{"id":10124,"date":"2010-05-30T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:18:07","slug":"the-deadbolt-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=10124","title":{"rendered":"“The deadbolt notes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wonderful tribute post<\/a> to Law and Order<\/i>, finally closing up its 20th and final season.<\/p>\n

One of the things about the show, filmed in New York City, is that it kept actors working. Amazing talented stage actors who perhaps otherwise could not have kept afloat financially … Law and Order<\/i> had a huge amazing pool to pick from, and in many ways (similar to soap operas), the omnipresent nature of Law and Order<\/i> in this town meant that off-Broadway could flourish, it helped actors fund themselves, and the projects they really wanted to do. This is a professional town. It is an expensive town. There are people here who are the best in the business, and yet perhaps nobody has every heard their name. No matter. It’s the work that is important. Law and Order<\/i> kept actors working, helped keep them in their unions, pay their dues, and – most important – it created a structure that, inadvertently (or, perhaps, “vertently”), kept off-Broadway alive. Soap opera actors make a ton of money. Many of them are stage-trained. They are in New York City for a reason. A couple of guest spots on a soap means they can go off to Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer and do Cherry Orchard<\/i>. Law and Order<\/i>, a superior show, obviously, that has spawned a million spin-offs (it’s a structure that just works<\/i>), knew that it had the best of the best to pull from. Everyone I know has been on that show at least once.<\/p>\n

It will be missed for many reasons, but for the New York actor, that sense that an operation was out there looking for them<\/i>, and specifically, is what will be missed the most.<\/p>\n

Here’s a post I wrote about S. Epatha Merkerson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My tribute piece<\/a> to Jerry Orbach.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss Jackie’s post.<\/a><\/p>\n

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