A Thread Of Remembrance
A Thread Of Remembrance
Joined: 12/31/69
#1A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:48pm
This thread is for all of you who never will forget those Broadway stars that are no longer with us.
What you do is type in a name of someone you missed. My choice:
Ethel Merman.
rockfenris2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#2re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:50pm
Steve Barton. Phenomenal actor, singer, dancer "triple threat"
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
-South Pacific
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#2re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:50pm
Laurie Beechman
Madeleine Kahn
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual."
-Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#4re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:58pm
Mary Martin
Cyril Ritchard
Leonard Bernstein
Adolf Green
Betty Comden
Moose Charlap
Carolyn Leigh
J.M. Barrie
Charles Frohman
and the rest who brought PETER PAN to us.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#5re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:06pm
the sublime Dorothy Loudon
the brilliant Michael Bennett
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#7re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:20pmHoward Asheman
I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!
#8re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:26pm
Gertrude Lawrence
And I second Betty Comden
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
#9re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:31pmShe's not a performer but I still miss her...Wendy Wasserstein.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
galindagirl2
Stand-by Joined: 12/22/06
#10re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 12:00am
Okay, so not quite Broadway star, but close enough...
Gene Kelly
*sigh*
P.S. Please correct me if I'm unforgiveably wrong, and he ever was featured on Broadway...
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#11re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 12:43amFayard Nicholas (although he was never on Broadway)
#12re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 12:54am
About Gene Kelly:
http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=15285
I knew that he starred in the original Pal Joey and directed the original Flower Drum Song but the rest is interesting.
And in reference to the thread:
A shoutout to Comden and Green <3
also Michael Bennett
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#13re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 1:51pmWow - I didn't know Gene Kelly directed Flower Drum Song! That was my first Broadway show.
#14re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:03pm
John Raitt
Ann Miller
August Wilson
Jerome Kern
Cole Porter
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
Updated On: 1/1/07 at 06:03 PM
#15re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:07pm
gotsa give shout outs to the poeple behind the scenes
Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Richard Rodger
Oscar Hammerstein
Bob Fosee
Larry Hart
#16re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:10pm
Jerry Orbach.
Michael Bennett.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
sondhead
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#17re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:42pm
Michael Bennett
Howard Ashman (I feel like people are oblivious to the genius he was.. quite possibly if he had lived longer he could have been one of the best book writers of our time)
Gregory Hines
Dorothy Loudon
Comden & Green
Leonard Bernstein
John Raitt (Augh... what a VOICE)
#19re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:51pm
Gwen Virdon
Bob Fosse
Gregory Hines
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#20re: A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/1/07 at 7:34pmLarry Kert in all his West Side Story glory and all the brilliant choreographers like Fosse, Robbins, Bennett, etc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#22A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:29pmMy favorite choreographer, next to Michael Bennet, Onna White!
Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#23A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:45pmJerry Orbach, Jonathan Larson, Fosse
"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell
#24A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/30/07 at 8:45pm
Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstien
Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Lowe
Agnes DeMille
Fred Ebb
Cy Coleman
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#25A Thread Of Remembrance
Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:15pm
I miss all you've mentioned, plus:
Maureen Stapleton
Barnard Hughes
Jack Lemmon
and I can't help myself (I know he's not Broadway), but
Jim Henson
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!
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