Law & Order: SVU Hopes to Hire 'Every Broadway Actor' Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
Hadestown) and Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice) had been , one fan pointed out that the series had featured “so much broadway.”Law & Order: SVU showrunner Warren Leight confirmed that this has been completely intentional in a reply on January 5. “We are trying to hire every Broadway actor we can while we and they wait for the curtains to rise again,” he tweeted, adding, “And yes, by Broadway, we of course also mean off, and off-off, and off-off-off.”Law & Order: SVU is one of the few shows that films in , making it a prime gig for actors who make most of their living on the stage, even before the pandemic hit. Leight expanded on these statements in an interview with published on January 6.