3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Kiss Me Kate, Ragtime, Les Miserables, Carousel, Oh Kay! and many others
4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: HENRY IV!!!!! (Congrats to NNHS and NSHS on their performance last night!) also, Victoria Regina.
5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: juzebox musicals, and musicals based on TV shows or movies.
6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Days to Come, i just don't get it.
7. Favorite Musical movie: West Side Story
8. Worst Musical movie: Hair
9. Favorite Cast Recording: Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat
10. Worst Cast Recording: don't know
11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Rachel York (duh)
12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Brian Stokes Mitchell, John Raitt
13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Laurence Olivier
14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Geraldine Paige
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Rachel York
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins
17. Favorite Playwrite: George Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Anton Chekov
18. Favorite Broadway song: There's no way I cna pick one, it depends on my mood. um.......I love Stormy Weather, Look For the Silver Lining, Melancholy Baby, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Ten Cents a dance. My favorite though would be between After the Ball, and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Les Miserables, Kiss Me Kate, Show Boat
20. Role that you would love to play: Lilli Vanessi in KMK, Fantine in LM, julie or Carrie in Carousel, and Magnolia in show Boat
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
Age: 24 Sex: female Favorite (Broadway) Musical: "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" Favorite Straight Play: - Worst Broadway Musical: Titanic Worst Straight Play: - Favorite Movie Musical: King and I Worst Movie Musical: Annie Favorite Cast Recording: Wild Party (off-Broadway) Worst Cast recording: Scarlet Pimpernel Favorite Musical Theatre Actress: Sutton Foster Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: John Lithgow, Brian D'arcy James Favorite Theatre Actor: Kevin Kline Favorite Theatre Actress: Julie Andrews Favorite Album by a Musical Theatre Star: - Favorite Composer/Lyricist: Stephen Schwartz Favorite Playwright: - Favorite Broadway Song: At the fountain (Sweet smell of success) Favorite Shows You've Seen More Than Once: - Role You Would Love To Play: Kristin (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Hey, It was FUN!
Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."
6)I recently read The Crucible, and didn't like it much
7)My Fair Lady and Chicago
Phantom of the Opera
9)Forbidden Broadway (all)
10)Jekyll and Hyde
11)Kristen Chenoweth
12)Brian Stokes Mitchell, Roger Bart
13)Brian O'Bryne
14)Phylicia Rashad
15)Audra Mcdonald
16)Sondheim, Yazbek, Porter, etc.
17)Tennesee Williams and Arthur Miller
1Dance Ten: Looks Three-A Chorus Line
19)None, but if I had the chance, Avenue Q and The Producers
20)Fiddler-Fiddler on the Roof
Pit (Violin)-Gypsy, The Producers, Candide, West Side Story, Chicago, Cabaret, Damn Yankees, Into The Woods, Kiss Me Kate, La Cage aux Folles, Les Miz, My Fair Lady, Nine (my favorite), Ragtime, Sunday...George, Sweet Charity and Urinetowm
Boy, what a list!
