Both Thompson and Nejat are currently performing in their first Broadway shows. Ben Thompson is on Facebook. I could have done that show forever: been in the ensemble, and been completely happy." "When Dookie came out, it was the first album I bought with my own money, and the first album I really dug into rock & roll with," he says. He is a news anchor as well as a reporter for WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, specializing in politics and breaking news. Matt Caplan had the role of Tunny for the workshop but came down with appendicitis a few days before the performance, and Thompson was asked to step in. As of 2019, Carolyn Bruck is in a relationship with Ben Thompson. These people. Harry Connick Jr. @itsBenThompson - 2/10/21 08:11am Just posted a photo @ Sobriety https://, @itsBenThompson - 2/6/21 06:05pm Ben playing bad guys since middle school. Valerie has 10 jobs listed on their profile. 159 Likes, 7 Comments - Ben Thompson (@itsbenthompson) on Instagram: “These Singers. "People always say never date another actor, because it's competitive," Thompson continues. When director Joel Ferrell, Thompson's old mentor from Casa Manana, was casting Pump Boys in Denver in 2006, he called Thompson about being in it, assuming he knew how to play guitar. @broadway_sings is going to…” I'm always the one lifting the smaller people.". Harry Connick Jr. But I was always attracted to her, and the day the show closed, I [told her]: 'I'm crazy about you.'. I have never made a sound like this in my life! Both the school and his parents supported his involvement in a variety of activities, so he was also football captain (and All-Conference honorable mention) as well as a member of the track, soccer and basketball teams. A part in the ensemble for TCU’s 2000 production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” convinced Ben Thompson that musical theater was his passion. "The great thing is we got these kids who'd never been to a show before, and they're getting into theater now," he says. There's no need to ever take anything for granted, because you never know when something like that's going to happen in front of a theater full of people. (Getting married on Monday also allowed Thompson and Nejat to afford a pricey-on-weekends Southampton venue.) Stars and superstars have adjusted well to the new change in the manner we convey. Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, Chicago holds the record for the longest-running revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. You killed it…” ", American Idiot has proved extremely gratifying to Thompson for reasons other than getting chummy with rock gods. Photos of Ben, from top: in his headshot; mugging with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong on Grammy night; as Zeke Baylor (#32) on the, Watch Leslie Odom Jr. & ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Cast in 'Behind The Scene', Mucha and Okey Have an Egg Roll (Mr. Goldstone) on SECOND ACT SNACKS, Lin-Manuel Miranda Asks Leslie Grace To Join IN THE HEIGHTS, BWW Exclusive: Allison Janney in New Doc STILL WORKING 9 TO 5, Exclusive: Renée Elise Goldsberry Narrates VOICE OF FREEDOM. These arrangements. You'd think on a project like this, it would be so easy for egos to get in the way, or Green Day very easily could have been like: 'Yeah, here's our stuff—go.' He's down-to-earth but this big personality. 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Ben Thompson Picture Gallery on BroadwayWorld.com with Ben Thompson Photos from stage, special events, red carpets and more. The Playbillies Cover 'Elephant Love Medley' From MOULIN ROUGE! Photos of Ben, from top: in his headshot; mugging with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong on Grammy night; as Zeke Baylor (#32) on the High School Musical tour; with his soon-to-be wife, Kat Nejat; top right, in Pump Boys and Dinettes in 2006; with all three members of Green Day, (from left) Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt, during American Idiot's run in Berkeley, Calif. Be first to get the top news & best streams. Get all the lyrics to songs by Ben Thompson and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. I'd made the mistake of dating within shows before—well, I don't know if you want to call it a mistake, but it's always too much drama. There's a mandatory warmup an hour before curtain every night, and Thompson is going to physical therapy regularly during American Idiot's run. 439 Likes, 3 Comments - Ben Thompson (@itsbenthompson) on Instagram: “Well done @erichbergen. Thompson also took classes, along with his three older sisters, at