Broadway Connections

#1

Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:08pm

My friends and I play this game all the time. You have to connect two shows by an actor, director, etc. The shows are: Hairspray and Oklahoma. After that, the next person picks two. Ready...set...GO!

#2

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:33pm

no one?

#3

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:38pm

This is easy, if this counts

Shoshana Bean was in the original cast of Hairspray

She is in Wicked at the Gershwin, where the latest Oklahoma revival was

Also Laurs Bell Bundy, same thing...

#4

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:39pm

ok, next one: Aida and Gypsy

#5

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:46pm

Sherie Rene Scott was in original AIDA

She is in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels w/ Joanna Gleason

Who was in original Into the Woods by Sondheim

Who wrote the lyrics for GYPSY

Updated On: 2/8/05 at 05:46 PM

#6

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:46pm

it's like the kevin beacon game... i play it to help me fall asleep

aida starred sherie rene, who was in the last five years by jason robert brown, who wrote songs for a new world which starred brooks ashmanskas, who was in the gypsy revival.

#7

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:48pm

20 seconds, hehe, good one...

#8

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:53pm

West Side Story and Sweeney Todd

#9

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:55pm

This is an easy one...

#10

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:56pm

Sondheim!

Okay, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Rent.

#11

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:56pm

Are you serious?

Sondheim and Sondheim!

haha

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#12

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:58pm

Oops, My Fair Lady beat me to it!

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"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being." --Phylicia Rashad

#13

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:58pm

It was a joke, hehe

#14

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:59pm

Again, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Rent.

#15

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 5:59pm

Adam was in Rent

Adam was in CHESS concert w/ Sutton

Sutton was someone in Millie...

#16

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:01pm

Taye Diggs was in the original cast of Rent
He was also in Lippa's Wild Party with Jen Cody
Jen Cody is married to Hunter Foster
Hunter Foster is brother to Sutton Foster
Sutton Foster was the original star of Thoroughly Modern Millie

#17

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:01pm

Ahhh...ya beat me to it. I didn't know we could use benefit concerts.

#18

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:02pm

Sorry, beat ya, that was a good one though, can relationships/marriages etc count???

#19

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:02pm

The Full Monty and Funny Girl

#20

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:03pm

Actually, I was thinking of something completely different.

Kristin Chenoweth was supposed to be Millie.
She worked with Idina Menzel who was in Rent.

#21

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:03pm

I mean, I guess Broadway Cocnerts count in Broadway Theatres...

#22

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:05pm

Jason Danieley was in The Full Monty

He was also in the Funny Girl Concert

I love the Actor's Fund

#23

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:07pm

Taboo and Floyd Collins...hmmmm

#24

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:07pm

I like this game! What's next?

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#25

re: Broadway Connections

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:09pm

What show is Floyd Collins?