little Shop of Horrors at the Kennedy Center with Josh Radnor and Megan Hilty. Unfortunately, it seems like I lost the show program, hence, so I can’t double check if I met him or not afterwards (From what I can remember, I think he and the actor who played Mushnik were the only ones who didn’t come out.) He was great as Orin and played him very “cool” and high school-jock like. It was a gift and a pleasure to see him.
#38RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 3:33am
"One of the Great Ones" is now so bittersweet. This is a shocking tradegy - so young! And his poor family.
"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
Back Row
Leading Actor Joined: 4/14/12
#39RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 8:26am
Before he was stricken with this virus, my knowledge of Nick Cordero was limited to the roles he had played on stage and on TV. I didn't know a lot about anything beyond his professional life. However, like a lot of people, I have followed his struggle, hoping against hope that he would somehow overcome the ravages of this disease. And during that time, I was awestruck at the depth and quantity of true friendships this man had formed during his lifetime, as friend after friend stepped forward, passionately pleading for his recovery. As talented a performer he was, it appears that his most enduring legacy may be the imprint he left on those he left behind. Such a shame that he was taken from us at such a young age, but what an impact he had on everyone he encountered along the way. A life well lived, indeed.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#40RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 8:50am
I absolutely loved him in the Toxic Avenger cast recording. RIP.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#41RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 10:09am
My understanding from following his story the past few months is that he did eventually test negative for covid so in a technical sense he was virus-free at death. I understand though that recovery was the next step and it was a long one given how it was recommended he get a double lung transplant, etc.
Regardless, this is very sad news and may he rest in peace. What an amazing guy and so young!
#42RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 2:44pm
This is so heartbreaking. My prayers and thoughts go out to his family and friends, especially his wife and son.
fosterfan2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/11
#43RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 5:12pm
This is just devastating. What a talented artist,and a wonderful husband and father.
Hairspray0901
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#45RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 6:52pm
I'm still so sad over this. I've been following Amanda's page for the last 3 months, watching her daily "live your life" live videos, listening to and reading her updates...I was so hopeful Nick would pull through. I'm just heartbroken for her, Elvis, their families, their friends. Just devastating. Seeing many Broadway actors post about him today show how truly loved he was. I saw him in the Toxic Avenger and in Waitress. Such a talented guy. Just so sad.
Updated On: 7/6/20 at 06:52 PM
#47RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/6/20 at 11:34pm
ArtMan said: "David10086 said: "Highland Guy said: "He joins 533,000 souls lost to the worldwide pandemic."
I lost my dad to COVID exactly one month ago, at the age of 88. Somehow he contracted it in the nursing home where he had been since November. He didn't suffer, he went within a few days of his diagnosis. This is so horrific to deal with these days. May they all rest in peace - they are the true angels.. Special prayers for Nick and his family.
So sorry to hear about your loss of your father. My mother is in a nursing home where they have active corona staff and resident cases. My mother is so far negative, but they have dragged their feet in her treatment for a positive UTI. She was forced on Thursday to go to the hospital and receive a midline pic line. She has stopped eating and drinking due to the UTI. The only bright spot was my brother and I were able to see Mom for the first time in 4 months since the hospital's policies aren't as strict. Hopefully through hearing us, made her understandthat we still love her and are not visiting because we aren't allowed to. My heart goes out to the Cordero family. Nick was a cool guy who enjoyed his fans."
Thank you all for your condolences. I didn’t want to share anything about my loss on any message forum I belong to, but I couldn’t help myself in this thread. So thank you all. It’s a tragedy for everyone. I will keep you all in my prayers that we all get through this.
schubox
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/16
#48RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/7/20 at 10:18am
Zach Braff talked a lot about Nick on the Scrubs podcast that came out today.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#49RIP Nick Cordero
Posted: 7/7/20 at 3:36pm
Zach Braff talked about Nick Cordero's time in the hospital on his podcast today:
“Just for clarity’s sake, he didn’t have COVID-19 anymore. What COVID did to Nick is what it does to a lot of people, it comes in and wreaks havoc on your body. Then it leaves and you don’t have it anymore, but you’re left with what the doctors called ‘lungs that look like Swiss cheese.’”
“He just deteriorated, deteriorated, deteriorated, until the point where they put him on the ventilator and then he never came back,” he added. “He kind of woke up for a little bit and there was some exciting moments where they would say, Nick, if you can hear us look up,’ and he would do that, but he wouldn’t do it all the time. It was only occasionally.”
“Even to live he would’ve needed a full double-lung transplant and you only get those if you’re healthy in all other ways. So the machines were really truly keeping him alive, his blood pressure wasn’t strong enough so the tips of all his fingers and toes were blackening and they would have had to have been removed had he lived.”
