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Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
jake6970
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
#25re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:33pmLea will be one of Broadway's biggest stars in the coming years. But that's a whole different category than what you guys are talking about. Future is different than legends of today.
#26re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:35pmI hope that Anika Noni Rose will be on that list.
#27re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:37pm
Great addition.
Anika absolutely has what it takes to be a legend, if she sticks to doing Broadway.
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#28re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:45pmTo be a "legend", you should be in legendary, memorable, leading (or even a supporting that's eligible for a Tony nomination) performances. Child actors with 10 lines in the whole production don't count, no matter how good the show is. Stokes and Audra in Ragtime? Legendary. Lea in Ragtime? No.
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Updated On: 2/25/08 at 11:45 PM
Wanting life but never knowing how
jake6970
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/07
#29re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:07amWhat about the future legend part of the post? Half of the actors posted are already considered legends by some. We're talking about who we think will be future legends. Can we give the girl some time to get a tony nod?
#30re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:11am
If I had to pick one, then Audra.
Also Stokes, Kristin, Donna, Nathan...
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#31re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:21amMarin Mazzie, Tonya Pinkins, Heather Headley (if she returns), Laura Benanti (definitely more so than Kelli O'Hara), and I'll go with the other Lea... Lea Salonga who could grow even more.
#32re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:26amLaChanze, if she were to keep doing Broadway.
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#33re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:31am
"Laura Benanti (definitely more so than Kelli O'Hara)"
Ummm....No.
jaso937
Stand-by Joined: 5/20/07
#34re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:33amI would say definately Audra, Sherie, Brian (D'Arcy and Stokes), Raul, Norbert, Solanga, all have legendary in their future.
#35re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:39amAlso, I wish Marc Kudisch and Brent Barrett would have legendary status, but they just don't get those high profile roles.
#36re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:44am
Definitely Donna Murphy.
Audra McDonald, Christine Ebersole, Tonya Pinkins, Jane Krakowski, Anika Noni Rose, and Kristin Chenoweth all deserve the spot as well.
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LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#38re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 1:01amI wonder if any Broadway producer is willing to hire Patinkin after THE WILD PARTY fiasco.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#40re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 6:05amWell with Alice Ripley's Return to NYC, if she sticks around she has the potential to reach Legendary status.
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#41re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 7:03am
Urgh. The snob is starting to come out a bit, but I will not say anything.
I however will agree wholeheartly with the fact Audra, Kristen & Sutton are on their way (if not already there). Heck Sutton's rise to fame story alone make her legend worthy.
Funnily enough while there are definately legendary men out there past and present, the title is more... female orientated. It just doesn't go with a leading man's story.
Updated On: 2/26/08 at 07:03 AM
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#42re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 10:11amHow about Cheyenne Jackson?
BroadwayEd
#43re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 10:32amif he ever returns to Broadway: John Lloyd Young
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#44re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 11:56am
To become a "legend" the performer would have to become enough of a box-office name to draw crowds beyond the general theatre going public. It would have to be someone who has the stamina to do 8 shows a week and commit to a run for at least a year (and be prepared to run longer.)
Trouble is most of today's performers get lazy and undisciplined and skip out on performances or don't give their all every night. Too many of them are seeking fame in movies or TV, and not really interested in Broadway.
To be fair, without that TV/film exposure many of them do not achieve the marquee recognition beyond the theatre crowd.
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Tom148502
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#45re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:28pmSimple answer. There are none. Peters, Lupone, Buckley, and Chenoweth haven't had and never will have the careers or talent to become true legends.
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#46re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 8:07pm
Wow....I certainly disagree with that!
I think that Stephanie J. Block, Cheyenne Jackson and Sutton Foster have the potential to become legends.
And I know that Peters, LuPone and to a less extent Buckley are already legends.
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#47re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 8:10pm
Not a single person on the list puts butts in seats, the only measure of a true star and legend.
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Updated On: 2/26/08 at 08:10 PM
#48re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 8:16pm
Sutton Foster
Audra McDonald
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Cheyenne Jackson (eventually)
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#49re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)
Posted: 2/26/08 at 8:33pmSherie Renee Scott
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