Lindsay Korman (Theresa, Passions) has made a habit of falling into careers, but its her most recent one - dramatic acting - that really caught her by surprise. "I never expected to do a soap opera," admits Korman. "I was signing, which is what I've done since I was 14. I thought that I was going to be a recording artists."
    That dream was temporarily sidetracked when a friend introduced Korman to the Don Buchwald Agency, which sent her on her first two auditions: Passions and the upcoming film parody, Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween. "I didn't get the movie, but I did get Passions," she smiles. "So [my agents] were really happy with me. It was a complete accident, but it's been like a dream come true. It's a lot of hardwork, but it's awesome."
     Not that hardwork is a foreign concept to the actress. Born and raised in the Palm Springs area (where her parents ran an import furniture store), Korman started performing early on. "I had done a couple of pageants and I won first place for beauty when I was about 13," she remembers.
    Unfortunately, when it came to the talent portion, Korman confesses she came up short. I wanted to dance freestyle," she laughs."But my mother was like,`I can't let you do that. Why don't you just sing?' " Korman sang instead. And? "I didn't win the talent, but I still won the beauty," she smiles.
    All that changed when Korman met choreographer Gary White. "I never won beauty again, but I won talent everywhere I went," she beams. "I was a shoo-in." The lead role in a local production of The Wizard of Oz followed, but it wasn't until Korman's family moved to Las Vegas when she was 16 that performing turned from a hobby into a career. Korman became the youngest female performer on the famed Vegas Strip when she landed the lead vocalist spot in Viva Las Vegas, a daytime revunye at the Sands Hotel and Casino. While less risque than most burlesque shows Vegas offered in the evening, "They still had their little rear ends out," she giggles
    It was during that time that an L.A. vocal coach spotted Korman and got her an audition for the role of Sandy in the Broadway production of Grease. "I'm olive-skinned with brown hair,  not the typical Sandy," she cracks. "But I sang for them and got a great vibe. I walked out of there and was like, "I think they really liked me."
    They did-- Korman was cast in th e ensemble, understudying the roles of Patty Simcox and Sandy. "I moved myself to New York," she notes. "I never lived on my own before, and I had to learn the city."
    Not that she had much time during her three-month stay in the Big Apple. Between learning both her understudy roles during the day, and performing in the ensemble at night, Korman found little opportunity to explore her adopted town. After Grease Korman stared in productions from Texas to Greece.
     While Kporman hasn't given up signing(she recently cut a demo with Michael Jackson's brother, Jackie), she insists that she is committed to her new career as Ethan-obsessed-Theresa -- and her newly acquired soap fans. "Everybody says that they hope Theresa ends up with Ethan," she smiles.
      Ah yes, the Crane conundrum. If Korman were to offer advice to her love-lorn counterpart what would it be?" And she would listen to it?" quips the actress. "I would tell her t hat I understand where she is coming from and I know that she loves him. But she is 17, and there could be other men out there. If she had someone tell her, " I know where you are coming from," then maybe she could think more realistically. But no one is doing that. Everyone is like, 'No, no, no.' so she's like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah,' Just like a 17-year-old."

Soap Opera Digest
Oct. 12, 1999