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
1. Age: 12 2. Male or Female: female 3. Favorite broadway (or any) musical: RENT 4. Favorite broadway (or any) play: n/a 5. Worst broadway (or any) musical: n/a 6. Worst broadway (or any) play: n/a 7. Favorite movie musical: Fiddler? (Hope to be RENT soon) 8. Worst movie musical: Annie 9. Favorite cast recording: RENT 10. Worst cast recording: Brooklyn 11. Favorite musical theater actor: Anthony Rapp 12. Favorite musical theater actress: Idina Menzel 13. Favorite theater actor: n/a 14. Favorite theater actress: n/a 15. Favorite solo album by a broadway star: Adam Pascal 16. Favorite composer/lyricist: Jonathan Larson 17. Favorite playwright: n/a 18. Favorite broadway song: One Song Glory, I'm Not That Girl 19. Broadway shows you've seen more than once: n/a 20. Role you would love to play Mimi in RENT, Elphaba in Wicked, Kate in Avenue Q
Age: 19 Male or Female: Female Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: toss up between WICKED and RENT Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Our Town Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Brooklyn Favorite Musical movie: Phantom of the Opera Favorite Cast Recording: WICKED and RENT Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Idina Menzel or Lea Salogna Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Michael Ball or Taye Diggs Favorite Theatre Actor: look above Favorite Theatre Actress: look above Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Idina Menzel or Michael Ball Favorite Broadway song: Defying Gravity Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Les Miserables, WICKED, RENT, 42nd Street Role that you would love to play: Elphaba or Eponine or Christine Daae
"There are times when were dirt broke, and hungry and freezing and I ask myself why the hell am I still living here?...And then they call!" ~ Mark Cohen RENT movie
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Kristin Chenowith
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Sondheim
17. Favorite Playwrite: Arthur Miller
18. Favorite Broadway song: One Day More
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Les Miserables, Mama Mia, Phantom, Rent, Music Man, Kiss Me Kate, 42nd Street, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King,
20. Role that you would love to play: just one? Eddie in A View from the Bridge
2. Male 3. Sweeney/Music Man/Ragtime 4. Angels in America 5. Cats 6. The Wild Duck (take that, Ibsin) 7. The Muisc Man/1776 8. A Chorus Line 9. Sweeney (OBC)/Ragtime(OBC)/Les Miserables (CSR)/Rent (OBC) 10. Grease (OBC) 11. Audra McDonald 12. Brian Stokes Mitchell 13. James Earl Jones 14. see 12 15. Bernadette Peters Live at Carnagie Hall: Sondheim etc. 16. Stephen Sondheim 17. Neil Simon 18. "Wheels of a Dream"/"A Little Priest"/"Finishing the Hat"/"The Song That Goes Like This"/"Do You Hear the People Sing?"/"What You Own" 19. The Music Man/Ragtime 20. Prof. Harold Hill/Sweeney/Mark Cohen
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey "The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Kristen Chenoweth
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Tim Rice and Steven Schwartz
17. Favorite Playwrite: Christopher Durang
18. Favorite Broadway song: The Wizard and I
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Wicked, Chicago
20. Role that you would love to play: Elphaba Wicked, Maria West Side Story, Ameneris Aida
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley's duet albums (I know... not a SOLO album... but still)
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: KANDER & EBB
17. Favorite Playwrite: -
18. Favorite Broadway song: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA or ALL THAT JAZZ
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: CATS, CHICAGO, AIDA, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, WICKED, HAIRSPRAY, LES MIS, MISS SAIGON, THE LION KING, RENT,
20. Role that you would love to play: Don Quixote in MAN OF LA MANCHA or The Phantom in POTO.
6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Glengarry Glen Ross (do not get the appeal at all)
7. Favorite Musical movie: The Sound of Music
8. Worst Musical movie: A Chorus Line
9. Favorite Cast Recording: Not nice making me choose. Evita's pretty amazing.
10. Worst Cast Recording: d/k
11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Sutton Foster, Rachel York, Michele Pawk, Carolee Carmello, and from yesteryear: Angela Lansbury, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett
12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: George Hearn, John Dossett
13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Liev Schreiber
14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Mary-Louise Parker
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: not my thing.
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Leonard Bernstein, Rogers & Hammerstein
17. Favorite Playwright: Craig Lucas, Tennessee Williams
18. Favorite Broadway song: Bring him Home - Les Mis (of course, you can ask me tomorrow and it may be a diff answer)
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Les Mis, Phantom, Millie, Ave Q, Wonderful Town, Chicago
20. Role that you would love to play: Evita - it would be incredibly tough but cool as hell. Of course, this assumes that I have some sort of talent which I don't have in real life.
"Some of us have it worse, you know, Dana. Some of us are dating lesbian men. Okay? C'mon."
4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Just too many, but right now A Scrap of Paper, The Bells, Angels in America, and Ten Little Indians (if it comes to broadway after the west end)
5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Oklahoma!, South Pacific, and more like that.
