What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
#1What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 6:34pm
Please do not include roles from WSS or Gypsy. You may include leading or featured roles. You don't have to list them in particular order, but feel free to.
My Picks (in order)
1. Sally Durant Plummer (Follies)
2. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)
3. Desiree Armfeldt (A Little Night Music)
4. Dot (Sunday In The Park With George)
5. Fosca (Passion)
Honorable Mentions
- Phyllis Rogers Stone (Follies)
- Joanne (Company)
- The Baker's Wife (Into The Woods)
What are yours?
Updated On: 8/27/10 at 06:34 PM
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#2What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 6:58pm
1. Mrs. Lovett
2. The Baker's Wife
3. Dot
4. Sally Durant Plummer
5. Phyllis Rogers Stone
#2What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:10pm
1. Dot
2. Mrs. Lovett
3. The Baker's Wife
4. Joanne
5. Sally Durant
#3What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:28pm
1. Mrs. Lovett
2. Dot
3. Little Red Riding Hood
4. April
5. Desiree Armfeldt
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#4What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:44pm
In no particular order:
Mrs Lovett (Sweeney)
Phyllis Rogers Stone (Follies)
Mary (Merrily)
Marta (Company)
Witch (Into the Woods)
#5What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 8:48pm
Mrs. Lovett
Amy
Witch
Desiree
Fosca
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#6What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 8:58pm
Mrs. Lovett
Desiree
Joanne
Petra
The Beggar Woman
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#7What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 9:05pm
Fosca
The Baker's Wife
Sally Durrant Plummer
Mrs. Lovett
Amy (Company)
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-Kad
#8What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 9:55pm
Fosca
Mrs. Lovett
The Baker's Wife
Countess Charlotte Malcolm
Dot
Updated On: 8/28/10 at 09:55 PM
#9What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 10:04pm
Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)
Sarah Jane Moore (Assassins)
Marta (Company)
Dot/Marie (Sunday in the Park With George)
The Baker's Wife (Into The Woods)
Just give the world Love.
#10What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 10:17pm
1. The Witch
2. Beggar Woman
3. Amy/Marta
4. Dot
5. Cinderella/Baker's Wife
LEAST FAVORITE
Johanna
Little Red
Anne Egerman
"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times
#11What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 11:07pm
1. Mrs. Lovett
2. Joanne
3. Both of the ladies in FOLLIES
4. Countess Charlotte
5. The Witch
Honorable mention to Baker's Wife and the Armfeldt family
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#12What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 11:47pm
Mrs. Lovett
Dot/Marie
Petra
Joanne
Sally
Other great ones: Charlotte, Desiree, Amy, Baker's Wife and Anne Egerman.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Elphaba43
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/06
#13What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 11:49pm
Dot
Petra
Amy/Sarah
Bakers Wife
Desiree
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chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#14What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:22am
Phyllis
Charlotte
Marta
Amy
Mary
Honourable Mention:
Cora Hoover Hooper
pinoyonbroadway
Understudy Joined: 8/4/07
#15What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:15am
Fosca (Passion)
Sally (Follies)
Dot/Marie (Sunday)
Madame Armfeldt (Night Music)
Phyllis (Follies)
Everybody's Playing The Game
But Nobody's Rules Are The Same
Nobody's On Nobody's Side
#16What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:23am
1) Sally
2) Dot
3) Desiree
4) Cinderella
5) Mrs. Lovett
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#17What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 2:55am
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Dot
The Witch
Cinderella
Amy
wickedfan11
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/06
#18What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:47am
Here are my top 7:
Fosca
Sally
The Witch
The Baker's Wife
Dot
Mrs. Lovett
Desiree
#19What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 8:49am
Fosca
Shogun's Mother
Cora Hoover Hooper
Mrs Lovett
Dot
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#20What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 9:05amI'm adding Cora Hoover Hooper to mine.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#21What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:23pm
Mrs. Lovett
Desire
Dot
The Baker's Wife
And I'm adding Mama Rose in fifth place since she's only half Sondheim's.
....but the world goes 'round
#22What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:44pm
Petra
Mrs. Lovett
Dot/Marie
Desiree
The Baker's Wife
#23What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 4:17pm
Dot
Desiree
Amy
Petra
The Witch
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