Best Replacement?

Who were the best,worst,and so-so replacements on broadway? Here`s my list:

BEST:

Cathy Rigby as The Cat in the Hat (Seussical)

Harvey Fierstein as Tevye (Fiddler)

Andrea Martin as Golde (Fiddler)

Jonathan Freeman as Roger (The Producers)

Jonathan Rayson as Frog (A Year With Frog and Toad)

Jonathan Rayson as Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors)

Reba Mcentire as Annie (Annie Get Your Gun)

Gary Beach as Rooster (Annie)

Richard Kind as Max (The Producers)

Roger Bart as Leo (The Producers)

George Hearn as Benjamin "Sweeney Todd" Barker (Sweeney Todd)

George Hearn as The Wizard (Wicked)

Roger Bart as Xanthias (The Frogs)

Neil Patrick Harris as The Emcee (Cabaret)

Tom Hewitt as Scar (The Lion King)

Christopher Siber as Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)

Terannce Mann as Frank'n Furter (Rocky Horror)

Rob Bartlett as Amos (Chicago)

Mike Starr as Murray (The Odd Couple)

Norbert Leo Butz as Roger (RENT)

Tony Roberts as Herr Schultz (Cabaret)

Amy Spanger (Urinetown)

Ana Gasteyer as Columbia (Rocky Horror)

Rob Bartlett as Herman (Sweet Charity)



SO-SO:

John Stamos as The Emcee (Cabaret)

Matt Caplan as Mark (RENT)

Rosie O'Donnell as Golde (Fiddler)

Liza Minnelli as Victoria Grant (Victor/Victoria)

Barry Williams as King Marchon (Victor/Victoria)

Rosie O'Donnell as The Cat in the Hat (Seussical)



WORST:

Raquel Welch as Victiria Grant (Victor/Victoria)

Whoopi Goldberg as Pseudolus/Prologus (A Funny Thing Happened...Forum)

more coming............

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Updated On: 6/18/06 at 03:42 PM

So? It doesn`t matter! Just get thru this one for 3 days like all the rest!


Who Cares?

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Leah Hocking in Hairspray and now Mama Mia. It is a reason to see it again.

Or it got lost because people have answered it 100 times in the last 3 months and don't want to list Reba McEntire for the 85th time.

If yuou truly give a rats behind what people think on this topic, SEARCH.

Bumping your own thread is just vile and self-indulgent.

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I thought Whoopi was very funny.

Phillyactor - ......what?

AND I did use the search to find this! lol. And no it didn`t get lost because people didn`t want to list these! It IS because of al the Tony buzz!

once again.....who cares....colleen_lee?

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BEST:

eileen atikins as sister alioycious [sp.?] in DOUBT

aaron lazar as fabrizio naccarelli in THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA


SO-SO:

will chase as radamace in AIDA

jeremy kushnier as roger in RENT


WORST:

jenna malone as sister james in DOUBT


..i'll keep thinking..

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Jonathan Pryce in DRS I'm not a huge fan of the show, but Brantley basically changed his mind about the production based on Pryce.

Updated On: 6/15/06 at 01:22 AM

For me, Karen Mason, Sunset Boulevard

I heard that Reba was an incredible Annie in Annie Get Your Gun

I also think that Shoshana Bean was the best Elphaba and Ben Vereen was the best Wizard

Updated On: 7/3/06 at 04:13 PM

Matt Caplan was So-So for me! Did anyone here see Cathy Rigby in Seussical? WOW! HILARIOUS Ad-libs and just....WOW! I loved how they changed her from a pool boy (since she`s a woman) to a Excersice instructer! She ran in all hyper going "Come on! Get up! Let`s excersice! COME ON GET UP!!!!!!!" And when she said to Horton during the song Biggest Blame Fool "It`s okay Hort! I understand! Sometimes I like dressing up in green tights and act like I`m talking to fairies!" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I loved Harvey Fierstein as Tevye, and prefered him to Alfred Molina. He brought such a warm, mensch-like quality to the part.

Back sometime in the '90s I saw Les Miserables and Andrea McArdle was Fantine. At first I wasn't sure it was the right casting, but she turned out to be fantastic. Her voice was just golden and had matured so beautifully without losing any of that natural magic. I was ecstatically surprised!

Most disappointing: Got tickets to the Anything Goes revival and learned that Leslie Uggams was playing Reno Sweeney. Yeah, she was more than fine. But I wanted LuPone, dammit!

HARVEY WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE HIM!

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