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[Sauja]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:10pm

Age: 27

Sex: Male

Favorite (Broadway) Musical: Into the Woods

Favorite Straight Play: Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?

Worst Broadway Musical: Hands down: Brooklyn

Worst Straight Play: Barefoot in the Park with Amanda Peet (gaah!)

Favorite Movie Musical: Hairspray seems too recent to actually be my favorite. Maybe Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in all its corny glory.

Worst Movie Musical: Rent--they just killed it

Favorite Cast Recording: Chorus Line OBC

Worst Cast recording: Not quite a cast recording, but: The Capeman (shudder)

Favorite Musical Theatre Actress: Patti sealed it with Gypsy

Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Raul Esparza

Favorite Theatre Actor: George Grizzard RIP

Favorite Theatre Actress: Cherry Jones

Favorite Album by a Musical Theatre Star: Tight race: "Sondheim, Etc." by Bernadette Peters or "Duets" by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley

Favorite Composer/Lyricist: Sondheim

Favorite Playwright: McDonagh or Albee

Favorite Broadway Song: "On the Steps of the Palace"

Favorite Shows You've Seen More Than Once: Cabaret, Fosse, Rent, Ragtime, Gypsy (at City Center)

Role You Would Love To Play: Younger Brother in Ragtime

[DivaBrigader]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:33pm

1. Age: 23
2. Male or Female: Female
3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: "Carousel"
4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: "The Crucible"
5. Worst Broadway (or other) musical: "Xanadu," "Cats," "Legally Blonde"
6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: I don't think I've seen one that I hated
7. Favorite musical movie: "The Sound of Music"
8. Worst musical movie: Though I have avoided it like the plague, I understand that "Man of La Mancha" is legendary for all the wrong reasons
9. Favorite cast recording: 1994 revival of "Carousel," OBC "West Side Story," OBC "The Secret Garden," OBC "My Fair Lady"
10. Worst cast recording: I'm sure there are some terrible ones out there but I only listen to the ones I like
11. Favorite musical theatre actress: Andrea McArdle, Sutton Foster, Linda Eder, Julie Andrews
12. Favorite musical theatre actor: Cheyenne Jackson, Brian Stokes Mitchell
13. Favorite theatre actor: There isn't one specifically
14. Favorite theatre actress: Edie Falco
15. Favorite solo album by a Broadway star: Linda Eder - "Broadway, My Way"
16. Favorite composer/lyricist: Rodgers and Hammerstein
17. Favorite playwright: Shakespeare
18. Favorite Broadway song: Today I'll go with "If I Loved You"...tomorrow would be a different answer (heck, it would probably be a different answer in 5 minutes!)
19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: "Beauty and the Beast," "Les Miserables," "Avenue Q," "The Drowsy Chaperone," "Rent"
20. Role that you would love to play: Eponine, "Les Mis"

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:48pm

1. Age: 21

2. Male or Female: Male

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Carousel

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

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Spring Awakening, Bombay Dreams

7. Favorite Musical movie: The Wizard of Oz

8. Worst Musical movie: Man of La Mancha

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Floyd Collins

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Audra McDonald

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Jennifer Carpenter

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Bernadette, Sondheim Etc.

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Adam Guettel

17. Favorite Playwrite: Paul Rudnick

18. Favorite Broadway song: Come Rain or Come Shine

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: The Light in the Piazza, Caroline or Change, 110 in the Shade

20. Role that you would love to play: Effie White

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 2:21pm

1. Age: 19

2. Male or Female: Male

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: My top 10- West Side Story, Ragtime, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Cabaret, Sunday in the Park..., The Light in the Piazza, Assassins, Parade.

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Angels in America, Doubt

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: SpamAlot (worst that I've seen)

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Don't know

7. Favorite Musical movie: West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Wizard of Oz, Chicago

8. Worst Musical movie: Phantom of the Opera

9. Favorite Cast Recording: West Side Story OBC, Ragtime OBC, Assassins OBC, Light in the Piazza OBC, [title of show], Floyd Collins, Sweeney Todd OBC, Dear World OBC, Gypsy (OBC, London, or '03 Revival), Sunday in the Park OBC, Parade OBC, A New Brain. How could I choose just one?

10. Worst Cast Recording: Can't decide.

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Audra McDonald, Angela Lansbury

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Brian Stokes Mitchell

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Christopher Plummer

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Mary Louise Parker, Cherry Jones

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Any Audra McDonald album (esp. How Glory Goes and Build a Bridge)

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Flaherty and Ahrens, Lerner and Loewe, Jule Styne, Adam Guettel.

17. Favorite Playwrite: Tony Kushner

18. Favorite Broadway song: Maria, Rose's Turn, I Could Have Danced All Night, A Little Priest, I Have Dreamed.

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Never seen the same show on Broadway twice

20. Role that you would love to play: Emcee in "Cabaret", Tony in "West Side Story", Booth, Guiteau, Hinckley, or Balladeer in "Assassins", Fabrizio in "The Light in the Piazza", Leaf Coneybear in "Spelling Bee", Tobias in "Sweeney Todd", George in "Sunday in the Park...", Leo Frank in "Parade", Mother's Younger Brother and Tateh in "Ragtime", Bobby in "Company", Mark in "Rent", Gordon in "A New Brain", Floyd in "Floyd Collins", Guido in "Nine", Bloom, Liebkind, or Debris in "The Producers", Bobby in "Urinetown". Like I could pick just ONE!

