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#56

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

chewy 5000, you think Hugh Jackman is overrated? Just wondering, what is your opinion based on? Did you see The Boy From Oz either on Broadway or in Australia?

Or is this based on the "Tall Poppy Syndrome"? Because Mr. Jackman is one of the nicest people in show business, and a
great talent, IMO.
#57

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Can't stand: Patti Lupone (don't get me started), Adam Pascal, Sutton Foster (I keep liking her less and less as time goes by), Harvey Fierstein,

Like: Raul Esparza (adore), Bernadette Peters (a goddess), Leigh Ann Larkin, Amy Spanger
Give me a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and I'll conquer the world!
#58

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Can't stand: Victoria Clark. I think she's an untalented, condescending, MEAN woman.

Adore beyond all reason: Patti LuPone

Seriously. The not-so-inner crazed fanboy in me doesn't understand people who can't stand LuPone. I feel like they dislike her just to be contrarian or something. Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth I'm not saying she doesn't have her off moments/shows/performances what have you, but she's a force of nature and she gives me goosebumps. Every time.
#59

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Love: Harvey in Fiddler (he's polarizing and so was the opinion of that performance), Matthew Morrison (the only Link Larkin that I ever liked), and Laura Bell Bundy

Can't Stand: Sutton Foster, Hunter Foster, Patrick Wilson, Anthony Rapp, Matthew Broderick in The Producers (I found him dull), and Norbert Leo Butz

Updated On: 3/18/11 at 05:25 PM

#60

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Can't stand: Victoria Clark. I think she's an untalented, condescending, MEAN woman.

Surely you are talking about another Victoria Clark.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad
#62

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Victoria Clark an untalented, condescending MEAN woman, Joey? I'm with givesmevoice here. Surely you must be talking about another Victoria Clark or trolling?

I've done several shows with her, though I don't know her personally, and she is hands down one of the sweetest and most considerate performers I have ever worked with. I have never heard her catagorized as you have. I also can't see how the quality of her singing voice can possibly be in question, whatever you may think of her acting I happen to think she's an extraordinarily talented comedic actress and her dramatic acting ain't too shabby either.

I can't think of any performers that I can't stand. I'm not terribly fond of Nathan Lane when he plays Nathan Lane instead of the character he's supposed to be, but his talent is undeniable. Love Charlotte d'Amboise's quirkiness.

Updated On: 3/18/11 at 06:30 PM

#64

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Love: George Hearn, Jim Dale, Len Cariou (I miss you so much, please come back!), Dee Hoty, Meryl Streep, Absolutely love Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Mandy patinkin, Michael Cerveris, Nathan Lane, Audra, Kristen, and Lara Benanti.

Meh to HATE!: Alan Cumming, Douglas Hodge, Bebe Neuwirth, Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele.
#65

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Love: Sutton Foster (I thought everyone did?), Matt Cavenaugh, Bernadette Peters, Phoebe Strole, Adam Chanler-Berat, Christian Borle, Karen Olivo, Chip Zien, Susan Eagan

I was going to put John Gallagher Jr.... But really who doesn't love John Gallagher Jr.?

Hate: Lea Michele, Rosario Dawson, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Alice Ripley, Lauren Pritchard
#70

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Kate Baldwin. She's like human Ambien.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#72

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

Victoria Clark characterized as "mean" is one of the funnier things that has been posted on this site in recent weeks. What, did she give you constructive criticism that huwt oo during a master class?


I have been disappointed by the greats and dazzled by folks I have written off. I have my prejudices but really, its best to take things performance by performance. If you don't, you're just a VERY poor man's M*****l R****l.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali
#73

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

I love Betty Buckley, who has more than her share of folks who can't stand her. I have one friend who can't stand Barbara Cook - but is there anyone else on earth who doesn't love her (maybe one or two)?

There are many Broadway gods and goddesses that I'm not a huge fan of, but can't think of one I can't stand or can't say he/she hasn't done something I see value in.

There was a time I held George Hearn to be the affected version of Len Cariou, but I had a big change of heart when I saw him as Sweeney in concert with Lupone.

I've seen Lupone on occasion give bad performances, some disappointing ones, and many outstanding ones. I think those who can't stand her have probably only seen her at her worst. Throughout her early-mid career she was a very uneven performer, masking the fact that she is a marvelous actress and singer. BTW the one time I met her and had the chance to spend some time with her, she impressed me as the polar opposite of her diva image, very kind, genuine, generous and down to earth.

"Kate Baldwin. She's like human Ambien."

Is that praise or condemnation, AC? (lol)

There are countless musicals I can't stand that people LOVE but that's another story.
#74

Broadway Actors you can't stand that other people LOVE and you love and oth

I'm not a huge Audra McDonald fan. I think her voice is incredible and she has great stage presence, but I'm not sure I think she's a great actor. It's not that I can't stand her, but I do feel like I'm the only one who doesn't worship at her feet.

And my active dislike of Bernadette Peters is pretty obvious, I think.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

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