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.
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
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.
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
Actor: Aaron Lazar, Will Chase, Brian Stokes Mitchell , Ben Vereen
Actress: Susan Egan, Felicia Finley, Sherie Rene Scott
http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!)
I chose, and my world was shaken- So what? 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
"And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler
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)
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.
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
"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