20 Questions

20 Questions
Posted On:2/10/05 at 05:09:46 PM


1. Age: 45

2. Male or Female: male

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: SWEENEY TODD

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: ANGELS IN AMERICA

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: SUNSET BLVD; COPACABANA (closed in the road)

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA

7. Favorite Musical movie: none (Enjoy several but no faves)

8. Worst Musical movie: there are so many really REALLY bad ones...CAMELOT, PAINT YOUR WAGON, MAME, CHORUS LINE, ANNIE...

9. Favorite Cast Recordings: Virtually all the Sondheim shows; GRAND HOTEL, RAGTIME, CAROUSEL, MY FAIR LADY, GYPSY...

10. Worst Cast Recording: the original DREAMGIRLS (doesn't even sound like a show album) and Capitol's truncated FOLLIES

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Ethel Merman, Bernadette Peters,

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: hmmm I'll get back to you on that

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: none

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: ???

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: pass

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Lyricist: David Zippel.

17. Favorite Playwright: Albee, Williams, Miller & Kushner

18. Favorite Broadway song: "Lullaby of Broadway"

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: SWEENEY TODD (10 times); INTO THE WOODS (; EVITA (7); CABARET (5); CHORUS LINE (4)


20. Role that you would love to play: Audience member!

Few other facts:
- Theatre reviewer for 25 years now
- Collector of Original cast albums (3,467 in database)
- First Broadway show: THE KING AND I revival with Yul Brynner Nov 1, 1977 (day after the cast album recorded!)
- First OCR: THE SOUND OF MUSIC
- On radio did Broadcast premieres of 42ND STREET, NINE, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, CITY OF ANGELS, GRAND HOTEL, ASSASINS, THE GOODBYE GIRL and many more

1. Age: 24

2. Male or Female: male

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: kiss of the spider woman

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: closer

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: movin' out,the producers,the phantom of the opera,the lion king,les miz

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: reckless,art

7. Favorite Musical movie: chicago

8. Worst Musical movie: star

9. Favorite Cast Recordings: wonderful town(brooke shields),kiss of the spider woman(vanessa williams),wicked,aida,rent.

10. Worst Cast Recording:bklyn,the boy from oz,the life.

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: brooke shields,maria friedman

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: mandy patinkin,adam pascal
13. Favorite Theatre Actor: jason alexander

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: rosie perez,mercedes ruehl,jessica lange

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: pass

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Kander & Ebb 17.Favorite Playwright: tenesse williams

18. Favorite Broadway song: too many


19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: kiss of the spider woman,wonderful town,dracula,aida,grease!,hello dolly!,thorougly modern millie,rent,bombay dreams,fame,little shop of horrors


20. Role that you would love to play: too many

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