Fav. actress in a musical — Page 3

Patti LuPone because she is the one who got me into broadway in the 1st place.
That Evita recording still sends chills down my spine after all these years.

Updated On: 6/20/06 at 08:13 PM

Chita Rivera- in anything she does:-- Kiss of Spider Woman, Chicago, Nine, the Rink, etc
Tonya Pinkins: Caroline or Change
Bernadetter Peters : Gypsy
Dixie Carter: Master Class

it's a tie between lachanze for color purple, lachanze for dessa rose, and the little girl from in my life.

I'll at least start on my list. I hope I can have time and remember to add more later.

Actresses I have seen live:

Ma-Anne Dionisio-Les Miserables
Rona Figueroa-Les Miserables
Lisa Capps-Les Miserables
Jennifer Paz-Miss Saigon

On recording:

Lea Salonga-Miss Saigon and Les Miserables
Ruthie Henshall-Miss Saigon and Les Miserables

Julie Andrews in Everything
Idina Menzel in Wicked/Aida/Rent/See What I Wanna See
Patti LuPone in Evita/Sweeney Todd

Bumping thread to add, on recording:

Kristin Cheoweth: "You're a Good Man, Charile Brown" and "The Music Man."

For shows that I've seen live:

Tonya Pinkins - Caroline, or Change
Veanne Cox - Caroline, or Change
Donna Murphy - Passion, King & I

For shows that I've seen on video/DVD/TV:

Joanna Gleason - Into the Woods
Victoria Clark - The Light in the Piazza

Idina Menzel...SWIWS
Julia Murney...wicked
Laura Benanti...Wedding Singer

~Idina Menzel in... everything she's done!
~Sherie Rene Scott in Aida
~Amy Spanger in... yeah... everything she's done :P (especially Kiss Me Kate and Wedding Singer)
~Kerry Butler in Little Shop of Horrors
~Eden Espinosa in BKLYN
~Laura Benanti in Wedding Singer
~Heather Headly in Aida
~Daphne Ruben Vega in RENT
~Lachanze in The Color Purple

And I really need to listen to more of the stuff Sutton's in, because I LOVE her voice..a LOT, but I just really dont know anything she's been in :) haha. I'm bad, I really do not have a very widespread knowledge of shows. I have a bad habit of getting obsessed with one or two and then kinda.. forgetting about all the other ones out there. haha

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Updated On: 6/24/06 at 05:26 PM

Audra McDonald in EVERYTHING she does. (Especially Marie Christine)
I have yet to see her live though. But there must be a reason she has 4 Tonys...

What I've seen...

Sutton Foster in Millie - It's fluff, but she gave her whole BEING to the role. Very rare.

Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change - Left me speechless. What a role, what a woman. What a horrible place to be in 8 times a week. Incredible, nodes and all.

Victoria Clark in Piazza. Truly one of the most beautifully specific, heartbreaking, funny, tragic, portrayals I have ever witnessed anywhere. Only to be topped by... Victoria Clark in Live from Lincoln Center's taping of Piazza. I don't know how, but it was even better than I remembered it.

I envy people like JohnBoy and Bennet... I only pray I get to see 1/4 of the amazing divaness that your eyes have had the priveledge to themselves on.

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Updated On: 6/27/06 at 04:23 AM

Victoria Clark- The Light in the Piazza.
Idina Menzel-Wicked.

Actress:
Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd
Tyne Daly in Gypsy (Could not stand her, until I was blown away by her in this)
Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Donna McKechnie in Sweet Charity
Sally Ann Triplett in Anything Goes
Rebecca Luker in The Music Man
Beth Leavel in The Drowsy Chaperone
Donna Murphy in Wonderful Town

Actor:
Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz (no show without him)
Craig Bierko in The Music Man (saw it with someone else and it did not fair as well)
Brian Stokes Mitchell in Kiss Me, Kate
Tim Curry in Me and My Girl
Nathan Lane in The Producers
Philip Quast in South Pacific
Patrick Wilson in The Full Monty