Ya'll remember them slambooks when you were (or are) in school. I thought I'd put one in here for the fun of it. Feel free to answer these questions...
1. Age: 29
2. Male or Female: Male
3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Ragtime
4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: A Raisin in the Sun
5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Dracula
6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Take Me Out
7. Favorite Musical movie: West Side Story
8. Worst Musical movie: Godspell
9. Favorite Cast Recording: The Last Five Years
10. Worst Cast Recording: Billy No Name
11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Jennifer Laura Thompson
12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Jared Emmick
13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Harry Carnahan
14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Mary Louise Parker
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Sherie Renee Scott
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
17. Favorite Playwrite: Christopher Durang
18. Favorite Broadway song: The Wizard and I
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Les Miserables, Tommy, Ragtime, Wicked, Chicago, Damn Yankees
20. Role that you would love to play: Pippin, Prior in Angels in America.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Age: 34 Sex: Male Favorite (Broadway) Musical: "Of Thee I Sing" Favorite Straight Play: "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "Fool For Love" Worst Broadway Musical: "Dracula" Worst Straight Play: "Prymate" Favorite Movie Musical: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" Worst Movie Musical: "Can't Stop The Music" Favorite Cast Recording: "Amour", "Sunset Blvd." (Patti Lupone) Worst Cast recording: "Gypsy" with Tyne Daly Favorite Musical Theatre Actress: Melissa Errico (duh) Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Brian Stokes Mitchell Favorite Theatre Actor: Christopher Plummer Favorite Theatre Actress: Cherry Jones Favorite Album by a Musical Theatre Star: "Blue Like That", Melissa Errico Favorite Composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim Favorite Playwright: Sam Shepard Favorite Broadway Song: "The Money Tree" (THE ACT) and "Children and Art" (SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE) Favorite Shows You've Seen More Than Once: "Amour", "Proof", "Passion", "Side Show" Role You Would Love To Play: Eddie ("Fool For Love), Georges Seurat ("Sunday in the Park With George")
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Les Miserables, Ragtime, Wicked, Chicago, Joseph & Amazing Techicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Avenue Q, Phantom Of The Opera, A Chorus Line
20. Role that you would love to play: Jean Valjean
The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.
1. Age: 20 2. Male or Female: Female 3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: RENT 4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: D/K 5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: D/K 6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: D/K 7. Favorite Musical movie: Jesus Christ Superstar 8. Worst Musical movie: D/K 9. Favorite Cast Recording: Wicked and The Last 5 Years 10. Worst Cast Recording: D/K 11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Idina Menzel 12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Norbert Leo Butz 13. Favorite Theatre Actor: D/K 14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Mary Louise Parker 15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: "Still I Can't Be Still" - Idina Menzel 16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Jonathan Larson, Jason Robert Brown, David Yazbek 17. Favorite Playwrite: D/K 18. Favorite Broadway song: La Vie Boheme 19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: RENT 20. Role that you would love to play: Elphaba (Wicked), Maureen (RENT)
1. Age: 16 2. Male or Female: female 3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: rent, les mis 4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: a raisin in the sun 5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: 6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: the glass menagerie 7. Favorite Musical movie: the sound of music/funny girl 8. Worst Musical movie: n/a 9. Favorite Cast Recording: avenue q 10. Worst Cast Recording: bye bye birdie 11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: sutton foster/bernedette peters 12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: harvey fierstein 13. Favorite Theatre Actor: n/a 14. Favorite Theatre Actress: mary louise parker 15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: "let yourself go" kristin chenoweth 16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: stephan sondhiem 17. Favorite Playwrite: neil simon 18. Favorite Broadway song: "what you own" rent 19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: les mis, tommy, beauty and the beast, fiddler on the roof 20. Role that you would love to play: eponine- les mis
1. Age: 18 2. Male or Female: Female 3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Wicked and Rent 4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Take Me Out 5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Swing! 6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Rhinoceros 7. Favorite Musical movie: Sound of Music and Little Mermaid 8. Worst Musical movie: A Chorus Line 9. Favorite Cast Recording: Wicked and Rent 10. Worst Cast Recording: Fame on 42nd Street 11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Idina Menzel 12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Adam Pascal 13. Favorite Theatre Actor: n/a 14. Favorite Theatre Actress: n/a 15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: n/a 16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Jonathan Larson and Boubil/Schoenberg 17. Favorite Playwrite: n/a 18. Favorite Broadway song: "Facade" Jekyll & Hyde 19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Rent, Wicked, Avenue Q, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon 20. Role that you would love to play: clarinet in: West Side Story, Wicked, Les Miz, Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, really any show but particularly those with an amazing score!
