Famous Broadway Proformers that you missed in a role you wanted to see them in

[dg22894]

Famous Broadway Proformers that you missed in a role you wanted to see them in#1

Posted: 2/8/09 at 8:07pm

Bob Fosse-Pal Joey
Anthony Rapp-Charlie Brown
LaChanze-The Color Purple and Once on the Island
Kevin Chamberlian- Seussical
Ethel Merman-Gypsy
Johanna Gleason- ITW

[dg22894]

re: Famous Broadway Proformers that you missed in a role you wanted to see them in#2

Posted: 2/8/09 at 8:34pm

bump

[Felm_heart]

re: Famous Broadway Proformers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #2

Posted: 2/8/09 at 11:33pm

I bought a plane ticket to see Patti in Gypsy for next weekend... but obviously they moved the closing date up and I missed her. Cried for a week.

[broadwaygirl99]

re: Famous Broadway Proformers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #3

Posted: 2/8/09 at 11:37pm

Roger Bart- Snoopy in Charlie Brown
John Tartaglia- Avenue Q
Original Cast of Wicked
Original Cast of Spamalot

[Salene]

re: Famous Broadway Proformers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #4

Posted: 2/9/09 at 10:22am

Bebe Neuwirth as Velma. Got Nancy Hess instead. At least I got to see Ann Reinking ...

[Enjolras77]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #5

Posted: 2/9/09 at 10:29am

Alan Cumming in Cabaret.

This was back in January 1999. It was a very rainy Sunday and the show was already delayed an hour due to water leaking onto the stage at Studio 54. No one was allowed into the theatre yet, so everyone was stuffed like sardines into the foyer to avoid the rain. Then on top of that we were told shortly before the doors opened (one hour late) that Alan Cumming had gone home sick, so they were hastily getting Vance Avery into make-up...thus the show was delayed a little bit more.

Thankfully the show was still wonderful and by the end I had forgotten about the prior ordeal. However, I still wish I could have seen Cumming.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

Updated On: 2/9/09 at 10:29 AM

[Enjolras77]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #6

Posted: 2/9/09 at 10:29am

Double Post

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

Updated On: 2/9/09 at 10:29 AM

[mormonophobic]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #7

Posted: 2/9/09 at 12:43pm

Chita Rivera in Chicago
Elaine Stritch in Company

[mybigsplash]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #8

Posted: 2/9/09 at 1:57pm

Angela Lansbury in Sweeney.
Original Cabaret.
Original Wicked,
Ethel Mermon in Annie Get your gun.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo in Avenue Q.
Tim Curry in Spamalot,
Original Into the Woods,

Is that too many?

Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?" Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"

[butterflyblob]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #9

Posted: 2/9/09 at 2:10pm

Patti in Evita

[ColorTheHours048]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #10

Posted: 2/9/09 at 2:13pm

Kathleen Turner in Virginia Woolf
Mercedes Ruhl in The Goat (saw Sally Field)

[jordangirl]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #11

Posted: 2/9/09 at 2:17pm

What's a proformer?

Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!

[givesmevoice]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #12

Posted: 2/9/09 at 2:44pm

goodness, there are so many!

Ethel Merman in anything, but especially Anything Goes or Gypsy.
Angela Lansbury ins...anything she did, but definitely Mame, Gypsy or Sweeney.
Mary Martin as Peter Pan or Maria.
Jerry Orbach as El Gallo or in Promises, Promises.
the OBC of A Chorus Line.
anything Patti did before my time, especially some of her early work with The Acting Company, Evita, Anything Goes and Sunset Boulevard (which technically wasn't before my time, but it was in London and I was a wee thing)
Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change. this I'm actually legit upset I didn't go see.
Donna Murphy in Passion.
any original Sondheim, for that matter.
Victoria Clark in The Light in the Piazza.
Michael Jeter in Grand Hotel.
OBC AND Revival casts of Nine.
oh, and the original production of Cradle Will Rock.

I have a long wishlist. maybe I should've just said I wanted to see the Merm and end with that.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

Updated On: 2/9/09 at 02:44 PM

[blaxx]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #13

Posted: 2/9/09 at 3:02pm

What's a proformer?

A former pro, of course.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[givesmevoice]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #14

Posted: 2/9/09 at 3:04pm

so should this thread be merged with the "Where are they now?" thread? I wanted to see Jere Shea in Passion. he's a former pro, but where is he now?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[AbbyNormal13]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #15

Posted: 2/9/09 at 3:12pm

OBC of The Producers
OBC of Spamalot
Roger Bart in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Christopher Fitzgerald in Wicked

[Elke]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #16

Posted: 2/9/09 at 3:32pm

I second Roger Bart in YAGM, Charlie Brown

Also:
John Lloyd Young in Jersey Boys
Malcolm Gets in The Apple Tree
Raul Esparza in Company
Norbert Leo Butz in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Douglas Sills in The Scarlet Pimpernel
Howard McGillin in The Secret Garden

[WickedOne2]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #17

Posted: 2/9/09 at 4:00pm

Audra McDonald: Ragtime
Roger Bart: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Alan Cumming: Cabaret
Bebe Neuwirth: Chicago
Idina Menzel: Rent
Kristin Chenoweth: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Entire Cast of Lippa's The Wild Party
Patti Lupone: Evita

"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe

[fosca3]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #18

Posted: 2/11/09 at 3:33pm

Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet
Raul Esparza in Rocky Horror
Terrence Mann in Scarlet Pimpernel (just to see him sing 'Falcon in the Dive')
Mandy Patinkin in Sunday in the Park
Ian McKellen in King Lear

I'm sure there's more

You don't go to the dragon without a present - Mark Rylance

[nealb1]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #19

Posted: 2/11/09 at 3:49pm

Audra M in "Ragtime." My friend and I saw the first performance after the Tony Awards the year that she won, and the show didn't. She was out.

[jv92]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #20

Posted: 2/11/09 at 5:21pm

Can I add Jolson to the list? Is anyone here old enough to have seen him?
Updated On: 2/11/09 at 05:21 PM

[faithzilla]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #21

Posted: 2/11/09 at 5:25pm

"Norbert Leo Butz in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

I was THISCLOSE to seeing him, but sadly, he got ill and his understudy went on. The understudy was still great, but it's not the same, especially since it was a birthday present!

But I totally agree with Patti in Evita
Idina in Wicked (she's still my favorite...)
Joel Grey in anything, but especially Cabaret. Oh my gosh yes.
But my number one is Bernadette Peters in Gypsy!

[cliffarico]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #22

Posted: 2/11/09 at 5:42pm

Patty Duke in the both The Miracle Worker and The Isle of Children.

[Ftworthguy]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #23

Posted: 2/11/09 at 5:49pm

My very first trip to NYC happened a week after "Streetcar" closed with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin. I would have LOVED to have seen that!!!

[uncageg]

re: Famous Broadway Performers that you missed in a role you wanted to see #24

Posted: 2/11/09 at 5:54pm

Stritch: Company
Peters: Sunday in the Park
McDonald: 110 Degrees in the Shade
Holliday: Dreamgirls (She left the night before I saw it. I was crushed)
Pinkins: Merrily
Lane & Broderick: Producers (Had the chance and turned it down)

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