Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#0Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:04pm
There have been many legendary performances on Broadway over the last several decades. If you could pick five to be able to go back in time and see, what would they be?
In no particular order:
Natasha Richardson in Cabaret
Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Angela Lansbury in Gypsy
Tyne Daly in Gypsy
Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls
MissElphie
Broadway Star Joined: 4/4/05
#1re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:06pm
Wow, cool Idea. Most of mine are the OBC of things, since I don't live near NYC and never get to see them. In order:
Idina/Kristin in Wicked
Nathan/Matthew in The Producers
OBC of RENT
OBC of Les Mis
and Sarah Brightman in POTO
#3re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:10pm
Assassins
The Frogs
Sweet Smell of Success
Hunter Foster in Little Shop of Horrors
Daniel Davis in La Cage aux Folles
George Hearn in La Cage aux Folles
Terrence Mann in Beauty and the Beast
Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof
Nathan Lane in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Len Cariou in Sweeney Todd
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Updated On: 6/10/05 at 12:10 PM
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#4re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:11pm
Lea Salonga- Miss Saigon
Sutton Foster- TMM
Michael Ball- Les Miserables
Ruthie Henshall- Chicago
Devan May- Bat Boy
Kiki Dee- Blood Brothers
This Is Our Youth- Most Of The Casts
Jonathon Pryce- My Fair Lady
Richard O Brian- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Idina Menzel- Wicked
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
Updated On: 6/9/05 at 12:11 PM
SWTaffy
Leading Actor Joined: 11/3/04
#5re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:11pm
stephanie mills in the wiz
jennifer holliday in dreamgirls
Clevant in dreamgirls
It's worth a shot/ :)
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MissElphie
Broadway Star Joined: 4/4/05
#6re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:11pmOooh...I forgot about Lea in Miss Saigon...I wanna add that to my list as well.
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#7re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:14pm
Dorothy Collins in FOLLIES
Gwen Verdon in SWEET CHARITY
Dorothy Loudon in SWEENEY TODD
Barbara Cook in SHE LOVES ME
Natalia Markarova in ON YOUR TOES
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#8re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:22pm
The Little Foxes: Tallulah Bankhead/Patricia Collinge
The Glass Menagerie: Laurette Taylor
Gypsy: Ethel Merman
Chicago: Verdon/Rivera/Orbach
Follies: Smith/McMartin
Flop I wish I had seen: Carrie I have always kicked myself for not going.
#9re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:25pm
Kristin and Roger in YAGMCB
Gwen and Chita in Chicago
Teri Hatcher in Cabaret
Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady
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Updated On: 6/9/05 at 12:25 PM
november
Featured Actor Joined: 5/17/05
#10re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:39pm
Dorothy Collins in Follies WOW that was one of the best performances I ever saw
Hugh Jackman Boy from Oz
#11re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 12:42pmAngela Lansbury in Mame, Gypsy and Dear World
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PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:02pm
List No. 2
Patti LuPone in Evita
Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Krisin Chenoweth in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change
dotmarie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/14/03
#13re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:05pm
Lea Salonga... in pretty much everything (but especially Flower Drum Song..I went JUST after she had left)
Jane Krakowski in Nine
JLT in Wicked
Susan Egan in Cabaret
Audra McDonald in Ragtime
#14re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:10pmWell, it changes based on what musical I'm currently obsessed with. So right now, I'm dying to go back and see the revival cast of Assassins.
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#15re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:12pm
Richard Kiley in Man of La Mancha
Burton/Goulet/Andrews in Camelot
Cook & Preston in Music Man
"Not a day goes by..."
#16re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:17pm
Julie Andrews - My Fair Lady
OBC - Rogers & Hart's JUMBO
Barbra - Funny Girl
Judy at Carnegie Hall
Hugh Jackman - Boy From Oz
Ann Miller - Mame
#17re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:23pm
Matthew and Nathan in The Producers
The OBC of RENT
Idina and Kristen and Norbert in Wicked
Anthony Rapp in LSoH
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#18re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:26pm
Carolee Carmello in PARADE
Jennifer Holliday in DREAMGIRLS
Whoopi Goldberg in A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Dorothy Loudon in BALLROOM
the original cast of COMPANY
the original cast of DEAR WORLD
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#19re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:29pm
Barbra - Funny Girl
Carol Channing - Hello Dolly
Ethel Merman - Gypsy
Patti - Evita and Anything Goes
Judy - Carnegie Hall
Julie Andrews - My Fair Lady
OBC - West Side Story
OBC - Once on this Island
#20re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:29pm
Jessica Tandy - Streetcar
Julie Harris - The Lark
Barbara Belle Geddes - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Jason Robards - A Thousand Clowns
Colleen Dewhurst or Uta Hagen - Virginia Woolf
Eva La Gallienne - The Seagull
evwicked77
Understudy Joined: 9/18/04
#21re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:34pm
OBC-Rent
Broderick & Lane-The Producers
Idina-Wild Party
Les Mis- I never saw it and it was and still is my all-time favorite.
Hugh Jackman-Boy from Oz
#22re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:45pm
Idina and Julia in Wild Party
Norbert and Sherie in L5Y
Mary-Louise Parker in Proof
"She sang each word, the angels heard ... They closed her mouth and shipped her south. The woman's done."
#23re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 1:46pm
Lauren Bacall in Applause
Liza in Victor/Victoria
Bebe Neuwirth in Chicago
"I want to tell you that Elvis would be proud." I said: "Priscilla, if I get 100 bad reviews, it won't matter because of what you said."
#24re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:04pm
Robert Preston in Music Man
The OBC of Phantom of the Opera
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone
amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
--Dave Berry
#25re: Performances You Wish You Had Seen.
Posted: 6/9/05 at 2:09pm
Michael Moriarity & Jane Alexander in Find Your Way Home
Uta Hagen in The Seagull and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Leonard Nimoy in Equus
George C Scott in Plaza Suite
Wendy Hiller in Moon for the Misbegotten
Liza Minnelli in Victor/Victoria
Mimi Hines in Funny Girl
Tony Randall in M Butterfly
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