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#50re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:47pm
Michael Benjamin Washington (Mamma Mia) was in the Special Broadway Benefit Concert of "Funny Girl" with Idina Menzel who was Elphaba in "Wicked."
or (if you count off Broadway)
Barrett Foa (Mamma Mia) was Jesus in the off-Broadway production of "Godspell" with Shoshana Bean who is Elphaba in "Wicked."
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Updated On: 2/8/05 at 07:47 PM
gherbert
Leading Actor Joined: 11/1/03
#52re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:53pm
Here's a good one:
The original production of Lady Be Good! and . . . . Follies.
GO!
(And that's Stephen Sondheim's Follies, not the Ziegfeld Follies)
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#54re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:02pm
Lady Be Good!...George Gershwin...Crazy for You...Harry Groener....SIPWG....Sondheim....Follies!
I'm so proud of myself now.
Deet: Shira, I Love You!
#55re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:03pm
gherbert...let me know if this counts
Guy Bolton wrote the book to "Lady, Be Good"
He also wrote the book for "Anything Goes" which starred Patti LuPone who also starred in "Company"
Stephen Sondhein wrote the music and lyrics to "Company" as well as the lyrics to "Follies."
:wipes forehead:
next..."Beauty and the Beast" and "The Light in the Piazza"
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Updated On: 2/8/05 at 08:03 PM
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#57re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:10pm
Beauty and the Beast...Brooke Tansley....Hairspray...Matthew Morisson...Light In The Piazza
Oklahoma to Little Women
Deet: Shira, I Love You!
Updated On: 2/8/05 at 08:10 PM
#58re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:14pm
Mark Kudish played Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.
Mark also played Jackie in The Wild Party, written by Micheal John LaChuissa
LaChuissa wrote Light in the Piazza
...OOPS
My Bad...Guitell wrote it...Okay again...
Mark played Jackie in The Wild Party written by Lachuissa.
Audra McDonald sang songs from LaChuissa on her Way Back to Paradise album, which also had songs from Guettel who wrote Light in the Piazza.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Updated On: 2/8/05 at 08:14 PM
#59re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:15pmShuler Hensley (Oklahoma) was also in "Les Miserables" as was Sutton Foster who is Jo in "Little Women."
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
#60re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:16pmCarol Channing to Bernadette Peters
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#61re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:17pm
Justice...it has to be shows not people.
next..."Girl Crazy" and "Guys and Dolls"
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#62re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:21pm
"Mark Kudish played Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.
Mark also played Jackie in The Wild Party, written by Micheal John LaChuissa
LaChuissa wrote Light in the Piazza"
Actually Adam Guettel wrote Piazza.
#63re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 8:25pm
When did the rules change? On page two people were linking actors...
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#65re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/8/05 at 10:28pm
Okay, even if this wasn't the original rules, I'm proud this was the first one I could do so I'm going to do it anyway.
Carol Channing starred in Hello Dolly! as did Ethel Merman who starred in Gypsy as did Bernadette Peters.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
allamarane
Stand-by Joined: 12/15/04
#66re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/9/05 at 7:42pm
Okay, Starmites to Wind in the Willows...
Gwen Stewart of Starmites was in Rent with Anthony Rapp,
who was in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown with Roger Bart,
who was in The Producers with Nathan Lane,
who played Toad in Wind in the Willows.
"I know what the sunlight can be"
pinktheatre07
Swing Joined: 2/9/05
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#68re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/9/05 at 8:03pmI forget his name, but some guy was the lead in the Ragtime tour, who's in The Lion King, Heather H. was in TLK, who was in Aida, with Idina Menzel, who's standby was Shoshana Bean, who was in Godspell with Barret Foa, who is Rod in Avenue Q! *whew*
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#69re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:07am
Or...
Ahrens and Flaherty wrote the score to Ragtime
They also wrote the score to Seussical
Ann Harada was in Seussical
She's also in Avenue Q
gherbert
Leading Actor Joined: 11/1/03
#70re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/10/05 at 8:30am
FOAnatic,
CLOSE . . .
But no cigar.
Patti LuPone never starred in Company, she just narrated a concert.
And Stephen Sondheim wrote both music AND lyrics for Follies.
But VERY VERY close.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#71re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/10/05 at 1:50pm
OR.. Natalie Venetia Belcon from AVENUE Q was in the first national tour of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, written by Ahrens & Flaherty who wrote RAGTIME.
Another Secret Garden/Producers link: Roger Bart played Dickon in the first national tour of Secret Garden, then Carmen Ghia in Producers.
Here's a new one: Connect Diane Keaton to Christopher Walken using BROADWAY credits only!
Updated On: 2/10/05 at 01:50 PM
allamarane
Stand-by Joined: 12/15/04
#72re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/10/05 at 2:24pm
Christopher Walken to Diane Keaton (using only Broadway credits, because Jon is evil!):
Christopher Walken did Enemies with Barbara Cook,
who did She Loves Me with Jack Cassidy,
who did Fade Out-Fade In with Virginia Allen,
who did Camelot with Steve Curry,
who was in the original cast of Hair with Diane Keaton.
How about Damn Yankees to Fiddler on the Roof?
"I know what the sunlight can be"
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#73re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:10pm
Victor Garber (applegate in damn yankees) was in assassins with Terrence Mann,
Terrence Mann was in the Scarlet Pimpernel with Philip Hoffman who is in Fiddler.
#74re: Broadway Connections
Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:07pm
Does "Assassins" count? Doesn't it have to be strictly Broadway connections...and that Assassins was off-Broadway. Just wondering.
...if so the next two are "Sunset Boulevard" and "Sly Fox."
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Updated On: 2/10/05 at 05:07 PM
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