Reality TV as ‘Survivor’ turns 10

NorthJersey.com ran an article today discussing reality shows. They feature a few people from the North Jersey area who have appeared on television reality shows including Constantine.

Even under the best of circumstances, staying in the spotlight — for the right reasons — is “hard work,” says Wyckoff-bred Constantine Maroulis, sixth-place finisher on the fourth season of “American Idol,” who now stars on Broadway in “Rock of Ages.”

“After ‘Idol,’ I was blessed with lots of cool opportunities … television deals, record deals. … Some things fall into place, some things don’t,” Maroulis says. “The music industry is not in the greatest place right now, so you have to sort of just adjust and do what you can. … I’m a hard-workin’ blue-collar Jersey kid.”

Read the entire article at www.NorthJersey.com.

Online Pre-Bidding has started for the ROA Broadway Bear

Online pre-bidding for The Broadway Bears XIII Auction has opened. Here is the Broadway Bear from Rock of Ages. Love the long slender legs and the signature Constantine long hair. He’s cute!

The Rock of Ages Bear

The auction will run from January 14, 2010 to February 13, 2010, the live event takes place on:

Sunday, February 14th, 2010
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
237 W42nd Street
Begining at 6:00PM

Tickets for the event are $150 for VIP Level and $35 for General Admission. Proceeds go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in order to support men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.

All the bears have a $500 opening bid. The ROA bear already has that bid. Next bid accepted is $550.

Bids are being accepted online. Check out the Broadway Cares website here to get all the information.

More from Sundance 2010

While at the Sundance Film Festival, Constantine was interviewed by Olivia Munn.

What To find out what caused Mr. Maroulis to ponder so deeply, go here to see the entire interview.

While there, Constantine ran into some longtime friends and got photographed with them.  One of them is a new Victoria Secret model.

The Daily News Gatecrasher reported in an article titled “Orlando Bloom finds warmth with Adrien Brody at Sundance Film Festival,”

While Bloom and pal Adrien Brody stayed bundled up, others kept warm by getting cozy with their significant others: Socialite Tinsley Mortimer  was seen snuggling with rumored boy toy Constantine Maroulis after he and the cast of “Rock of Ages” finished performing at the Bing bash.

Finally, here is an interview from Radaronline.com that was also done out at Sundance talking about American Idol. The accompanying article on the website says,

“In an exclusive interview the American Idol season 4 contestant jokes that he’s in Sundance for “the free stuff!” Before going on to explain the real reason, he’s there supporting the producers of his New York show, Rock of Ages, who have a couple of movies at the celeb filled festival in Park Slope, Utah.”

2010 Sundance Film Festival

James Carpinello, Emily Padgett, and Constantine arrive for a screening of 'Sympathy for Delicious' at the Sundance Film Festival

Constantine and fellow Rock of Ages cast members James Carpinello and Emily Padgett gave a performance last night at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT.  The music was provided by the band called Arsenal who plays at Rock of Ages on Broadway.  Their performance was at a party for the films Hesher starring Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon Levitt and Sympathy for Delicious which stars Mark Ruffalo, Laura Linney, Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis.  Matt Weaver and Scott Prisand, co-owners of Corner Store Entertainment are the producers of both films.  They also are producers for Rock of Ages.

Earlier in the day, Constantine was photographed in Park City:

Other pictures were taken of him in the Lounge at The Lift:

Here is one from the performance.

Twitters describing the show included Kay Jones, a Senior Editorial Producer at CNN:

Awesome show by the @rockofages gang. Calling it a night now

and

By the way, that @ConstantineM can sing! Tried to chat w/him but too many fans taking photos

Also Hillary Weaver, a Rock of Ages producer, twittered this:

@ConstantineM & @TheJimmyCarp & Emily Padgett rocked it so hard tonight! The party was awesome!!! #SympathyforDelicious #Sundance

Photos here courtesy of wireimage.com.  There are many more at their site you can see.

Addition:  Kay Jones of CNN posted this on her blog:

1215a: Just arrived at the Bing sponsored party at Village at the Yard. The cast of Rock of Ages is on stage right now, singing some of the favorites from the show. I can’t see them as I am still waiting… Outside…. In the snow.

1220a: Made it inside! Constantine Maroulis is leading the cast in “Don’t Stop Believing”, as the crowd sings along.

1a: The show is over. Constantine and gang have come out to the room to hang with the crowd. Can’t get close enough to ask how their Sundance is going. I do overhear him say something of the effect of: “this is cool”.

Haitian Fundraising Event

This was found on Blogwing.  It is about a fund raising event and a silent auction to be held at 1Oak in New York on Thursday, Jan. 21.  Constantine is on the committe.  Be sure to click the link and get more information on the site.

