Christian Borle

Birth Name:

Christian Borle

Birth Place:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession

Actor, Soundtrack

13 Questions We Have After Watching Peter Pan Live!

It's an annual tradition two whole years strong: NBC pulls out some of the stops and puts together a live singalong stage production of a popular musical for all of the Internet to snark at. Last year, it was Nazis versus Carrie Underwood and that guy from True Blood in a live production of The Sound of Music. Thursday, Allison Williams put on the green leather leggings and wig of the boy who never wanted to grow up and Christopher Walkencut off his hand to play Captain Hook in Peter Pan Live!  Those looking for a spectacle were not disappointed! There were technicolor crocodiles, prosthetic hook-limb fist bumps, very, very old "boys," and ads for a lil' mom-and-pop store called Wal-Mart. Yet as complete and fulfilling as Peter Pan Live! was, we couldn't help but get wonder about a few questions that stuck in our craw. So we put together the 13 questions we had after watching NBC's Peter Pan Live! 

Fri, Dec 5, 2014

13 Questions We Have After Watching Peter Pan Live!

Who's Playing Mrs. Darling in NBC's Peter Pan Musical?

NBC's Peter Pan Live! musical has found its Mrs. Darling. Broadway actress Kelli O'Hara will play the Darling matriarch, who's the mother of Wendy, John and Michael.

Wed, Sep 10, 2014

Who's Playing Mrs. Darling in NBC's Peter Pan Musical?

NBC’s Peter Pan Live! Taps a Smash Vet to Play Smee AND Mr. Darling

NBC's live production of Peter Pan is getting Smash-ed! Christian Borle, who previously starred as Tom Levitt on the network's Broadway-set Smash, has joined the cast in a dual capacity, reports Deadline.

Thu, Aug 7, 2014

NBC’s Peter Pan Live! Taps a Smash Vet to Play Smee AND Mr. Darling

Review: NBC's Live The Sound of Music

When The Sound of Music sang, it soared. And scored, attracting an astounding 18.5 million viewers Thursday during NBC's ambitious three-hour live broadcast of the enduring Rodgers & Hammerstein classic. Climb every ratings mountain, indeed. With stunning sets and backdrops, generally gorgeous and enjoyable singing — Those nuns! Those kids! — and fluid direction that attempted to minimize the vacuum effect of people performing to an otherwise empty and hollow-sounding soundstage, this was a pleasurable one-night-only stunt that felt like a major TV event. Trust me, there will be more where this came from. (Let's start casting The King and I now.)

Fri, Dec 6, 2013

Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer Prepare for The Sound of Music Live

Imagine for a moment that it's Thursday at 8pm. You innocently turn on your TV and flip to NBC, thinking maybe you'll catch an episode of Parks and Recreation. Instead, you encounter what is surely destined to be one of the most curious, ambitious and generally nutso undertakings in recent media history: A live (!), three-hour (!!) production of The Sound of Music, featuring country superstar Carrie Underwood (!!!) as Maria von Trapp. Rest assured, you haven't been smoking edelweiss. This reimagining of the beloved classic about a plucky nun-turned-governess, her irresistible charges and their widower father in Nazi-occupied Austria is actually happening on network television...

Tue, Nov 26, 2013