Members CSF Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Not sure if this was already mentioned, but if it was, sorry for being repetitive. I saw How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying earlier, and almost fell out of my seat when I opened the Playbill and say Michael Park and Tammy Blanchard in 2 lead roles! What a treat to see an ATWT and GL alum. There is life after soaps for these actors! The soap cancelations still suck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Tammy Blanchard...I had no idea she is a soap actress. She won an emmy portraying Judy Garland in the tv movie biopic, and I think may even be a Tony winner in the midst of a thriving musical career. I pass by midtown almost every day, and saw Margaret Colin is currently on Broadway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CSF Posted April 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Yes, she was Drew Jacobs on Guiding Light from 1998-1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Isn't this her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vizion Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Tammy Blanchard is I loved Drew! Drew, Dahlia, Marcus, Sugar, I loved all of them oddly enough, I didn't even mind when Dahlia would sing (and I *HATE* singing on soaps, normally I'm on the pleseshutyoassup train). Thinking back, they've all done quite well Drew - Tammy Blanchard (Judy Garland biopic, Rabbit Hole, The Good Shepherd) Marcus - Kevin Mambo (maybe the least notable) Sugar - Taye Diggs (Private Practice, How Stella Got Her Groove Back) Dahlia - Sharon Leal (Boston Public, Why Did I Get Married I and II, This Christmas) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Glad for Michael Park. He is such a sweet/kind guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Tammy was great on GL. She had a real vulnerability and emotion that was often missing in the glossy Rauch work. She started out horribly but after about a year, she began to get better and better. I loved all her scenes with Patti D'Arbanville. Jesse Soffer also got his start in that story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Lisa Brown (ex-Nola, GL; ex-Iva, ATWT) worked with Tammy Blanchard for awhile as her coach, too, I think. I always thought that was one of Rauch's better ideas, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I thought the Tammy mess was the beginning of the end for GL. I didnt like Tammy until the end of her run. Jesse Soffer was great on GL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 You mean Tammy the character or Tammy the actress? I never liked Tammy the character either, at least not after they aged her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Tammy the character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I meant Tammy the actress, who played Drew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 I hated Drew.....only until the end..maybe it was a mixture of better acting and the storyline moving along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 In the beginning, Tammy Blanchard was almost painfully raw as an actress. Combine that with piss-poor storytelling from Barbara Esensten & James Harmon Brown and...well...it just wasn't much fun to watch. Fortunately, as time dragged on, Blanchard got better, if only slightly; but the writing (for Drew, and for much of GL) remained hard to take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 17, 2011 Members Share Posted April 17, 2011 Michael's had a steady stream of work since ATWT ended. He also starred in Middletown which had good reviews, The Burnt Part Boys, The Last Goodbye and got a small part in a movie called Supercapitalist. So, there's been no moss growing under his feet. Even in the last year before the show ended, he'd been working at reestablishing himself in the theater. When there was talk of bringing Pure Country to Broadway, he was attached to that somehow (I don't know what you call it, but he was involved in the development of it.) Oh...did you like HTS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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