Favorite Actor and Actress

[MlleDaae]

Favorite Actor and Actress#0

Posted: 5/24/03 at 1:28pm

You know the drill. This beginning to look like the Tonys...hmmmm...

~MlleDaae *Done!!! I promise...maybe...*

"You are young. Life has been kind to you ...You will learn."

[ShineOn]

...#1

Posted: 5/24/03 at 1:34pm

Emily Skinner and Gavin Creel.


Runners-up: Hunter Foster, Marc Kudisch, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Norm Lewis, Bebe Neuwirth, Alice Ripley, Sutton Foster, Chita Rivera, and Jane Krakowski.

"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin

[MlleDaae]

...#2

Posted: 5/24/03 at 1:37pm

As far as actors and actresses...I don't know. *lol* Norbert Leo Butz is a very good voice peformer. If that even made sense... I've heard good things about Kerry Butler.

~MlleDaae *Done! YaY...*

"You are young. Life has been kind to you ...You will learn."

[TheaterBaby]

....#3

Posted: 5/24/03 at 3:44pm

Acting wise: Linda Lavin & Gavin Creel

Singing wise: Bernadette Peters/Sutton Foster & Hunter Foster

"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~

[Songsstresss]

...#4

Posted: 5/24/03 at 3:45pm

I would go anywhere and pay anything to see Audra McDonald perform. She's just amazing. Close second would definitly be Bernadette. Others are Brian Stokes Michell, Martin Short (just saw him in the Producers. He was absolutely WONDERFUL!), and I'd really love to see Brian d'Arcy James in something

[broadwayguy2]

favs#5

Posted: 5/24/03 at 3:49pm

male -- joe machota, gavin creel, barrett foa, matt bogart

female -- jessica grove, kerry butler, alice ripley, sutton foster, diana kaarina

[Deannaizme]

Norbert Leo Butz#6

Posted: 5/24/03 at 4:27pm

... was the Emcee on the first national tour of Cabaret. He was fantastic. Great voice, plenty evil enough, and very funny too.

Favorite actors & actresses (to stay on topic):
Yul Brynner -- could there ever be another king?
Bernadette Peters
Tyne Daley
Chita Rivera
Nathan Lane

There are LOTs of others, too.

~D

[MlleDaae]

He was?#7

Posted: 5/24/03 at 4:43pm

Wow! I thinkI need to get out there and look his other works up! Thank for telling!

~MlleDaae

"You are young. Life has been kind to you ...You will learn."

[Alvin and My Sheepdog Rex]

Heather Headley & Nathan Lane#8

Posted: 5/24/03 at 5:05pm

Favorite Actress: Heather Headley
Favorite Actor: Nathan Lane

My perfect day would begin at on the beach in Hana, Maui and end at a Broadway Musical.

[BillyLawlor]

This is a Hard One!#9

Posted: 5/24/03 at 5:34pm

If I absolutely had to narrow it down to my absolute FAVORITE:

Actress: Sutton Foster
Actor: Gavin Creel

Actress Runners Up: Jessica Grove, Nadine Isenegger, Christine Ebersole, Rachel York, Amy Spanger.
Actor Runners up: Anthony Rapp, Hunter Foster, Matthew Morrison, Matt Lashey, Brent Barrett, Brian Stokes Mitchell.

[Amneris]

My Favs#10

Posted: 5/24/03 at 5:54pm

Jenn Colella duh lol... , Kristin Chenoweth, Marin Mazzie,Karen Mason,Louise Pitre,Amy Spanger

For Men... the only one who really does it for me is BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL my god I praise that I breathe the same air he does hehe..

[Amneris]

oh and ...#11

Posted: 5/24/03 at 5:55pm

i cant believe I left out Sutton Foster,Jennifer Holiday and Bernadette Peters!! Updated On: 5/24/03 at 05:55 PM

[CJR]

Well...#12

Posted: 5/24/03 at 6:00pm

I can't pick just one male and one female...