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 02:21 PM

[Pascal/Menzel/Bundy]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 10:02pm

1. Age:...

2. Male or Female: female

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Rent

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play:Echo Boom

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Cats

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Look Homeward Angel

7. Favorite Musical movie: Rent

8. Worst Musical movie: Across the Universe

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Rent

10. Worst Cast Recording: That I Own? Grease Revival

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Idina Menzel

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Adam Pascal

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: ...

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Tiffany Gray

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: ...

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Jonathan Larson

17. Favorite Playwrite: Addae Moon

18. Favorite Broadway song: Currently? Finale B.

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Just Rent

20. Role that you would love to play: Maureen(Rent), Sally(Cabaret), Holly(TWS), Elphaba(even though that is totally cliche)

[balletandbroadway]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 10:31pm

1. Age: Yeah, about that...

2. Male or Female: Feale

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Spring Awakening, The Last 5 Years, Songs for a New World, Evita, and West Side Story

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Take Me Out

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Cats... *shudders*

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Crimes of the Heart

7. Favorite Musical movie: West Side Story

8. Worst Musical movie: Rent

9. Favorite Cast Recording: The Last 5 Years or Movin' Out

10. Worst Cast Recording: Spring Awakening... It really should've been done live. It probably would've been a million times better.

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Patti Lupone

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Norbert Leo Butz

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Don't really have one

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Don't have one

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Sherie Renee Scott

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Jason Robert Brown

17. Favorite Playwrite: Shakespeare or Williams

18. Favorite Broadway song: "I'm Not Afraid of Anything" from Songs for a New World or "The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last 5 Years or "Love to Me" from The Light in the Piazza

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Evita, Rent, Wicked, Pajama Game, Company, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray

20. Role that you would love to play: Cathy in The Last 5 Years

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:10pm

1. Age: 22

2. Male or Female: Female

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Sweeney Todd

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: A Streetcar Named Desire

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: That I've Seen? I kind of disliked RENT.

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: I dont know

7. Favorite Musical movie: The Sound of Music

8. Worst Musical movie: Godspell

9. Favorite Cast Recording: 2005 Sweeney Todd

10. Worst Cast Recording: Brooklyn

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Bernadette Peters

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Michael Cerveris

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Boyd Gaines

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Angela Lansbury

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: DogEared by Cerveris

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim

17. Favorite Playwrite: Tennessee Williams

18. Favorite Broadway song: It always changes. Right now, Children Will Listen

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Sweeney Todd, LoveMusik, Into The Woods, Wicked

20. Role that you would love to play: Mrs. Lovett or Lucy in Sweeney Todd. Dot in Sunday In the Park With George.

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 11:10 PM

[americanboy99]

Posted: 11/18/07 at 12:12pm

1. Age: 22

2. Male or Female: Male

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: The Light in the Piazza

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Noises Off

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Cirque Dreams

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Anatomy of Gray

7. Favorite Musical movie: Chicago/ Cabaret/ Dreamgirls

8. Worst Musical movie: RENT

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Grey Gardens

10. Worst Cast Recording: Spamalot (only about two listenable songs)

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Christine Ebersole

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Raul Esparza

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Brian Dennehy

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Mary Louise Parker

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Sherie Renee Scott

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim

17. Favorite Playwrite: Christopher Durang

18. Favorite Broadway song: No One is Alone

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Les Miserables, Mamma Mia, Hairspray, Oklahoma!

20. Role that you would love to play: Mama Rose is GYPSY (Hey, it could work!), Oscar in SWEET CHARITY, Jean Valijean in LES MIZ, among many others

EDIT: Bobby in COMPANY... How could I forget?

Updated On: 11/18/07 at 12:12 PM

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 11/18/07 at 12:20pm

1. Age: 15

2. Male or Female: Male

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Grey Gardens

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

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Mary Poppins

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Deuce

7. Favorite Musical movie: Funny Girl

8. Worst Musical movie: The Producers (2005)

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Sweet Charity (2005) or Grey Gardens (Broadway)

10. Worst Cast Recording: Grease (2007 Revival)

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: so many! Stephanie J Block or Laura Benanti or Erin Davie, haha

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: dont have one

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: dont have one

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Alison Pill

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Laura Bell Bundy, "Longing For a Place Already Gone"

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: mm, probably Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman (from what they've done so far)

17. Favorite Playwright: Hard to say, but I thought Joan Didion did a fantastic job adapting "The Year of Magical Thinking"

18. Favorite Broadway song: mmm...tough. "What You Want" from Legally Blonde is the current one

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: 42nd Street (revival), Fiddler on the Roof (2004 revival), STOMP, The Wedding Singer, Grey Gardens, Mauritius

20. Role that you would love to play: Roger in RENT, Bobby in COMPANY, Jimmy in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, or Jamie in THE LAST FIVE YEARS

[LuckyCharm]

Posted: 11/18/07 at 1:16pm

1. Age: 18

2. Male or Female: Female

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Jersey Boys/ Spring Awakening (I can't choose)

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: The Drawer Boy?

