A Thread Of Remembrance

[Unknown User]

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]

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

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

[Fenchurch]

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

Laurie Beechman
Madeleine Kahn

[keen on kean]

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

Alfred Drake

[CapnHook]

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.

[morosco]

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

the sublime Dorothy Loudon
the brilliant Michael Bennett

[Unknown User]

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

Let me add:

Gwen Verdon.

[Julian2]

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

Howard Asheman

[glimpseofstocking]

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

Gertrude Lawrence
And I second Betty Comden

[little_sally]

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

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

[galindagirl2]

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]

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

Fayard Nicholas (although he was never on Broadway)

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

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

[keen on kean]

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]

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

John Raitt
Ann Miller
August Wilson
Jerome Kern
Cole Porter

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

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

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]

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

Jerry Orbach.

Michael Bennett.

[sondhead]

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]

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

Gwen Virdon
Bob Fosse
Gregory Hines

[C is for Company]

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]

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

bump

[JohnBoy2]

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

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

[Trekkie2]

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

Jerry Orbach, Jonathan Larson, Fosse

[singtopher]

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

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

[mattonstage]

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