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Kristin Chenoweth, "Let Yourself Go"
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Sondheim
17. Favorite Playwright: I'm not sure....
18. Favorite Broadway song: I have a lot....I guess Astonishing, Gimme Gimme, There's a Fine Fine Line and Some Thing Are Meant to Be, but that was hard.
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: None
20. Role that you would love to play: Eponine in Les Miserables, Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jo in Little Women, Peppermint Patty in Snoopy, Maureen in Rent, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Sally in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Eliza in My Fair Lady.....I could go on forever.
12.Favorite musical theater actor: Brian d'Arcy James
13.Favorite theater actress: Glenn Close
14.Favorite theater actor: Alfred Molina
15.Favorite solo album by a Broadway star: "Way Back to Paradise" by Audra McDonald
16.Favorite composer/lyricist: Jason Robert Brown
17.Favorite playwright: Alfred Uhry
18.Favorite song: "Anthem"
19.Musicals you have seen more than once: CHESS, LES MISERABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MISS SAIGON, OKLAHOMA, RENT, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, SUNSET BOULEVARD, EVITA, BIG RIVER, ASPECTS OF LOVE, INTO THE WOODS, AIDA, THE LION KING, TITANIC, GUYS & DOLLS, MAMMA MIA, SHOW BOAT
20.Roles that you would love to play: Alex, Anatoly, Dominique, Jonathan, Enjolras, Raoul, Frederick, Gay, Bobby
21 male umm dotv,Annie, 42ndSt. Angels in America...Proof MAMMA MIA!!! Shake-a-Spear anything SHAKESPEAR Hedwig Seven Brides... Bare The Original Sound of Music Shoshana Bean Matt Cavenaugh Mary Louise Parker Neil Patrick Harris Simple Songs- Matt Bogart Strouse Kushnier Now When The Rain Falls-cut from Pimpernell 42nd Street-24 Times! Ren-footloose, anything in Miz, Cats...ensemble of 42nd Street...Elphaba too.
3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: West Side Story/The Fantasticks
4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?/The Glass Menagerie/The Crucible
5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Thou Shalt Not (This is the worst I've seen in NYC...but if you really wanna know about bad, there's this original musical I was in...PM me for the gory details heehee)
6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Witness for the Prosecution (as Ouiser once said, I can nap at home for free)
17. Favorite Playwrite: Albee, N. Simon, T. Williams
18. Favorite Broadway song: Try to Remember, Stars & the Moon, the title song from Carrie!
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: actually on Broadway? Noises Off, The Goat, Avenue Q
20. Role that you would love to play: John Proctor, Joe Pitt, Billy Bigelow, Don Baker (Butterflies are Free), Prince Dauntless the Drab, Hamlet, George, Martha, Anita, Eliza, Rose.
"I'll eat some breakfast then change the world."
"I hate you, and I hate your ass face!"
age:24 sex:male fav musical:kiss of the spider woman,the musical fav play:closer worst shows:bklyn,the producers,the lion king,the phantom of the opera and movin' out. worst play:reckless fav musical movie:chicago worst musical movie:the phantom of the opera,star. fav cast recording:rent,aida worst cast recording:the boy from oz,bklyn actress in musical:vanessa williams,brooke shields,krystal washington,jennifer hope wills,laura shoop. actor in musical:adam pascal,mandy patinkin. actor:thomas sadoski actress:mercedes ruehl,amanda plummer and rosie perez. album by a bway star:any by mandy patinkin composer:kander&ebb song: swing! -from wonderful town- shows seen more than once:aida,rent,wonderful town,dracula,bombay dreams,grease!,hello dolly!,fame,kiss of the spider woman,chicago,cabaret.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: NO OPINOPN
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Cy Coleman and Sondheim
17. Favorite Playwrite: Tom Stoppard... maybe...
18. Favorite Broadway song: ODe to the Attention Seekers, Steps of the Palace,Someday is for Suckers, Frogs, Ariadne
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Taboo, Into the Woods, Pippin
20. Role that you would love to play: Propetier- Assassins
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed