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[pat]

So what is it with Puccini and Broadway and Law and Order?

La Boheme =>Rent/Jesse L. Martin (whom I will gladly pay good money to watch read the phone book) => Law & Order

Madame Butterfly=> M.Butterfly/B.D. Wong (who doesn't have to even read the phone book, just stand there) => L&O: SVU

I am getting punchy. I need to stop reading IBDb.com/IMDb.com and check on the laundry.

Oh, of the seven other primary characters in the movie version of Rent, four of those actors have had guest shots on either L&O or SVU at some point in their careers: Anthony Rapp and Wilson J. Heredia were on SVO, and Tye Diggs (speaking of people who only have to stand there) and Tracie Thoms were on L&O. All but Thoms had been in the original Broadway cast.

I'm sure it has to do with the fact that all the L&O shows are shot in New York.

Comments

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice the Puccini connection, but I did notice the Broadway one (somewhere between Rent, M. Butterfly and the Sirius Broadway station playing Jerry Orbach recordings from 42nd Street.)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you can add Vincent D'Onofrio to the list. (http://ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4332)

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's true... S. Epatha Merkerson (http://ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=72838), as well. Not to mention Bebe Neuwirth.

I was just going after the Puccini/L&O thing ... a lot of Broadway actors have done guest shots on the show; again, they shoot in NY, it makes sense.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. :-D (And Chris Noth, too. And I should stop poking IMDB and IBDB and go to bed. :-D)

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

i love that show