Gallery: Hollywood Goes To Broadway

Posted by: Jessica Strul Filed in: celebs, galleries
12:00PM, Saturday May 30th 2009

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Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad, otherwise known as Clair Huxtable from “The Cosby Show,” made her debut in “August: Osage County” Tuesday night on Broadway. Rashad is playing “Violet Weston, the brittle, uncensored drug-abusing matriarch of an Oklahoma family,” according to the New York Times. Wait, isn’t the rest of the Weston family white? As a result of some “nontraditional casting, Ms. Rashad inherits a white stage family of three daughters, a husband, a sister and other relatives.” Well, if anyone can pull that off, we bet it’s Phylicia.

Lately, it seems like lots of actors have been making their way from Hollywood to Broadway. Here are some of our favorites who’ve given the stage a shot.

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amanda lynn
wrote on May 30 2009 @ 12:22 pm: [report]

julia roberts was panned for her performance in ‘12 days of rain’- that year she presented a tony award and she was great. she stood there, humbled, and said that she salutes the work that a stage actor does. or something classy like that.

and OMG - paul rudd in twelfth night - SO HOT!! i could go on and on… it’s theatre. next week is the tony’s, y’all!

calenia
wrote on May 30 2009 @ 07:12 pm: [report]

Umm, homework time!!! Phylicia Rashaad has been acting on stage for decades. She has starred on Broadway and in London’s West End in major productions like “Raisin in the Sun”, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, and “Into the Woods”.