As the World Turns
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[edit] Cast and characters
Current cast members
[edit] Recurring cast members
| Actor | Character |
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| Giovanni Cimmino | Parker Munson |
| Kevin Csolak | Daniel Hughes |
| D.C. Benny | Chaz Dargote |
| Ewa Da Cruz | Vienna Hyatt |
| Dylan Denton | J.J. Larrabee |
| Terri Garber | Iris Dumbrowski |
| Karl Girolamo | Kevin Davis |
| Alexa Gerasimovich | Natalie Snyder |
| Ashlee Marie Greiner | Faith Snyder |
| Marie Masters | Dr. Susan Stewart |
| Duane McLaughlin | Dallas Griffin |
| Daniel Menake | Johnny Donovan |
| Elle Sauli | Sage Snyder |
| Stephen Schnetzer | Cass Winthrop |
| Kathleen Widdoes | Emma Snyder |
[edit] Coming and going cast members
| Actor | Character | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Cavenaugh | Adam Munson | Debuts November 29th |
| Allie Gorenc | Sage Snyder | Debuts December 7th |
| Austin Peck | Brad Snyder | Debuts January 2007 |
| Matthew J. Morrison | Adam Munson | Exits November 27th |
| Paul Leyden | Simon Frasier | Exits December 2006 |
| Mark Collier | Mike Kasnoff | Exits January 2007 |
[edit] Deceased cast members
- Barbara Berjer (Claire Lowell Cassen; 1965-1971) - died in 2002
- Benjamin Hendrickson (Hal Munson; 1985—2006) - died in 2006
- William Johnstone (James Lowell; 1956-1978) - died in 1996
- Don MacLaughlin (Chris Hughes; 1956—1986) - died in 1986
- Santos Ortega (Will Hughes #2; 1956-1976) - died in 1976
- Ethel Remey (Alma Miller; 1963-1977) - died in 1977
[edit] Famous stars
The actors, musicians, and directors who have gotten their start or became better known because of their work on As the World Turns include:
- Courteney Cox Arquette (Bunny; 1984)
- Jason Biggs (Pete Wendall; 1994-1995)
- Brian Bloom (Dustin "Dusty" Donovan; 1983-1988)
- Jordana Brewster (Nikki Munson; 1995-1998)
- Shawn Christian (Mike Kasnoff; 1994-1997)
- Margaret Colin (Margo Montgomery Dixon Hughes; 1980-1983)
- Dana Delany (Hayley Wilson Hollister; 1981)
- William Fichtner (Josh Stricklyn; 1987-1989)
- Thomas Gibson (Derek Mason; 1988-1989)
- James Earl Jones (Dr. Jerry Turner; 1966)
- Lauryn Hill (Kira Johnson; 1991)
- Kristanna Loken (Danielle Andropoulos; 1994)
- Mary McDonnell (Claudia Colfax; 1980)
- Julianne Moore (Frannie Hughes/Sabrina Fullerton Hughes; 1985-1988)
- Ming-Na (Lien Hughes; 1988-1991)
- Annie Parisse (Julia Lindsey Snyder; 1998-2001; 2002)
- Danny Pintauro (Paul Stenbeck; 1983-1984)
- Parker Posey (Tess Shelby; 1991-1992)
- Emmy Rossum (Abigail Williams; 1997)
- Meg Ryan (Betsy Stewart Montgomery Andropoulos; 1982-1984)
- Mark Rydell (Jeff Baker; 1956-1962)
- Roselyn Sanchez (Pilar Domingo; 1996-1997)
- Martin Sheen (Jack Davis; 1965-1970)
- Kerr Smith (Ryder Hughes AKA Teddy Ellison; 1996-1997)
- Richard Thomas (actor) (Thomas "Tommy" Christopher Hughes; 1966-1967)
- Marisa Tomei (Marcy Thompson Cushing; 1983-1985)
- James Van Der Beek (Stephen Anderson; 1995)
- Steven Weber (Kevin Gibson; 1985-1986)
[edit] Plot
As the World Turns was the creation of Irna Phillips who, beginning in the 1930s, had been one of the foremost creators and writers of radio soap operas. As a writer, Phillips favored character development and psychological realism over melodrama, and her previous creations (which included The Guiding Light) were especially notable for placing professionals - doctors, lawyers, and clergypeople - at the center of their storylines.
And so it was with As the World Turns, with its slow-moving psychological character studies of families headed by legal and medical professionals. The personal and professional lives of doctors and lawyers would remain central to As The World Turns throughout its run, and would eventually become standard fare on all soap operas. Whereas the 15-minute radio soaps often focused on one central, heroic character (for example, Dr. Jim Brent in Phillips's Road of Life), the expanded 30-minute format of As The World Turns enabled Phillips to introduce a handful of professionals within the framework of a family saga.
One of Phillips' innovations was to introduce a sort of Greek chorus to the stories. The primary purpose of characters such as Nancy Hughes (played by Helen Wagner) was to comment on the crises faced and decisions made by the town's more dynamic residents. This technique contributed to the popularity of the show and continues to be widely used in other soap operas.
Phillips' style favored gradual evolution over radical change. Slow, conversational, and emotionally intense, the show moved at the pace of life itself - and sometimes even more slowly than that. Each new addition to the cast was done in a gradual manner, and was usually a key contact to one of the members of the Hughes family. As such, the show got a reputation as being quite conservative (though the show did showcase the first gay male character on American soap operas, in 1988). During the show's early decades, the content-related policies of its sponsor Procter & Gamble Productions may have contributed to the perception of conservatism. The soap manufacturing giant typically balked at storylines in which adultery and other immoral behavior would go unpunished, and as late as the 1980s characters from the primary families were still generally not allowed to go through with abortions.
[edit] Setting
[edit] Episode List
[edit] Reviews
[edit] Notes
[edit] External Links
- TV Guide's As the World Turns Page, with TV Listings, Photos, Videos, Exclusive News and More.
- As The World Turns Buddy TV
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