Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#0Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:11am
My top 5 are:
1. Galinda Upland/Glinda the Good
2. Max Bialystock
3. Sky Masterson
4. Reno Sweeney (from Anything Goes)
5. The Leading Player (from Pippin)
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 11:11 AM
#1re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:20am
Fosca from PASSION is the end all-be all for me and always will be.
"Years from now, when you talk about this - And you will - Be kind. "
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#2re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:26amWell, Jamie Wellerstein (sp?) via Norbert is pretty cool in my book. Other favorites have to be Jack from Into The Woods, Bobby from Crazy For You, Billy from Anything Goes, Jimmy from Millie, and Mark from Rent.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#3re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:28am
Mama Rose from GYPSY
Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett from SWEENEY TODD
Miss Adelaide from GUYS AND DOLLS
Henry Higgins from MY FAIR LADY
John Adams from 1776
among others ....
#4re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:58am
Mama Rose (Gypsy)
Troy Maxon (Fences)
Big Daddy (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Sweeney Todd (Sweeney)
Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney)
Elphaba (Wicked)
Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman)
The Stage Manager (Our Town)
Beverlyl Carlton (The Man Who Came to Dinner)
Charity Hope Valentine (Sweet Charity)
Edward Rutledge (1776)
Dot (Sunday in the Park With George)
Adelaide (Guys and Dolls)
Effie Melody White (Dreamgirls)
Harold Hill (The Music Man)
Tevye (Fiddler on the Roof)
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Ragtime)
Cassie (A Chorus Line)
Paul (A Chorus Line)
Desiree Armfeldt (A Little Night Music)
Fredrik Eggerman (A Little Night Music)
Madame Armfeldt (A Little Night Music)
Tommy Albright (Brigadoon)
Jeff Douglas (Brigadoon)
Mame Dennis (Auntie Mame)
Vera Charles (Auntie Mame)
Dolly Levi (Hello, Dolly!)
Fagin (Oliver!)
Nancy (Oliver!)
The Man in the Chair (The Drowsy Chaperone) - once it opens
The Drowsy Chaperone (The Drowsy Chaperone) - once it opens
Probably far too many more to name... which is why I love theatre so damn much.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#5re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:59amI probably know who Dollypop is going to say.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#6re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:01pm
Mrs. Lovett (sweeney todd)
Mark Cohen (rent)
Velma Kelly (chicago)
Audrey (lsoh)
Audrey II (lsoh)
Seymour (lsoh)
Elphaba (wicked)
The Witch (into the woods)
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 12:01 PM
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#7re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:08pmJohn Merrick, THE ELEPHANT MAN.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#8re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:09pm
1. Mame- Most poor suckers are starving to death and MAME lives her life!!! She is perhaps the greatest character of all time.
2. Kate Monster- For those of us trying to make it! 
3. Trekkie and Princeton for making Kate Monster's dreams come true. ()
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 12:09 PM
#9re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:35pm
Javert- Les Miz
Phantom- POTO
Norma Desmond- Sunset Boulevard
Sweeney Todd- Sweeney Todd
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine!
-The Likes of Us
#10re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:59pm
Sweeney Todd
Mamma Rose
Madame Armfeldt and Carl-Magnus
Edna Turnblad
Charity Hope Valentine
The Proprietor
Margaret Johnson
Mimi Marquez
Guido Contini
The Lady Of The Lake
Sister Aloysius
Richard Roma
Martha and George.
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 12:59 PM
Bwaybaby109
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/03
#11re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:04pm
Mama Rose-Gypsy
Glinda-Wicked
Phantom-POTO
Max Bialystock-Producers
Tracy-Hairspray
Mrs. Lovett-Sweeney Todd
The Baker's Wife-Into the Woods
Pseudolys-A Funny Thing
Finch-How to Succeed
"Have a child for warmth and a baker for bread and a prince for... whatever!"
#12re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:10pmDot from Sunday in the Park with George
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#13re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:31pm
Elphie: Wicked!
Maureen: Rent
Mark: Rent
Anmeris: Aida
#14re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:41pmAnna Antonelli - "The Rink"
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
#15re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:08pm
Charity Hope Valentine, "Sweet Charity"
Clara Johnson, "The Light in the Piazza"
Glinda, "The Wiz"
Lawrence Jameson, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Elphaba Thropp, "Wicked"
Effie Melody White, "Dreamgirls"
Maureen Johnson, "Rent"
Kate Monster, "Avenue Q"
Christine Colgate, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Olive Ostrovsky, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
William Barfee, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
Velma Kelly, "Chicago"
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 03:08 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#16re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:44pm
Mark- RENT
Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd
Eva- Evita
Millie- Throughly Modern Millie
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#17re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:54pm
Crazy hard question....
