Taking the Broadway route
Season 3 winner Fantasia Barrino will star in “The Color Purple.”
Following in the same footsteps as many other former “American Idol” contestants, Fantasia Barrino has found a new spot on stage — the Broadway stage.
The Season 3 winner announced on Thursday night’s elimination episode that she will be starring in “The Color Purple” starting April 10 on Broadway. The announcement was followed by a performance of “I’m Here.”
Broadway shows have hired many former contestants, including Season 3 runner-up Diana DeGarmo, who currently is on Broadway in “Hairspray,” as well as Amy Adams, Constantine Maroulis and several others.
It seems “Idol” is becoming the search for the next multi-talented singer, not just the next big pop star. Fantasia, who has struggled to find the same success as winners Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, exercised her acting chops last year when she played herself in the Lifetime movie “Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story.”
Let’s just hope her Broadway skills are better than her made-for-TV movie skills.
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I just saw Constantine Maroulis in the Off-Broadway musical review, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. As a relative newcomer to the Broadway stage..he was outstanding, as were the other three cast members. Constantine has an astoundingly beautiful soaring tenor voice that is absolutely riveting and getting raves from the critics, and his performance skills took the audience on an emotional roller coaster ride- from his comedic turns to tears of gut-wrenching emotion. He is truly a rising star–and it’s too bad Simon and Randy haven’t seen their ‘loser’ in this extremely challenging play! In fact, Randy’s recent remark about “second fiddle Off-Broadway” singers is a classic example of just how ignorant some judges can be!! You should spend some time in your own dawg house..Randy!!! or better yet, go see Brel while Constantine is still in the show!!
February 24th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I wonder how much “The Color Purple” had to pay to get Fantasia airtime on the show? It doesn’t seem like such an efficient advertising machine would promote one of its past winners for something that they’re no longer involved with when they have other perfectly good Idols to promote who are on their record labels.
March 24th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
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