Tulsa's Theatre Arts studio, which eventually formed a performing company, TACT (Theatre Arts Children's Theater). “It was like I found my home,” Thompson, a 2003 TCU alum, said. Script adaptation by David Thompson. We're a cast full of athletes." I have never been so mortified. Paolo Montalbán Visits Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge- Watch Now! "I remember the first time I heard 'Holiday.' Despite both of them are media personalities, the … You completed your debut run on Broadway. He was in the middle of working a five-class day—"singing to babies"—at Little Maestros, a music program for infants and toddlers, when his agent reached him. "We were all like, 'Stay focused, stay focused...'" When he had the chance to speak personally with Armstrong, "I told him, 'You have no idea how many times you and I pissed my mom off together! "I made my Broadway debut, I got to sing on the Grammys, I got to sing on the Tonys, I'm getting married. Celebrating Black History Month: Encores! "And the fact is, they were more musical than all of us [who could hear]. 543 Likes, 23 Comments - Ben Thompson (@itsbenthompson) on Instagram: “@lauriehernandez_ you are a national treasure and now a broadway star! He's concentrated his talents on theater as an adult, but hasn't stopped developing other skills. The show was directed by Nick Demos, who'd directed him at the Lyric in Oklahoma (and is now a producer of Memphis), and Thompson filled one of the few Equity slots in the mostly non-Equity company. '", Thanks to college employment under Ferrell at Casa Manana, Thompson had arrived in New York with his Equity card. View the profiles of people named Ben Thomson. Though based in NYC since early 2004, Thompson has mostly worked on the road and regionally. Eases On Down the Road with THE WIZ in 2009. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, the show follows chorus girl Roxie Hart and her murder of a faithless lover. According to Thompson, that early experience at Casa Manana set him on the right path. Where's the misery, the alienation? "We're exposing Green Day fans to musical theater, and theater in general, and we're exposing musical theater fans to Green Day," he explains. He was in Wood, an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival headlined by Cady Huffman, in fall 2008 but had spent the preceding months—after he left the HSM tour—recuperating from a broken ankle. It was a good lesson to learn: just to be honest and simple and listen.". "But this show is not very technique-y," he adds. From 1999 to 2003, while Thompson was attending Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, he performed in about half a dozen productions at Casa Manana—among them Jekyll & Hyde and The Wizard of Oz (one of his American Idiot castmates, Leslie McDonel, was in both of those shows with him). That is freaking cool.…” 514 Likes, 11 Comments - Ben Thompson (@itsbenthompson) on Instagram: “Matilda Broadway Reunion @waitressmusical !!! The whole cast is turned upstage, and all of them start laughing. Growing up in Oklahoma, Thompson was exposed to theater early: His maternal grandparents ran a community theater, Town & Gown, in Stillwater (about 70 miles west of Tulsa). "Being a straight man in musical theater," Thompson says, "you're like a Snickers bar in a fat camp. After six years in New York and repeated callbacks for such hits as Mamma Mia! "My roommates at the time hated me: 'Dude, can you stop playing the guitar for two seconds? He learned to play the guitar for his role in Pump Boys and Dinettes, a show in which all cast members play instruments, and learned sign language while performing in Big River with Deaf West. Ben Thompson (born 1 June 1992) is an English actor best known for his role as Ryan Connor in the British soap opera Coronation Street.Brought up in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, Thompson made his screen debut when he appeared in the 2002 film Re-Inventing Eddie.Shortly before turning 13, he appeared in the 2004 CBBC children's comedy programme Stupid!. It's one of those songs that just makes you want to move. View the profiles of people named Ben Thompson. Their cousins across the pond would like a word. Prior to the Berkeley production, Thompson went to Louisville, Ky., for training with the ZFX flying effects company, and to prep for Broadway, he trained in Las Vegas with Flying by Foy. 15.9k Followers, 387 Following, 791 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Ben Thompson (@benthompsontv) "Because I'm a bigger guy, I'm never in the flying roles. He then ran out and bought a guitar, along with some