L&O: SVU (S14-19), The Path, BoJack Horseman, Hannibal, Candy, Dopesick. Official accounts, FB, Twitter, IG: RaulEEsparza. Posts by Raúl, news/links by web team
Goodbye Barba. Thank you. You changed my life. My squad. And you, you always, my Liv, my friend Mariska. I will always treasure my time with all of you.
#SVU
#BarbaOnTrial
And
@Lin_Manuel
Satisfied is one of the greatest things ever written for the musical theater. Ever. How lucky we are to be alive to see this.
@ReneeGoldsberry
you are magnificent. So grateful for this tonight.
#hamifilm
Thanks to everybody saying they’d like me to record an album. I don’t think of myself as a singer, more an actor who can sing. I’ll have to have a good think about this. Maybe i can do something. I’m flattered.
We are having tech issues but it is being taken care of and we’ll be right with you. Stars are still on the red carpet and we’re waiting for them to get to their seats. The curtain always goes up late on opening night. 🎉
Thank you to everyone who joined us tonight. It was meant as a gift for Steve that turned into a gift for you that turned into a gift for us. We are all so much a part of one another in this world. Of people we’ve never met. Our lives stretch very far.
#Sondheim90Concert
“Don’t you remember? It was good. It was really good. Help me out, Steve. Make it like it was. “ - You are the greatest we ever had, and your words and music are part of every aspect of our lives. But I will miss your laughter most of all. Thank you for every minute.
ROLL CALL: If you watched
#Sondheim90Concert
on any platform, whether you tuned in live or streamed after, reply here and tell us your city and country. Represent!
#imstillhere
Thank you all for the birthday wishes. It’s incredibly kind and a great feeling to receive so many messages from all around the world. I’m always so moved that what we do onscreen or onstage connects us to so many people we have never met.
“NBC announced it will air a one-hour special on Thursday, Jan. 2, featuring members of the cast and former stars. Although it sounds short, the special will cover 21 years of SVU history.”
Jon famously had a pair of hi tops, ones he got rid of when Rent finally happened. I wanted to have something only I would know about. I wrote the character names on the shoes, got some of the cast of Rent to sign them. So those folks were all with me onstage. 📸 Karla Merrifield
While I'm still here, thank you again to my extraordinary fans. You are passionate and supportive and tremendously good to me. Even if I'm not online, I am aware and overwhelmed by the outpouring of care for my work. I am humbled and grateful.
#CandyOnHulu
I have a plague mask from Venice.
I bought it there after Leap of Faith.
It is, unfortunately, for a kitten. But nonetheless.
Do you think it will come in handy?
#notesfromthenopanicroom
I have seen my future. I am going to be one of those old men who screams at people that text while walking down a New York sidewalk. You look like drunks. You slow everyone down. Stop it. Oh wait. I am that man already. Happy Friday.
Also, my god. I love this picture. No idea who took it or where it came from. Evita. Another great great musical. (That was supposed to be my Broadway debut. Ha ha. Everything happens for a reason.)
This happened tonight
50th Anniversary Of Woodstock
I can’t explain my unhealthy brutal obsession with The Beatles
This is a musical god
I’m overwhelmed
@ringostarrmusic
That look though.👀 What do you think is going through Barba's head? Drop your theories below and tune into the final
@nbclawandorder
Thursday of the season tonight at 9 on
@NBC
.
#SVU
#LawAndOrder
Visiting
@shedd_aquarium
was a weekly ritual. We had no money and sometimes the museum was free so we could go and sit and watch them swim. Really, it’s one of the most serene and inspiring places in Chicago.
Flag Song was the original opening to Assassins. The idea was all these onlookers would watch the President go by. And little by little the assassins would appear in the crowd, slowly replacing them. Chills.
#Sondheim90Concert
Larry Kramer is gone today. There are no words. Larry was a giant among men. Larry changed the world. We live in a world that had to make room for his fury and his bravery and his glorious urge to keep us alive in the face of ignorance and bigotry. We owe him our lives. Period.
I love writing for
@RaulEEsparza
-- no sentence, thought, cadence or scene beyond his ability. For years, my secret challenge was to try to write something he couldn't deliver. I never did. Le deseo toda clase de éxitos en sus esfuerzos.
Thrilled to be in consideration for a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the category of Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) for TAKE ME TO THE WORLD: A SONDHEIM 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.
#foryourconsideration
#sondheim90concert
#emmys2020
Frankly I think there’s a future here. With the streaming theater thing. Bringing the theater to people all over the world. Maybe something good comes out of this horrendous time we are living through. ??
#tartuesday
After watching the
#Sondheim90Concert
, I am reminded of my favorite
@RaulEEsparza
episodes of
@nbcsvu
.
INT: COURTROOM
JUDGE: :banging gavel: ORDER!
BARBA: :rising: Design.
JUDGE: ... Tension.
BARBA: Light!
OLIVIA: I don't think this is approri-
JURY: 🎶 Sunnddaaayyyyyyyy
Reasons to love live theater, 422. A man of seemingly frozen detachment thaws by degrees into a bonfire of feeling (while emotively playing the piano!). A riveting Raul Esparza is Bobby the ambivalent bachelor in John Doyle's stark, elegant version of "Company," Broadway, 2006.
As some of you know, I am an SVU/L&O obsessive. And tonight's episode used 28 years of history so well! But I'm gonna miss [redacted for West Coast], who was just great on the show.
Another rainy New York morning. Again. Still flying from
#Sondheim90Concert
. Thank you for all the love out there. The “very optimistic” news about Remdesivir brings cautious hope. Another day for all of us to get through. We will.
#imstillhere
I wanted to let you all know that I’m no longer appearing in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of Hamlet. There were scheduling conflicts, and unfortunately we were unable to make it work. I wish them well, and I thank you all for your support. See you at the next show.
When tick, tick…BOOM! closed at the Jane Street nearly 20 years ago,
@joeymcintyre
was playing Jon. Here’s a photo from the closing night party (📸
@chewknocka
). I was playing the Emcee in Cabaret at the time if you’re wondering why my hair and eyebrows are dyed black.
#emoRaul
Thinking a lot about the amazing stars who gave birth to “tick, tick…BOOM!” back in 2001:
@RaulEEsparza
@amyespanger
and
@jerrydixonnyc
. The new movie is brilliant but wouldn’t have been possible without the work of this unforgettable trio. Just stunning work! 🙌🔥🙌🔥❤️