When I was growing up in the 70s, Charo was everywhere. She was on Chico and the Man, Hollywood Squares, Love Boat, Fantasy Island and on and on.
I only knew her as that flaky lady with the weird clothes and weirder accent. Turns out she’s an incredible flamenco guitarist! Who knew? Everybody but me. Hey, to be fair, I was born in 1969.
I knew about Charro. I was watching the musical Reefer Madness on TV and I found out that Veronica Mars can really fucking sing. It’s common knowledge now but, boy, was I surprised back then.
Brian May, astrophysicist
Peter Weller, classical scholar
Clint Eastwood, jazz pianist
QB/football coach Jim Zorn, classical violinist
Football coach Chuck Noll, classical guitarist
Hence her role in Frozen. In the same vein, I was watching old Muppet Show episodes and (re-)discovered that Lynda Carter had a proper set of pipes too.
That Neil Patrick Harris can do magic tricks is broadly known, but apparently he’s a competent acrobat as well.
Simon Helberg is an excellent pianist and genuinely played as part of his role as accompanist Cosmo McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Former major league baseball players Bernie Williams and Bronson Arroyo are classical guitarists.
Before Ghostbusters typecast him forever, Rick Moranis was a superb impressionist.
Justin Bieber is a surprisingly good drummer.
Bruce Dickinson, lead singer for Iron Maiden, was also a competitive, national level fencer, and is a qualified Boeing 757 and 747 pilot. I also believe that he is also a qualified 777 pilot as well.
Writes some damn good country songs, too.
I once saw an episode of Quantum Leap in which Sam jumped into the life of Broadway musical singer doing* Man of La Mancha*. Scott Bakula, who played Sam, is, as I learned, a fine singer who did all the musical numbers for his character. I like hearing him belt out his introductory number, the title song Man of La Mancha.
Both John Lithgow and Jason Alexander are fine tenors. The latter won a Tony for Jerome Robbins Broadway.
Christopher Walken is an amazing dancer who got his start in musical theatre.
Jerry Orbach was a song-and-dance man in his youth.
in his youth? IN HIS YOUTH.?
Orbach’s last theatrical credit was in 1985, when he was fifty.
Orbach was a song-and-dance man all his life, and don’t you ever forget that fact.
It was a voice role and so presumably did not require any dancing, but he did sing even later than that as Lumière in Disney’s 1991 Beauty and the Beast.
I don’t know if Bernie plays classical but I’ve only seen him play jazz.
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I knew that. Really, I did.
Check him out doing “Let’s Misbehave” in Steve Martin’s movie version of “Pennies From Heaven.”
Rick Moranis was never going to have a career where he was not typecast as Rick Moranis.