Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
#1Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:35pm
This may be a little morose, but what deceased B'Way stars would you like to bring back from the dead and what role would you DIE to see them in?
I would bring back Lee J. Cobb to see him play Willy Loman one last time. But I also think he would be terrific as Wilbur in Hairspray!
Updated On: 3/1/09 at 05:35 PM
#2re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:37pm
This is a sad thread!
I would like to see Jason Raize. I saw him as Simba in Lion King and he was awesome... I can't help but think he would be fierce in in the heights!
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#2re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:37pm
Ethel Merman as Gypsy
I would love to see Bob Fosse in Pal Joey
Not a star but Johnathan Larson so he can write more great shows
Updated On: 3/1/09 at 05:37 PM
#3re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:43pm
I miss Jerry Orbach. Just generally, not for anything specific. 
#4re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:43pm
Robert Goulet--Man in Chair in 'The Drowsy Chaperone'
Charles Nelson Reilly--Roger De Bris in 'The Producers'
and YES to Jonathan Larson!
More to come on this thread...
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#5re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:46pmI forgot Jerry Orbach I would love to revive him from the dead he was a great actor.
#6re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:51pmNot necessarily stars but Jerome Robbins and Jonathan Larson.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
vlegra
Stand-by Joined: 11/7/07
#7re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:51pmWill Rogers! Updated On: 3/1/09 at 05:51 PM
#8re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:51pm
All of these responses to my thread are already warming my heart. Please keep these creative yet inspiring posts coming. I just keep thinking of performers I would love to see in my favorite shows.
Yul Brynner as Mr. Darling in Mary Poppins. Maybe even The King or The Duke in Big River.
Another thing I'm dying to see is Larry Kert as Sonny in Xanadu. Maybe opposite Mary Martin?
#9re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 5:55pmI also want to see Phil Silvers reprise his role in 'Top Banana.'
#10re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:01pm
This is my last one for a while.
Zero Mostel as Edna in Hairspray.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#11re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:37pmAlfred Drake in anything he did -
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#12re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:38pm
Jerry Orbach
Ethel Merman
Eartha Kitt
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#13re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:39pmI was just thinking earlier how much of an incredible talent Madeline Kahn was, and how I wish she could have done more broadway
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#15re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:43pmThe Merm with no amplification.
Poster Emeritus
#16re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:52pm
Mary Martin
GREGORY HINES
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
#17re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 12:50amBernie Mac in Purlie, anyone?
#18re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 12:51amOH NO. Bernie Mac. It may be too soon to talk about that Broadway Legend. He could replace Titus as Sebastian in Mermaid as well.
#19re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 12:56am
JOHN RAITT, ANYBODY?!
Imagine him playing Javert...or King Triton!
#20re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 1:01am
I'd like to see Raitt in a Wildhorn piece. Maybe playing Percy in Pimpernel. Or one of the generals in Civil War.
BNN
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/05
#21re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 1:07am
My answer to this and any related question
to Broadway stars from the past will always
be Gwen Verdon.
Tick Tock
#22re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 1:13am
"Ethel Merman as Gypsy"
I'd rather see her as Rose.
I want to see Mrs. Fiske!
Seriously, there are so many. Actually, it probably would be fun to see Mrs. Fiske, but there's Kim Stanley, Laurette Taylor, Lunt and Fontanne, Pauline Lord, Alfred Drake, Gertrude Lawrence, Merman (though I did see her once), Martin, Gwen Verdon, Uta Hagen, Geraldine Page, Sophie Tucker, Ed Wynn, . . . so many.
#23re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 1:13am
Forget Verdon--
I want to see Buddy Hackett as The Baker in 'Into the Woods'
PattiLover
Stand-by Joined: 2/20/04
#24re: Broadway Stars You'd Like To Bring Back from the Dead
Posted: 3/2/09 at 1:19am
Judy Holliday
Anita Morris
Madeline Kahn
Virginia Vestoff
They never got the chance to finish their careers.
edited to add Laurette Taylor to see what all the fuss was about.
Updated On: 3/2/09 at 01:19 AM
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