Like everyone else, we were heartbroken by the devastation that hit Haiti last week and thought what can we do. Before we can even begin to think we received a message from our friend Emma Snowdon-Jones about putting together a benefit. She had contacted her friend Nigel Barker who has actually shot a film on Haiti and in the past held a fundraiser to build a school there and the ball was rolling. We secured a venue with 1OAK and our friend Eve Salvail, also known as DJ Evalicious agreed to spin. We decided to hold a silent auction/online auction at the same time and the items came pouring in as well. So if you are in New York this Thursday won’t you stop by 1OAK from 9 to 11, if you can’t stay, make a donation. All proceed are going to EDEYO and Concern Worldwide. We are suggesting a donation of $40 at the door. There will be surprise performances and we have a pretty star studded committee including: Gabriel Byrne, Terry George, Estelle, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Scott Buccheit, Nigel Barker, Amy Sacco, Anne Vincent, Ranjana Khan, Gillian Hearst, Phillip Bloch, Danielle Thur, Scott Sartiano, Bettina Prentice, Richie Akiva, Ronnie Madra, Jeffrey Jah, Thom Felicia, David Barton and Constantine Maroulis.

Yesterday, Constantine tweeted:

Gettin a lil’ trim…gonna save some locks to raise money for Haiti. Anyone interested??? Hmmmm??

And he attached this photo to his tweet:

Will the golden locks be a part of the auction at this event?

Jan. 20 show at Highline Ballroom

By Andrew Gans
20 Jan 2010

Visit the Highline Ballroom website for tickets.

Constantine in Playbill this month

I’m a Playbill junky – I love that little booklet they give you when you go to shows.  I wait until I get home and then I read it from cover to cover.  So a few weeks ago, I went to see Ragtime, the musical that was on Broadway, I got my Playbill and as is my routine, I waited until later that night to read it.  It was quite a nice surprise to see Constantine in it not once, but two times.

This first article is a popular feature – the Celebrity Choice restaurant picks.  Is it any surprise what appeared as his favorite dish?

And here is the second one:

Charles Isherwood, NY Times, writes about ‘Rock of Ages’

NY Times photo by Joan Marcus

When Rock of Ages opened back in April, 09, it received a very good review from the New York Times critic Charles Isherwood.  In today’s edition of the Times, Mr. Isherwood has written again about the show and it is quite a nice review.  The article is the story of his taking in a “double feature” day of theater where he first saw South Pacific and then that evening went to Rock of Ages.   Here is how he begins:

From Rodgers and Hammerstein to Bon Jovi and Whitesnake in a single day: the surrealism of it tickled. And while Broadway traditionalists might use the occasion to illustrate and deplore the precipitous decline of the musical, you’ll get no such argument from me. Granted, “Rock of Ages” is, um, no “South Pacific.” But if the colonization of Broadway by pop songbooks of varying vintages and qualities has hardly been a phenomenon wholly worthy of celebration, there are pleasures to be had, and “Rock of Ages” is definitely one of them.

Amongst his comments about ROA, he says this about Constantine:

Constantine Maroulis, the “American Idol” competitor with lungs of steel, has proved himself to be a winning, sweet-spirited and completely natural actor in the lead role of Drew, negotiating the bridge between sincerity and spoof with breezy amiability.

“Lungs of steel” – wow – good way to describe that powerhouse voice.

Read the entire article online at the New York Times website.  Be sure to go to p. 2 to read the complete review of Rock of Ages.

Interview on 101.9 RXP continued

The third part of Constantine’s interview on radio station 101.9 RXP was aired this morning.  In this segment, he talks with The Rock Show’s disc jockeys Matt Pinfield and Leslie Fram about his experience on American Idol and some thoughts about what might happen with the show.

The segment is available on the 101.9 RXP website.  If that link is not working, check the Rock Show’s page on the site.

Click here for the segment played on Tuesday.

Interview on 101.9RXP

Constantine was a guest for an interview on NY radio station 101.9 RXP.  The interview is being broadcast over a series of at least three days with Matt Pinfield on The Rock Show which is also co-hosted by Leslie Fram.

The interview on Monday was already in progress when I turned on my car radio.  Matt asked Constantine to describe the character of Drew that he plays in Rock of Ages and they also discussed how Constantine came to be in the show.

Today’s interview centered around an incident where Constantine saw Jon Bon Jovi out somewhere and a little conversation they had.  They also discussed the possibility of Jon coming to see Rock of Ages.

Another segment is going to be played tomorrow and Matt said that it will be about Constantine’s American Idol experience.