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Chicago

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Haven't seen many straight plays, mostly musicals

7. Favorite Musical movie: Dreamgirls

8. Worst Musical movie: Rent

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Spring Awakening

10. Worst Cast Recording: Chicago

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Sherie Renee Scott

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: John Gallagher Jr./Jonathan Groff

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: I can't remember his name.

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Mary Louise Parker

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Can't think of any

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Scott Alan, Jason Robert Brown

17. Favorite Playwrite: ??? I'm not sure.

18. Favorite Broadway song: Touch Me/ I Can Do Better

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: None I've only seen the shows I've seen once!

20. Role that you would love to play: Thea/Wendla in Spring Awakening or I dunno...

[worrell4077]

Posted: 11/18/07 at 2:05pm

1. Age: 19

2. Male or Female: Male

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Jersey Boys and Spring Awakening

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: The Odd Couple

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Chicago, Cats, and Seussical

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Souvenior

7. Favorite Musical movie: The Producers

8. Worst Musical movie: Rent

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening, and Bat Boy

10. Worst Cast Recording: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Sutton Foster

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: John Lloyd Young

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Dule Hill

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Jessica Stone

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Michael Longoria

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim, Mel Brooks and Tom Meehan, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater

17. Favorite Playwrite: Marshall Brickmann and Rick Elice, Tom Meehan and Mel Brooks.

18. Favorite Broadway song: Together Again For The First Time

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening, The Producers, All Shook Up, La Cage Aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, SpamAlot, The Boy From Oz, Wicked, Avenue Q.

20. Role that you would love to play: Bob Gaudio or Tommy Devito or Nick Massi in Jersey Boys, Moritz in Spring Awakening, Sweeney Todd or Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Frederick, Kemp, or I-Gor in Young Frankenstein, Leo in The Producers, and Lancelot in SpamAlot.

[AnnaLouise1986]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 11:48am

1. Age: 21

2. Male or Female: Female

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: RENT, Sweeney Todd, Avenue Q

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: Journey's End

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: I don't have one

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: Again, don't have one

7. Favorite Musical movie: Chicago

8. Worst Musical movie: RENT

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Avenue Q

10. Worst Cast Recording: Titanic

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Patti LuPone

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Michael Cerveris

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Hugh Dancy, Boyd Gaines

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Don't really know

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: Kristin Chenoweth, Let Yourself Go

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: Jonathan Larson, RENT

17. Favorite Playwrite: RC Sheriff

18. Favorite Broadway song: It's so difficult. I love everything from The Producers, I listen to my staples regularly... that's like asking me my favorite piece of chocolate. Though if I had to pick, I'd probably go with "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd or something like that.

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Nothing yet.

20. Role that you would love to play: Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney. Believe me, I couldn't, but I'd love to. Or Kate Monster.

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 11/20/07 at 12:11pm

1. Age: twentysomething

2. Male or Female: Female

3. Favorite Broadway (or other) musical: Grey Gardens

4. Favorite Broadway (or other) straight play: History Boys

5. Worst Broadway (or other) Musical: Feeling the slings and arrows-either Cats or-(ducking)-Spring Awakening

6. Worst Broadway straight (or other) play: the revival of the Crucible with Liam Neeson (he was good) and Laura Linney (not so good onstage)
7. Favorite Musical movie: Sound of Music or any of the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, really

8. Worst Musical movie: either Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (I hate that show anyway) or Godspell

9. Favorite Cast Recording: Grey Gardens (2007 Broadway Cast Recording)

10. Worst Cast Recording: Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard (nails going down a blackboard is the best way to describe her voice), or the revival of Grease recording, with the exception of Jenny Powers' numbers

11. Favorite Musical Theatre actress: Christine Ebersole

12. Favorite Musical Theatre Actor: Raul Esparza, John Barrowman, Michael Cerveris

13. Favorite Theatre Actor: Boyd Gaines, Jefferson Mays

14. Favorite Theatre Actress: Judi Dench, Lynn Redgrave, Alison Pill

15. Favorite Solo Album by a Broadway star: In Your Dreams, Christine Ebersole (with Billy Stritch)

16. Favorite composer/Lyricist: either Stephen Sondheim or Scott Frankel/Michael Korie

17. Favorite Playwright: Tennessee Williams, Sheridan, Conor McPherson, O'Neill

18. Favorite Broadway song: "Around the World"

19. Broadway shows you have seen more than once: Grey Gardens, Les Mis, Phantom of the Opera, national tour of Evita (2 times, many years apart, different locations), the Drowsy Chaperone, The Lion King, Cabaret, Chicago, Jekyll and Hyde, the Secret Garden

20. Role that you would love to play: Edith/Edie Beale in Grey Gardens, Louise in Gypsy, Lily in the Secret Garden, the Chaperone in the Drowsy Chaperone