Momma Rose (Gypsy)
Louise (Gypsy)- she breaks my heart everytime I saw the show...
Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)
Sweeney Todd
Toby (Sweeney Todd)
The Baker's Wife (Into the Woods)
Tevye (Fiddler on the Roof)
Golde (Fiddler on the Roof)
Mother (Ragtime)
Tateh (Ragtime)
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 03:54 PM
#18re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:07pm
1.Fosca-Passion, the best character in my opinion.
2.Miss Adelaide-Guys & Dolls
3.Sally Bowles-Cabaret
4.Velma Kelly-Chicago
5.Dot-Sunday In The Park With George
6.Momma Rose-Gypsy
7.Martha-Company
8.Molina-Kiss of the Spider Woman
9.Mother-Ragtime
10.Mrs.Lovett-Sweeney Todd
11.Ruth Sherwood-Wonderful Town
12.Anna-The King and I
"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"
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 04:07 PM
#19re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:28pm
MALES
Roger Davis (Rent)
Radames (Aida)
Snoopy (You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Boq (Wicked)
Archibald (The Secret Garden)
The Phantom (Phantom of the Opera)
Freddy Benson (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Andre (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Prince Dauntless (Once Upon a Mattress)
And because I'm not exactly sure where to put him/her...
Angel Dumott Schunard (Rent)
FEMALES
Maureen Johnson (Rent)
Sally Brown (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
Elphaba Thropp (Wicked)
Cathy Hiatt (Last Five Years) [like there was a choice]
Princess Amneris (Aida)
Lucy The Slut (Avenue Q)
Rumpleteazer (Cats) [my very first favorite]
Eponine (Les Miserables)
Velma (Chicago)
Kate (the Wild Party)
And just because she's so damn funny...
The Usherette (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
"I haven't got a pail."
"Find your grail, your GRAIL!"
"But it's not missing. It's right on the counter where it's supposed to- defying gravity, my giant cup's gone!"
"Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do you measure... measure a year?"
"How many times do I have to tell you, it's five hundred twenty-five thousand, five hundred and eighty-five point thirty-two minutes. You will never graduate if you keep basing your math on showtunes."
"You ruin Broadway for me."
"As well I should."
mad4music
Stand-by Joined: 7/2/05
#20re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:22pm
Elphaba
Elphaba
and... ELPHABA! -wicked :)
Also-
Mark- RENT
Galinda- Wicked
Phantom- POTO
Fantine- Les Mes
Eponine- Les Mes
but pretty much just Elphaba!
#21re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:26pm
number one by far: Mark (rent)
and the others that give me goosebumps (in no particular order!)
Eponine (Les Miserables)
G(a)linda (wicked)
Freddy (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Angel (rent)
Collins (rent)
Maureen (rent)[basically all the characters in rent are so layered and fascinating to me]
Amneris (aida)
Aida (aida)
Adelaid (guys and dolls)
Nancy (oliver!)
Fantine (les miserables)
Velma (chicago)
"...but it was us, baby, who were the lucky ones."
#22re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:29pm
Norma Desmond - Sunset Boulevard
Roger - Rent
Cathy - The last five years
Seymour - Little shop of horrors
Roxie - Chicago
Princeton - Avenue Q
Joseph - Joseph and the amazing...
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#23re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:50pm
Eponine/Fantine - Les Miz
Glinda/Elphie - Wicked
Mimi/Maureen/Mark/Roger - Rent
Chistine/Freddy - DRS. Although, it's mostly Norbert who takes my breath away, not Freddy :)
Velma - Chicago
Chistine/Phantom - POTO
Sally - YAGMCB
Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd
Margaret/Clara - Piazza
#24re: Who is(are) your all-time favorite Broadway character(s)?
Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:55pm
Alex - Aspects of Love
Roger - Rent
Frank N Furter - Rocky Horror
The Emcee - Cabaret
Lumiere - Beauty and the Beast
Rum Tum Tugger - Cats
Sweeney - Sweeney Todd
Jamie - Last Five Years
Leaf Coneybear - Spelling Bee
Pippin - Pippin
Freddie - Chess
"The theater is my life. I live it. I breathe it. I fondle it till it falls asleep." Jack (Will And Grace)
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