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#28

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:37pm

Great addition.

Anika absolutely has what it takes to be a legend, if she sticks to doing Broadway.
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#29

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/25/08 at 11:45pm

To be a "legend", you should be in legendary, memorable, leading (or even a supporting that's eligible for a Tony nomination) performances. Child actors with 10 lines in the whole production don't count, no matter how good the show is. Stokes and Audra in Ragtime? Legendary. Lea in Ragtime? No.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

Updated On: 2/25/08 at 11:45 PM

#33

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:26am

LaChanze, if she were to keep doing Broadway.
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#37

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:44am

Definitely Donna Murphy.
Audra McDonald, Christine Ebersole, Tonya Pinkins, Jane Krakowski, Anika Noni Rose, and Kristin Chenoweth all deserve the spot as well.
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#38

Posted: 2/26/08 at 12:47am

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 12:47 AM

#39

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/26/08 at 1:01am

I wonder if any Broadway producer is willing to hire Patinkin after THE WILD PARTY fiasco.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#40

Posted: 2/26/08 at 1:12am

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 01:12 AM

#42

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/26/08 at 7:03am

Urgh. The snob is starting to come out a bit, but I will not say anything.

I however will agree wholeheartly with the fact Audra, Kristen & Sutton are on their way (if not already there). Heck Sutton's rise to fame story alone make her legend worthy.

Funnily enough while there are definately legendary men out there past and present, the title is more... female orientated. It just doesn't go with a leading man's story.

Updated On: 2/26/08 at 07:03 AM

#44

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/26/08 at 10:32am

if he ever returns to Broadway: John Lloyd Young
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#45

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/26/08 at 11:56am

To become a "legend" the performer would have to become enough of a box-office name to draw crowds beyond the general theatre going public. It would have to be someone who has the stamina to do 8 shows a week and commit to a run for at least a year (and be prepared to run longer.)

Trouble is most of today's performers get lazy and undisciplined and skip out on performances or don't give their all every night. Too many of them are seeking fame in movies or TV, and not really interested in Broadway.

To be fair, without that TV/film exposure many of them do not achieve the marquee recognition beyond the theatre crowd.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

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#47

re: Broadway Legends of this Generation???? (future broadway legends)

Posted: 2/26/08 at 8:07pm

Wow....I certainly disagree with that!

I think that Stephanie J. Block, Cheyenne Jackson and Sutton Foster have the potential to become legends.

And I know that Peters, LuPone and to a less extent Buckley are already legends.

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