You know the drill. This beginning to look like the Tonys...hmmmm...
~MlleDaae *Done!!! I promise...maybe...
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
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.
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
... 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
Favorite Actress: Heather Headley
Favorite Actor: Nathan Lane
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.
i cant believe I left out Sutton Foster,Jennifer Holiday and Bernadette Peters!! Updated On: 5/24/03 at 05:55 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
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
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
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).
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
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!
For current performers, I'll still stick with the team of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in The Producers. Pure magic!
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
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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