A Thread Of Remembrance

[Unknown User]

A Thread Of Remembrance#1

Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:48pm

This thread is for all of you who never will forget those Broadway stars that are no longer with us.

What you do is type in a name of someone you missed. My choice:

Ethel Merman.

[rockfenris2005]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#2

Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:50pm

Steve Barton. Phenomenal actor, singer, dancer "triple threat"

Who can explain it, who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, wise men never try -South Pacific

[Fenchurch]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#2

Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:50pm

Laurie Beechman
Madeleine Kahn

"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." -Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl

[keen on kean]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#3

Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:54pm

Alfred Drake

[CapnHook]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#4

Posted: 12/31/06 at 10:58pm

Mary Martin

Cyril Ritchard

Leonard Bernstein

Adolf Green

Betty Comden

Moose Charlap

Carolyn Leigh

J.M. Barrie

Charles Frohman

and the rest who brought PETER PAN to us.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[morosco]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#5

Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:06pm

the sublime Dorothy Loudon
the brilliant Michael Bennett

[Unknown User]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#6

Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:12pm

Let me add:

Gwen Verdon.

[Julian2]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#7

Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:20pm

Howard Asheman

I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!

[glimpseofstocking]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#8

Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:26pm

Gertrude Lawrence
And I second Betty Comden

There wouldn't be lights bright enough!

[little_sally]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#9

Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:31pm

She's not a performer but I still miss her...Wendy Wasserstein.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[galindagirl2]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#10

Posted: 1/1/07 at 12:00am

Okay, so not quite Broadway star, but close enough...

Gene Kelly

*sigh*

P.S. Please correct me if I'm unforgiveably wrong, and he ever was featured on Broadway...

[neddyfrank2]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#11

Posted: 1/1/07 at 12:43am

Fayard Nicholas (although he was never on Broadway)

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#12

Posted: 1/1/07 at 12:54am

About Gene Kelly:
http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=15285
I knew that he starred in the original Pal Joey and directed the original Flower Drum Song but the rest is interesting.

And in reference to the thread:
A shoutout to Comden and Green <3
also Michael Bennett

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

[keen on kean]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#13

Posted: 1/1/07 at 1:51pm

Wow - I didn't know Gene Kelly directed Flower Drum Song! That was my first Broadway show.

[ahmelie]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#14

Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:03pm

John Raitt
Ann Miller
August Wilson
Jerome Kern
Cole Porter

Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

Updated On: 1/1/07 at 06:03 PM

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#15

Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:07pm

gotsa give shout outs to the poeple behind the scenes

Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Richard Rodger
Oscar Hammerstein
Bob Fosee
Larry Hart

[Raviolisun]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#16

Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:10pm

Jerry Orbach.

Michael Bennett.

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

[sondhead]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#17

Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:42pm

Michael Bennett
Howard Ashman (I feel like people are oblivious to the genius he was.. quite possibly if he had lived longer he could have been one of the best book writers of our time)
Gregory Hines
Dorothy Loudon
Comden & Green
Leonard Bernstein
John Raitt (Augh... what a VOICE)

[YankeeGal#24]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#19

Posted: 1/1/07 at 6:51pm

Gwen Virdon
Bob Fosse
Gregory Hines

"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys

[C is for Company]

re: A Thread Of Remembrance#20

Posted: 1/1/07 at 7:34pm

Larry Kert in all his West Side Story glory and all the brilliant choreographers like Fosse, Robbins, Bennett, etc.

[Unknown User]

A Thread Of Remembrance#21

Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:19pm

bump

[JohnBoy2]

A Thread Of Remembrance#22

Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:29pm

My favorite choreographer, next to Michael Bennet, Onna White!

[Trekkie2]

A Thread Of Remembrance#23

Posted: 1/30/07 at 7:45pm

Jerry Orbach, Jonathan Larson, Fosse

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[singtopher]

A Thread Of Remembrance#24

Posted: 1/30/07 at 8:45pm

Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstien
Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Lowe
Agnes DeMille
Fred Ebb
Cy Coleman

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[mattonstage]

A Thread Of Remembrance#25

Posted: 1/30/07 at 9:15pm

I miss all you've mentioned, plus:
Maureen Stapleton
Barnard Hughes
Jack Lemmon

and I can't help myself (I know he's not Broadway), but
Jim Henson

I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!