Bernadette Peters for "Mack and Mabel" in '75. Maggie Smith for "Private Lives" in '75. GWEN VERDON for "Chicago" in '76. Lindsay Duncan for "Dangerous Liaisons" in '87. Stockard Channing for "Six Degrees of Separation" in '91. Faith Prince for "Bells are Ringing" in '01. BERNADETTE PETERS for "Follies" in '12.
My three favorite R&H songs are: "Some Enchanted Evening", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "If I Loved You". I would say a tossup between "Carousel" and "South Pacific".
My favorite "modern" torch songs are: Lloyd Webber's "Tell Me on a Sunday", Jerry Herman's "Time Heals Everything" and, best of all, Sondheim's "Losing My Mind".
I was in NY two months ago and the three plays that I saw were either disposable ("Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Orphans") or dreadfuly done ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof")- and they all lost money. I read that "Beakfast at Tiffany's" had lost its entire four-million dollar investment; I was wondering how much "Orphans" had lost.