Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#1Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:02am
I recently caught an episode with Michael Cerveris. He did OK, but just a bit too bland for me. I expected more energy and for him to leave a deeper impression on the viewer.
Updated On: 2/8/09 at 03:02 AM
#2re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:17am
A particular performance that comes to my mind is that of Kerry O'Malley, who was absolutely stunning as a rape victim impregnated by her attacker on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Also noteworthy is Cynthia Nixon, who won an Emmy last year for her work on SVU as a woman with multiple personalities involved in a child's disappearance.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 2/8/09 at 03:17 AM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#2re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:23am
Betty Buckley.
I rarely watch that show.
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#3re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:37amI also don't watch it. That day I saw Cerveris' name, and decided to watch. Having been around for so long, the show has provided a lot of Broadway actors a nice opportunity to stay local, and still cross over to work in TV. Didn't Kristin Chenoweth also have a part once?
#4re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:47amBernadette Peters was a lawyer on the show many years ago IIRC.
"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
#5re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 4:35am
Well the most obvious is Jesse L. Martin... =)
Wilson Jermaine Heredia, the original Angel in RENT was on an episode of SVU years back. I thought he was effective in it.
Different shows, but Megan Hilty was on Shark. Blake Bashoff of Spring Awakening and Tracie Thoms (after the movie but before her Broadway debut) were on Cold Case as well. I'm sure there have been more.
FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#6re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 5:59amTwo that stand out to me are Tony Roberts on Law & Order:CI as a shady boxing promoter, and the absolutely creepy performance of Martin Short on Law & Order:SVU as a psychic consulting on the case of a missing girl.
Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
"Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield
#7re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 6:32am
Tovah Feldshuh, who will be opening in IRENA'S VOW at the Walter Kerr next month in a transfer from Off-Broadway, frequntly plays a defense lawyer on LAW AND ORDER. She is a terrific actress and I am looking forward to seeing her on Broadway.
Michael Hayden, who scored as Billy Bigelow in the Lincoln Center CAROUSEL, has appeared in LAW AND ORDER. He had to play the part using a foreign accent in a strictly fair performance.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#8re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 7:07am
"Well the most obvious is Jesse L. Martin... =) "
I beg to differ. I think the most obvious would be Jerry Orbach :)
Matt Morrison, Michael Berresse, Yuka Takamura. Bebe Neuwirth had her own short-lived Trial By Jury. Kathleen Chalfont, Michael Mulharen and Susan Blackwell all had recurring roles as judges. Charlotte D'amboise (suspect). Karen Ziemba (unwitting fiance of a multiple murderer). Marion Seldes (really off the charts mother of a murderer).
That's off the top of my head. There's many, many more. It had gotten to the point that if you didn't have L&O on your resume, casting agents wanted to know why not.
Updated On: 2/10/09 at 07:07 AM
cath2
Swing Joined: 9/19/07
#9re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:16am
Christian Hoff did a fantastic job in a co-starring role as State Attorney Grady in the L & O episode "Players".
And Mark Lotito (Jersey Boys) can be seen every now in then in reruns as a policeman.
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#10re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:30amNot on Law and Order but I was watching PS I love you and Susan Blackwell and Sherie Scott
itwontbelongnowx
Understudy Joined: 10/19/07
#11re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:40am...all of them?
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 9:46amI loved seeing Ethel Merman as the canibalisitc leader of a religious cult caught selling young girls into slavery.
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#13re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:38amRebecca Luker did nice work as a guest star on SVU.
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#14re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:42am
Elaine Stritch won an Emmy as a feminist lawyer
George N. Martin is in an excellent one as a man with alzheimers.
Updated On: 2/8/09 at 10:42 AM
#15re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 10:52amRoger Bart was in a regular L & O episode and an SVU episode.
#16re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 11:03am
Angela Lansbury was in an episode I caught a while ago.
I LOVED Cynthia Nixon. I am still effected by that episode.
Call me Travis. :)
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#17re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 11:08amTerrence Mann was a lawyer in two different episodes.
spiritx33
Understudy Joined: 5/22/07
#18re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:14pmCelia Keenan-Bolger was in an episode of L&O. And I think Anthony Rapp and Jane Krakowski played brother and sister in an episode of SVU.
#19re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:34pm
Anthony Rapp, Jane Krakowski, Karen Olivo, Bobby Cannavale, Brandi Burkhardt, John Cullum and Christian Hoff.
Updated On: 2/8/09 at 12:34 PM
#20re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 12:52pmKelly Sullivan was also in the beginning of a criminal intent episode.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#21re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 1:17pmLikewise I don't really watch it, but I did once when Judy Kuhn was a battered wife (and you couldn't even tell it was her?); and Coleen Sexton I think was the girlfriend/baby momma of a drugdealer and her house got smoked or something..? I think that was on L&O??!
#22re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 1:29pmTony Roberts has been on both Law and Order and Law and Order Criminal Intent. Mary Testa played a police officer in an episode of Law and Order.
Upcoming shows:
#23re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 2:59pmPatti LuPone as a lawyer on the regular L&O. Also, Eden Espinosa was on SVU for all of three seconds.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
#24re: Which Broadway performers have you seen in Law & Order?
Posted: 2/8/09 at 3:37pmSara Ramirez played an awesome hooker in an episode of SVU. Too bad she was only in the first 10 minutes. And actually, she was in another episode before that as well. She played the mother of a 6 year old boy who killed another child with a gun. Besides those 2 episodes, I don't normally watch the show.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
Ignored Users: suestorm, N2N Nate., Owen22, master bates