basic instructions. "I was excited," he says. Let's scan the reviews of American Idiot for some words used to describe the characters: "sullen," "furious," "aimless," "disaffected." Thompson had surgery, in which two pins were inserted in his ankle, and then hobbled around on crutches for a few months. Ben Thompson Shirtless, Underwear, Boyfriend, BBC Breakfast Co-Host.You think American and Australian media personalities are the only ones brave enough to pose for photographs while wearing nothing but skimpy Speedos (see Sam Champion) or tighty whities (see Hamish MacDonald)?. And now he's gotten to rock out to "Holiday" before a national TV audience: It's the number the American Idiot cast performed when they appeared on David Letterman this spring. I've worked really hard, and it's nice when hard work pays off." The way he can command a stage, it's like he flips a switch. Join Facebook to connect with Ben Thompson and others you may know. Paolo Montalbán Visits Backstage LIVE with Richard Ridge- Watch Now! Earl in WAITRESS on Broadway “Purple Hoodie Guy” from The Greatest Showman Videos Green Day’s American Idiot Matilda on Broadway Holler If Ya Hear Me on Broadway. "We get this incredible mix of people—people you would never get in the same room together and think that they would get along or agree on something—and yet every night after watching us for 90 minutes, they're all clapping together. Green Day brought the American Idiot cast with them to the Jan. 31 Grammy Awards in L.A. to perform "21 Guns," and hosted the cast at one of their California concerts while American Idiot was playing at Berkeley Rep last fall. "I've known every word of this album for a very, very long time," he says of American Idiot, Green Day's blockbuster 2005 Grammy winner that inspired the stage musical. This story. "I owe a lot of what I've learned and getting to this point in my career to Joel Ferrell," the Fort Worth theater's former artistic director, says Thompson. They were such beautiful people. They had met on the 2004-05 tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat featuring Jon Secada in the title role, and though Thompson was instantly attracted, he proceeded with caution. He started performing in community theater at age 8, when he played a Lollipop Guild Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz at Theatre Tulsa—the same place where he'd have his first paying gig, in Forever Plaid, as a teenager. VIDEO: Watch Nick Cordero 'One of the Great Ones' Memorial Tribute by Stage Tube - Sep 6, 2020 Broadway Actor - Waitress. Thompson sang in several choirs and performed in plays at Holland Hall, the private academy he attended from sixth grade on. I've heard numerous people say, 'This is my first Broadway show.' Huh? Yes, all that angst and anger on stage at the St. James Theatre—"a 90-minute car wreck emotionally, physically, mentally," Ben calls it—is conveyed by young people who are actually happy. Now let's hear from cast member Ben Thompson: "I feel very lucky. At the time, Thompson was in the midst of an auditioning slump, so he fibbed and said he did. Ben Thompson. Caplan also portrayed Tunny during AI's pre-Broadway tryout at Berkeley Rep, and Thompson went on in the part about half a dozen times during that run, including a performance that was attended by the New York Times. He performed in the Deaf West production of Big River at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., for several months in 2005, and has also been seen in Pump Boys and Dinettes at Denver's Country Dinner Playhouse and Smokey Joe's Cafe and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. "Billie Joe, in stature, he's not the tallest guy," says Thompson, "but I've never seen a bigger performer in my entire life. I was driving home and was totally rocking out to it. '", Of Armstrong's collaboration with director Michael Mayer to create the musical, Thompson notes: "From the very beginning, the creative team worked together seamlessly. I love what I do. Thompson had a similar experience when he spent a year on the first national tour of High School Musical in 2007-08. I [thought to myself], 'Oh, man, I gotta buy this album.'". Performer: Ben Thompson The Escapologist - Escape Artist - Replacement Miss Trunchbull - Replacement Miss Trunchbull - Replacement Understudy: Ben Thompson [Miss Trunchbull, Mr. Wormwood] Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong and his Green Day bandmates showed up during the workshop to meet the cast. This room. After six years in New York and repeated callbacks for such hits as Mamma Mia!
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