Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:12pm
I'll start.
Cheyenne Jackson and Kate Baldwin in Finian's Rainbow.
Updated On: 1/12/17 at 12:12 PM
Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:18pm
Kelli O'Hara and Paolo Szot. Come to think of it, everything about that revival was "extraordinary."
Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:19pm
Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale in Bridges...
Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:21pm
Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr. in Pajama Game...
Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:22pm
Kelli O'Hara opposite Szot and Pasquale in South Pacific and Bridges were both what came to my mind as well!
For some reason, I'm also reminded of Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis in Phantom. I'm not sure if they qualify as "chemistry" but I remember the duo were just absolutely electric.
Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:26pm
I know I'm in the minority but I thought the chemistry between Christian Borle and Andrew Rannells in FALSETTOS was beautiful.
Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:53pm
I'm noticing a trend.
Posted: 1/12/17 at 12:57pm
adamgreer said: "I'm noticing a trend. "
That you are more likely to convey romantic chemistry if you have two consonants in your name?
Kelli, Harry, Rannells?
Posted: 1/12/17 at 1:38pm
It's true that O'Hara and many - arguably all - of her leading men have made magic together. Perhaps the most alchemical was with Josh Radnor in the Roundabout concert of SHE LOVES ME. As much as I liked last season's revival and enjoyed Levi and Benanti in it, I still wish it could have been Radnor and O'Hara.
Updated On: 1/12/17 at 01:38 PM
Posted: 1/12/17 at 2:43pm
Carmen Cusack and Paul Alexander Nolan in Bright Star.
Posted: 1/12/17 at 2:45pm
Cynthia Erivo and Heather Headley in The Color Purple
Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi in She Loves Me
Norbert Leo Butz and Kate Baldwin in Big Fish
Posted: 1/12/17 at 3:58pm
First thing that popped into my head: Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes in Bonnie and Clyde. Their voices are marvelous together.
I also agree with Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi in She Loves Me (I also thought Zachary Levi and Krista Rodriguez had great chemistry in First Date), and Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale in Bridges of Madison County.
Updated On: 1/12/17 at 03:58 PM
Posted: 1/12/17 at 4:05pm
Marin Mazzie and Daniel Dae Kim in The King and I. Amazing.
Posted: 1/12/17 at 5:08pm
Barry and Fran Weissler
Posted: 1/12/17 at 6:29pm
Only musicals mentioned so far, but there can be romantic chemistry in plays too, for example, Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in Private Lives
Posted: 1/12/17 at 6:44pm
Christian Borle and Laura Bell Bundy
Sutton Foster and Roger Bart
Posted: 1/12/17 at 7:15pm
Will Swenson and Gavin Creel in Hair.
Posted: 1/12/17 at 7:50pm
Joe Mantello and Megan Mullally
Posted: 1/13/17 at 1:00am
Kelli O'Hara and Stephen Pascuale in Bridges
Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe in The King and I
Posted: 1/13/17 at 1:10am
Ben Platt and Laura Dreyfuss in DEH
Jeremy Jordan and Laura Michelle Kelly in Finding Neverland
Posted: 1/13/17 at 2:54am
Call_me_jorge said: "Ben Platt and Laura Dreyfuss in DEH
Jeremy Jordan and Laura Michelle Kelly in Finding Neverland
"
Jeremy never played the role on Broadway though (oh snap)
Posted: 1/13/17 at 5:01pm
I love the subtle chemistry in a really good performance between Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady and between Anna and the King in The King and I. I also love the song Do You Love Me in Fiddler on the Roof when Tevya and Golda dare to consider the question of whether they love one another and discover that they do.
Updated On: 1/13/17 at 05:01 PM
Posted: 1/13/17 at 5:15pm
I think of Ciara Renee and Kyle Dean Massey in Pippin.
Posted: 1/13/17 at 5:19pm
I want to agree warmly with Marin Mazzie and Daniel Dae Kim in THE KING AND I. A sense of tremendous mutual admiration and amusement with just the right note of sexual tension. Two performers who create real, three-dimensional people so that their feelings seem genuine and unforced.
Posted: 1/13/17 at 5:25pm
broadwayguy91 said: "Call_me_jorge said: "Ben Platt and Laura Dreyfuss in DEH
Jeremy Jordan and Laura Michelle Kelly in Finding Neverland
"
Jeremy never played the role on Broadway though (oh snap)
"
Don't remind me
