First show seen on broadway?
Sep 16
2014, 04:50:55 PM
First show on Broadway - Two Gentlemen of Verona (April 1972)
First musical production - West Side Story, Summer 1968, North Shore Music Theater
First Broadway tour - Fiddler on the Roof (1969? - Paul Lipson as Tevye?)
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Favorite CD by a broadway star/performer?
Aug 22
2013, 03:31:42 PM
Barbara Cook - Close as Pages in a Book (all songs by Dorothy Fields).
A must have CD
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what is the most overrated musical of all time
Jan 8
2013, 03:24:57 PM
Cats
Spring Awakening
Light in the Piazza
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What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?
May 24
2012, 01:09:22 PM
Another vote for Michael Jeter in Grand Hotel. Watch his performance on that Tony Award show and listen to his acceptance speech and you can't help getting a lump in your throat.
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re: Grade the 63rd Annual Tony telecast performances!
Jun 8
2009, 10:22:00 AM
Opening Number: (no grade - just missed it)
Billy Elliot: C (disappointing - gave me no interest to see BE)
Guy and Dolls: D (how can you blow Sit Down is beyond me)
Hair: A- (finally gave some life in the Tony show)
Legally Blond: C- (dumb)
Mamma Mia: C- (dumber)
Jersey Boys: C- (dumbest)
Next to Normal: A-(making plans now to see)
Rock of Ages: B+ (and I hate music of this era)
Shrek: B (fun choice)
West Side Story: B (safe
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re: Neil Patrick Harris
Jun 8
2009, 09:54:14 AM
Excellent job. Had a "Billy Crystalish" quality.
Right up there with the best of Tony host, Angela Lansbury, who is class personified
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re: Broadway Crush?
Jul 10
2007, 12:32:06 PM
Jane Krakowski .... sigh
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re: The BARBARA COOK Discussion, News, and Love Thread!!!
Jul 10
2007, 12:25:12 PM
Studio Album - Close as Pages in a Book
Live Album - Live from London
Song - Erroll Flynn (little known song but she delivers it perfectly - check out Live from London)
Our name - How about "Glitterarti"
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re: Lip Synching - A Moral Question
Jul 9
2007, 03:37:15 PM
What part of "live" theater don't you get?
Lip-synching for any reason is a sham and plain wrong (I want to hear an actual performance, not a perfect one - for that I can listen to the OBC).
Several years ago a local theater wanted to use synthesized music to save costs - I and mnay other supporters told them that our subscriptions and donations would be cancelled if they went ahead with their plan - the result, live music only.
So unless the piece calls for an obvious
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re: Most erotic moment?
Jun 22
2007, 11:01:15 AM
Judge Turpin's self flagelation scene in Sweeney Todd (now often cut out or restaged).
I also agree about that one King & I moment. You can hear it in their voices.
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re: Scott Rudin and The New York Times Battle over Quote
Apr 20
2007, 02:24:28 PM
A few weeks ago I heard Terrence McNally interviewed by Seth Rudetsky.
He told a story about asking composers for audition songs for Ragtime.
The Ahrens and Flaherty tape included "Wheels of a Dream". When the show opened, an article in the New York Times claimed that Ford Motors required the inclusion of a song about the Ford Model T in the show since they were using the Ford Center for the Performing Arts. McNally wrote to the Times and said they were wrong since he had the
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I saw her perform just last August
Apr 20
2007, 11:39:36 AM
Estelle Winwood it is.
Hold Me, Touch Me" in the original movie version of The Producers.
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I saw her perform just last August
Apr 19
2007, 05:18:55 PM
The last Grande Dame. They don't make 'em like her any more.
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re: shows that flopped that should not have
Apr 19
2007, 05:11:33 PM
Although I consider Ragtime in the top 5 musicals of all time and it has not received the recognition it is due, I hardly consider it a flop.
My nominee - Parade.
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re: The BEST Acceptance Speech EVER
Apr 19
2007, 04:59:41 PM
I thought about this overnight and logged on today to mention Michael Jeter's acceptance speech. I was pleased to see that others felt the same way. (let's face it, you don't really think all that much about acceptance speeches)
Jeter's speech was honest and emotional (and yes I got teary eyed when I just listened to it again).
Great talent (check out his performance in "Welcome to Collinwood"). His performance at the Tony Awards that year in "We'll Take a Glass Together" is
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re: Seth Rudetsky to write weekly column for Playbill.com
Mar 26
2007, 03:55:37 PM
Listening to Seth on Sirius, I'm convinced that he is one of the most knowledgeable people on Broadway's past and present (and funny to boot).
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re: Favorite jaw-dropping or hilarious moments onstage
Jan 24
2006, 04:50:02 PM
Hillarious moment - during "Betrayed" in The Producers, Bialystock stopping and sitting down for a few seconds when he gets to "Intermission".
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re: For those of you who have questioned Tyne Daly's Tony win as Momma Rose
Jan 18
2006, 01:36:26 PM
Add me to the list of those who think Daly's performance was amazing. Has the toughness of Merman and the vulnerableness of Peters.
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re: Best Overture vote
Sep 11
2005, 07:04:52 PM
There's Gypsy.....
and then everything else!
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re: Most Romantic Broadway Lyrics
Aug 31
2005, 08:50:36 PM
All my wildest dreams
multiplied by two,
they were you
they were you
they were you.
Fantastiks
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