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Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress

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#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

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AlmostFamous
#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

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
#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 re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress.

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rose_pearl
#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...


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Who would play you in the movie? "Taye Diggs." --Brian d'Arcy James

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#4re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:07pm

Gah, I blame it on the weed! re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress


"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

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Patronus
#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

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ahmelie
#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

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Sondheim Geek
#7re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 7:30pm

Actress- Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone...
Actor- Raul Esparza


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somethingwicked
#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.

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Elphaba3
#9re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 8:01pm

Bernadette

Yero
#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


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GYPSY1527
#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


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bwayondabrain
#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

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#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.

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Elphaba984
#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


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ashley0139
#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.


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anotherhundredpeople
#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

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dancingthrulife04
#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


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The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not...
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Updated On: 10/2/06 at 10:04 PM

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RainbowHigh2
#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
#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

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jewishboy
#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

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#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


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emo_geek
#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
#23re: Favorite B-Way Actor/Actress
Posted: 10/2/06 at 11:19pm

Actor: Jonathan Pryce

Actress: Rachel York

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#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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