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Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews
Stephen Sondheim and William Shakespeare
OR
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein
OR
Patti LuPone and Ethel Merman
OR
Laurence Olivier and Angela Lansbury
Updated On: 6/23/10 at 12:47 PM
Stephen Sondheim and Bob Fosse; and then I'd develop osmosis and go write the best show ever. God, imagine if they had collaborated on something... if it ever worked it would beat anything that came before it. That's what I'd do at that dinner; convince them to collaborate!
Barbra Streisand and Lainie Kazan.
I like the ALW and Patti LuPone idea
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Sondheim and Laurents
or maybe Merman and Laurents.
Sondheim & Liza
How about Liza and Alice Ripley?
All that crazy would not fit at one table.
Gosh, I don't know. I've always wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein, but I'd be more interested in his concer work than his theatre work, so he's out.
Maybe Jerry Robbins and Michael Bennett. I've encountered Sondheim and Prince (though not at a dinner party), so they're out.
"Stephen Sondheim and Bob Fosse; and then I'd develop osmosis and go write the best show ever. God, imagine if they had collaborated on something... if it ever worked it would beat anything that came before it. That's what I'd do at that dinner; convince them to collaborate!"
The problem with a Fosse-Sondheim collaboration wouldbe that it would never have happened. Sondhei has little intersted in showbiz and that's all that Fosse did (not denying that he did it brilliantly though). That's why Michael Bennett and Sondheim never did a show together after Follies, although I think with maturation (had he lived), Bennett would have gotten interested in other things and done another Sondheim show.
Updated On: 6/23/10 at 10:29 PM
Oh! this is actually fun!
intellectually:
Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett
...other:
Susan Blackwell and Jackie Hoffman ( i don't think i could eat anything because i'd be laughing so hard...)
Stephen Sondheim and Audra McDonald
Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno
Ethel Merman and George C. Scott.
newintown: You reminded me of the great Lehman Engel. I would like to spend an evening with Lehman Engel, just the two of us, talking and gossiping about all things Broadway.u
Anybody, paired with anybody: Jonathan Larson, Seth Rudetsky, Michael Grief, Tom Kitt, Angela Lansbury, Remy Zaken (obsessed), and Marc Shaiman. The list goes on.
Shakespeare and Sondheim. But I'd definitely need more than just one dinner....there would be so much to discuss.
Shakespeare and Orson Welles or Olivier and Branagh
Daisy and Violet Hilton
for real?
I love myshikobit's combo of Sondheim and Fosse. Two true geniuses who always seem(ed) to exhibit genial, humble personas in public.
HA at Daisy and Violet!
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Jackie Hoffman and Nathan Lane
My choices
Oscar Wilde & Stephen Sondheim. I am sure the conversation would be very stimulating!
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The first person to pop into my head was Elaine Stritch (back in her drinking days) and then, maybe Carol Burnett. Or Jerry Orbach. Acutally, the list is endless.
Sondheim and Vivien Leigh
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Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
I would love Fosse and Sondheim. Good one.
Some I've thought of:
Sondheim and Harold Arlen (Love Arlen, and you know Sondheim would have a good time too.)
Susan Johnson and Karen Morrow (A night out with some awesome belters! They also seem like lovely people.)
Fosse and Gwen Verdon (In the 1960s, preferably. I'd get wasted and sing some old tunes with them .)
John LaTouche and Sondheim would be a good one too.... John LaTouche and anyone, I think. John LaTouche and Alan Jay Lerner, perhaps?
Can't think of who I'd pair Michael Bennett with, but I'd love to have dinner with him. Maybe just a relaxed evening with Michael and Donna.
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