Dead or alive your Broadway Bucket Show!

[Hello doll!]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 4:06pm

So....you get 1 chance to go back in time to any show of your choosing. What is the show and who is the star?

For me...it would be 'MAME' with Ms. Lansbury.

Well we all can dream can't we!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 4:11pm

Gypsy with The Merm

[tom2000a]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 4:36pm

I would love to see Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie. There has been so much written about her legendary performance and no tape (that I have seen).

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 4:47pm

Julie Andrews in My Fair Lady, hands down.
Runner up is the OBC of Follies. I didn't discover Sondheim till A Little Night Music 2 years later .

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 5:55pm

All of the above are good choices (and except Taylor and Merman, I saw them).

I'd pick GYPSY with Merman.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 5:59pm

Not technically Broadway, but Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 6:00pm

Wait, Gaveston, are you saying you saw Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie?

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 6:12pm

Randal Keith, as Jean Valjean, in the closing cast of Les Miserables on Broadway in the Spring of 2003.

[CalebMeyer]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 6:16pm

I'm such an Inge fanatic, so I think I'd probably have to go see the original production of Picnic.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 6:27pm

Original Broadway Cast of:
Rent
Wicked
Evita
The Phantom of the Opera
Gypsy
Anything Goes
Funny Girl
Into the Woods
Les Miserables
The Lion King
Thoroughly Modern Millie
West Side Story
42nd Street
Sunset Boulevard
Spring Awakening
The Sound of Music
The Producers
Oklahoma!
Dreamgirls

[The Josh]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 7:29pm

Past: Elaine Stritch in Company
Hypothetical: Neil Patrick Harris in Barnum

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 7:51pm

Ann Harada's Weekend Run as Gertrude in Seussical

[MCfan2]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 8:20pm

Andrews and Harrison in My Fair Lady.

[gleek4114]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 8:24pm

Opening Night of Carrie on May, 12th 1988.

[Demitri2]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 8:33pm

Agree with all the above. Never saw Merman in GYPSY but did see Ann Sothern as Rose about five years later. I've seen all the Broadway Roses since and she was still my all time favorite.

I did get to see Lansbury three times in MAME (twice on Broadway and once in stock at Westbury) and to this day her performances were not only consistent and mesmerizing but the best I've ever seen. And she was so glamorous in her day.

Another moment I'd like to relive again was seeing Barbara Harris on stage in THE APPLE TREE. She was another one of a kind performer.

My Mom had a friend in the theatre who did see Laurette Taylor in GLASS MENAGERIE (she just turned 90). She's the only person I've ever spoken to who actually saw her on stage. One thing she said she's never forgotten about her performance that stayed with her all these years was her delivery of the simple line, "Rise and shine" off stage. She said in those few words there was such a pain, sadness and weariness in her speech pattern that told you so much you needed to know about her character in such a short moment.

Shows I'm sorry I missed or would have loved to have seen:

ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
LADY IN THE DARK
CANDIDE (1956)
I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE
SHE LOVES ME (1963)
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER
110 IN THE SHADE (1963)
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
REDHEAD
NEW GIRL IN TOWN
HOUSE OF FLOWERS

And I'd love to go way back in time and see some of the Gershwin (OH KAY), Porter (LEAVE IT TO ME), Berlin (AS THOUSANDS CHEER), Kern (SALLY) and Rodgers and Hart (BABES IN ARMS) shows from the past.

[darquegk]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 8:49pm

Godspell- legendary Toronto all-star cast.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 8:52pm

Marlon Braando in Streetcar Named Desire.

[Tamerlano]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 8:58pm

Merm in Gypsy. Liza when she filled in on Chicago. Babs in both Wholesale and Funny Girl. Yul Brynner in King & I.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 9:06pm

The Toronto Godspell cast (great idea, darquegk) and Barbara Cook in Candide and She Loves Me

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 9:21pm

Madeline Kahn in "On The Twentieth Century", on a good night.

[willep]

Posted: 1/26/14 at 9:36pm

Hard to say. I guess I will go with Marlon Brando in Streetcar.

Non-Broadway, I would say Mark Rylance's Peter Pan at the RSC in '83.

[dtzumbrunnen]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 6:49am

Barbara Harris' performance in The Apple Tree, for sure.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 8:04am

Opening night of PROMISES, PROMISES: December 1, 1968.

[Patash]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 9:29am

It would be to go to 1935 and see Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria in Victoria Regina. I saw Ms. Hayes only once in the 1960s as Mrs. Candor in School for Scandal and I immediately knew what "radiant on stage" meant. The feeling was overwhelming and it remains perhaps as my most outstanding theatre memory.

>>>>>>>>>>

My favorite comment so far? "Madeline Kahn in "On The Twentieth Century", on a good night" with the last part of that sentence being the important part! Good one, Jay Lerner.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/27/14 at 10:11am

God this is hard... Probably Women On The Verge and Bonnie & Clyde