12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Raul Esparza, Euan Morton, Gary Beach, and many more
13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Liev Schreiber, Scott Sowers
14. Favorite Theatre Actress: don't have a favorite
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: hmmm let me think about that
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Boy George!!!!!! JRB, Jon Larson, Marx and Lopez: the musical genuises of the 21st century. 17. Favorite Playwright: hmm again way too many
18. Favorite Broadway song: Stranger in this World,Petrified, Why , and many many more
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: I am counting tours... Wicked, Aida, Movin Out
20. Role that you would love to play: okay here we go- PRODUCER for the remount of Taboo, Ragtime. Producer/Marketing/Stage Manager/even settling for a lacky for any new musical with a young composer still living (not sondheim) (WHY DO WE SETTLE FOR REVIVALS??? GRRR) But i would be happy (and i mean this) be a receptionist for any company associated with broadway or the arts...as long as i am somewhere near promoting the arts, i will be living my dream. I have the enough passion for theatre to spread to every single person in this world...and thats what i intend to do :) kisses
"Hold up your head. Never be afraid to shine. Viva la difference in my body and my mind. All out with loneliness Such a waste of time. Come in from the outside" ~ Taboo
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Anthony Rapp
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Jonathan Larson
17. Favorite Playwrite:
18. Favorite Broadway song: Defying Gravity, Out Tonight, La Vie Boheme, One Song Glory, I still Believe,
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once:RENT
20. Role that you would love to play: Mimi in RENT or Elphaba in Wicked
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: John Hill (okay, I just like to look at him)...really, it's probably either Raul Esparza or Michael Arden
13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Raul's done a straight play? okay, I'll go with him, too
14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Mary Louise Parker
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: well, not by a single star, but I love Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn; if really pressed, I'd probably say Barbara Cook's Mostly Sondheim
16. Favorite Composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim
17. Favorite Playwrite (isn't it playwright?): Tom Stoppard
18. Favorite Broadway song: tough one, but my current favorite audition song is "Mr. Choi and Madame G," from Elegies: A Song Cycle, so I'll go with that
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Sunday In the Park With George, Into the Woods, Hairspray, Jesus Christ Superstar, Falsettos, Assassins, bare: a pop opera (not Broadway, I know, but still...), Big River, Cabaret and Rent
20. Role that you would love to play: Marvin in Falsettos, the Emcee in Cabaret, Effie in Dreamgirls (yeah, that's gonna happen...)
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown
1. Age: 35 2. Male or Female: Female 3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: 1776, Assassins, Side Show, A Chorus Line 4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Fuddy Meers, Laramie Project 5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Cats 6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: ? 7. Favorite Musical movie: 1776 8. Worst Musical movie: Cats 9. Favorite Cast Recording: Baby, A New Brain 10. Worst Cast Recording: All the ones I have are pretty good... 11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Julie Dixon Jackson 12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Kevin Earley (as if that wasn't obvious ), Norm Lewis, & Christoper Sieber 13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Robert Sean Leonard 14. Favorite Theatre Actress: ? 15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: ? 16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Sondheim, Maltby/Shire 17. Favorite Playwright: David Lindsay-Abaire 18. Favorite Broadway song: I Chose Right 19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Avenue Q, Les Miserables, Hairspray, Wonderful Town 20. Role that you would love to play: N/A
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Wicked, Glass Menagerie, Annie, Caroline or Change, Gypsy, Angels in America and a bunch of Shakespeare 20. Role that you would love to play: I have stagefright but Rosalind from As You Like It
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.....
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash...
Tallulah Bankhead
12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Brian Stokes Mitchell
13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Willem Dafoe
14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Kate Valk
15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Lauren Kennedy
16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim
17. Favorite Playwright: Nicky Silver
18. Favorite Broadway song: Currently - "Say It Somehow," The Light In The Piazza, "And Eve Was Weak," Carrie the Musical
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Wicked, Kiss Me Kate, Good Vibrations (I know, but my friend was making her debut in it),
20. Role that you would love to play: Oh, you know - Mark, Seymour, Peter or Jason, etc. Lead roles even though I'm a comic actor - isn't that always how it goes?
"I am the sound of distant thunder, the color of flame."
CARRIE the Musical