Roxane Carrasco
Tracy Shayne
Vicki Frederick
Michele Pawk
Donna Lynne Champlin
Chita Rivera
Ann Reinking
Roz Ryan
Megan Mullally

Brent Barrett
John Dossett
Marc Calamia
Shawn Emamjomeh
Gary Kilmer
Billy Zane
Taye Diggs
Brian Carmack

and on a none broadway note, I quite like Denzel Washington as well

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[King Stevos]

hmm#13

Posted: 5/24/03 at 6:12pm

SUTTON maybe? just look at the pic!

Male: I loved watching BSM in KMK

"IF I TRY THERE MAY BE A CHANCE / WE COULD LOVE WITH OUR EYES CLOSED/ WITH OUR EYES CLOSED WE COULD CHANGE THE WORLD!"- Stephen Dwight

[broadwayguy2]

jessica#14

Posted: 5/24/03 at 7:48pm

I am telling you all. Someone needs to give Jessica a starring role. The girl is phenominal.

[ShineOn]

Jessica Grove?#15

Posted: 5/24/03 at 8:21pm

I personally am partial to Catherine Brunnell. I've seen her as Millie a few times and she is fabulous! That girl needs to get her butt out of her understudy status and into a leading role of her own!

I feel your understudy pain, Catherine (looks at the little title underneath her user name sorrowfully).

"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin

[CourtneyM]

my favorite#16

Posted: 5/24/03 at 8:28pm

actor-max von essen
actress-jenn colella

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art-Oscar Wilde

[CJR]

.#17

Posted: 5/24/03 at 9:21pm

Oh my god, I'm such a loser...

Add Bianca Marroquin, Caroline O'Connor, Michael Kubala and Eric Jordan Young to my list

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

[Unknown User]

my favorites#18

Posted: 5/24/03 at 9:39pm

Chita Rivera
Alice Ripley
Ruthie Henshall
Patti LuPone
Simone

Anthony Warlow
Philip Quast

that's who i can think of off the top of me head!

[CaTheatreGirl]

Favorite Actors#19

Posted: 5/25/03 at 2:41am

For current performers, I'll still stick with the team of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in The Producers. Pure magic!

[flaemmchen]

my favorites#20

Posted: 5/25/03 at 4:17am

Actresses: Victoria Clark (for her amazing vocal ability, versatility, and fearlessness), Kerry O'Malley (for the ability to belt the end of "Maybe They're Magic," and the ability to cry for a whole half an hour in Dublin Carol), and Linda Mugleston (for being the most capable understudy I know and for being the most deserving actress to have a starring role on Broadway) are the top three. I have many other favorites.

Actors: Michael Berresse (for being so dynamic on-stage and so smart) and Charlie Pollock (for his ability to step into Hunter Foster's shoes and do an amazing job, and for not smarting too much because he was shafted onto the tour when they brought in Tom Cavanagh) are the top two. Just like with the actresses, I have many other favorites.

"Peace! The charm's wound up." --Macbeth

[IssaMe]

New criteria - favorites based on being NICE...#21

Posted: 5/25/03 at 10:13am

Laura Benanti, Jarrod Emick, Philip Quast, Jason Danieley, Sebastian Arcelus, Ann Hampton Callaway, Brent Barrett, Carol Burnett, Will Chase, Stokes, TSMrW, Ruth Williamson, John Barrowman, Rock Hudson (he DID do stage musicals...but wait, he's dead...still the single nicest actor EVER worked with, when sober - the "sober" part applies to both of us though).

The list is already too long and it is way too short - most people in the business are really, really nice (but not you, Miss Bacall). Merman wasn't much fun (ugh!) --- but Tyne sure was. And Bernadette is a totally wonderful person.

[bongoboy]

Mine#22

Posted: 5/25/03 at 10:42am

Actress Broadway...Mariann Mayberry

[JakeB]

mine..#23

Posted: 5/25/03 at 10:52am

Rating highly:

Joanna Riding.
Gary Wilmot.

[Lorelai]

here's mine#24

Posted: 5/25/03 at 3:51pm

i just mixed the singer and non-singers together....

male - gavin creel, norbert leo butz (l5y), hunter foster, nathan lane, matthew broderick...

female - sutton foster, jennifer laura thompson, megan mullaly, ann reinking, marcia mitzman, jessica comeau, christine ebersole (loved her at the carlyle), sherie rene scott

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