Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
#0Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 6:56pm
And this could be in the present or actors/actresses from yester-year!
Actor: Brian d'Arcy James
Actress: Dame Julie Andrews
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Updated On: 10/2/06 at 06:56 PM
#1re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 6:59pm
Actress: Lisa Brescia , Megan McGinnis, Susan Owen
Actor: Michael Shawn Lewis, Will Chase, John Tartaglia
#2re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:04pm
Actor: Norbert Leo Butz
Actress: Not sure.
And dj, I think you mean Brian d'Arcy James 
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#3re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:06pm
Actor: Brian d'Arcy James (I mean COME ON! He's amazing!)
Actress: No idea...
Who would play you in the movie? "Taye Diggs." --Brian d'Arcy James
#4re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:07pm
Gah, I blame it on the weed! 
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Updated On: 10/2/06 at 07:07 PM
#5re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:16pm
Actor: Norbert Leo Butz - the man just has some serious range.
Actress: Gwen Verdon
#6re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:23pm
Actress: Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott, Elaine Stritch
Actor: Larry Kert
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#7re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:30pm
Actress- Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone...
Actor- Raul Esparza
SondheimGeek: Is it slightly pathetic that you guys get to be Jedi bitches, and I'm Bitchy the Hutt?
LizzieCurry: No, you're more memorable
LizzieCurry: No, you're more memorable
#8re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:51pm
Actress- Audra McDonald, Victoria Clark, Kelli O'Hara, Rachel York, LaChanze
Actor- Bob Martin, Norbert Leo Butz, Michael Arden, Norm Lewis
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#10re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:05pm
Wow I didn't know Bernadette was a hermaphrodite.
Actor: Eh.. I don't really have one
Actress: Rachel York, Julia Murney
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
#11re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:09pm
Actor: George Hearn and Brian Stokes Mitchell
Actress: Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Donna Murphy, Liza and Marin Mazzie
- I have a few up and coming actresses such as Victoria Clark, Rachel York and Carolee who I also like. Other actors who aren't in the same rank as the others mentioned include Barrett Foa and Norm Lewis
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#12re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:12pm
Actress: Felicia Finley, Kelli O'Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, others
Actor: Norbert Leo Butz
CompletlyNakedStatue
Stand-by Joined: 5/14/06
#13re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:29pm
Actor: Terrence Mann, Ron Bohmer, Norm Lewis.
Actress: Marin Mazzie, Kelli O'Hara, Susan Egan.
#14re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:34pm
Actor: Drew Sarich, Hugh Panaro, Norbert Leo Butz, Gregory Jbara, Patrick Wilson, Manoel Felciano.
Actress: Sherie Rene Scott, Kristin Chenoweth, Isabel Keating, Joanna Gleason, Beth Leavel
Ensemble Boys: Andrew Asnes, Romain Fruge, Timothy Alex, Jason Gillman, Joe Cassidy, Greg Graham.
Ensemble Girls: Laura Marie Duncan, Rachelle Rak
"You can't stop someone who wants to be an artist. If they're going to do it, they're going to do it... Work as hard as you can on the things you can work on. Until it seems like there is no possible chance you're going to succeed, don't give up." ~ANDREW ASNES
avatar: me and jason gillman... in the pouring rain.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#15re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 9:09pm
Actress: Julia Murney. Hands down.
Actor: Probably Norbert
But I'm only basing this on people I have seen live. I wish I had gotten to see someone like Julie Andrews or Gwen Verdon live.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#16re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 9:16pm
Actress: Patti Lupone
Actor: Alan Rickman (he has been on the Broadway stage!)
-jess-
"I think every actor on the stage should have a shirt that says,'believe it or not-I'm doing my best.'" -Alan Rickman
#17re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:04pm
Actor: Aaron Lazar, Will Chase, Brian Stokes Mitchell , Ben Vereen
Actress: Susan Egan, Felicia Finley, Sherie Rene Scott
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
RainbowHigh2
Stand-by Joined: 9/30/06
#18re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:06pm
Actress: Patti Lupone, Barbara Streisand (though I'm too young to have seen her in anything), Liza Minelli (same thing, though I did see her on the street in Union Square chatting with her friends)
Actor: Raul Esparza
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#19re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:18pm
Hmmm. This is tough.
Actress: Tonya Pinkins (Can I also include Natasha Richardson?)
Actor: Marc Kudisch or Norm Lewis.
But there are too many others to name, like Julia Murney, Marcy Harriell, Chuck Cooper...alright, like most of the LENNON cast....Audra McDonald, Carolee Carmello, Mary Testa (Just about anyone that was in a LaChiusa show...he has the most amazing casts), Ramona Keller, LaChanze, Billy Porter.
Updated On: 10/2/06 at 10:18 PM
#20re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 10:31pm
Present-
Actress: Debbie Gravitte, Kristin Chenoweth, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie
Actor: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marc Kudisch, Brent Barrett, Norbert Leo Butz, Nathan Lane,
Yester Year-
Actress: Barbara Harris, Ethel Merman, Janis Paige, Pat Suzuki
Actor- Alfred Drake and John Rait
#21re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:07pm
Actresses-Marin Mazzie, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Victoria Clark, Donna Murphy, Donna McKechnie
Actor(s)-Brian Stokes Mitchell, John Rait, Norm Lewis
Honorable mentions go to Audra McDonald and Sutton Foster
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee
"It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza
#22re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:13pm
Actor: John Tartaglia
Actress: Angela Lansbury
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#23re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:19pm
Actor: Jonathan Pryce
Actress: Rachel York
jess20882
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/06
#24re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:42pm
Actor: Norbert Leo Butz, Anthony Rapp, Mark Kudisch, Nathan Lane
Actress: Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Bernadette Peters, Angela Lansbury
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