Laurie Beechman in CATS Betty Buckley in SUNSET BLVD Linda Lavin in GYPSY Gina Gershon in CABARET Dorothy Loudon in SWEENEY TODD
Those are the first ones that come to mind.
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
VANESSA WILLIAMS-KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN BROOKE SHIELDS AND JENNIFER HOPE WILLS-WONDERFUL TOWN TAREA CAMPBELL AND SAYCON SEGBLOCH-AIDA MEGAN HILTY-WICKED,BEFORE SHE TOOK OVER
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Betty Buckley-SUNSET BLVD. Elaine Paige-SUNSET BLVD. Robert Westenberg-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE Carolee Carmello-CITY OF ANGELS Melissa Errico-LES MISERABLES Harvey Fierstein-FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
James Clow as Bobby in COMPANY. I still think it was just a rumour that Boyd Gaines was in it at all.I tried 3 times to see him over a 2 month period.Thank God that Clow was so good.
Oh! That reminds me WonderBoy, definitely Molly Ringwald and Neil Patrick Harris in Cabaret! That was excellent... wish I could have seen Raul though...
I hold a degree in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. It is useless. Now I'm funny for money. Oh, and I sing.
Alan Tudyk(SpamAlot),Brad Oscar(The Producers), Hunter Foster(The Producers), Richard Kind(The Producers), Alan Ruck(The Producers), Wayne Brady(Chicago), Joey Fatone(LSOH), Robert Evan(LSOH), Jonathan Freeman(The Producers),and Robert Goulet(La Cage Aux Folles). ________________________________________________________________ "You really shouldn't mumble, because I can't understand a word you're saying." -Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Jeremy Kushnier - Roger Krystal Washington - Mimi Maggie Benjamin - Maureen Kendra Kassebaum (not really a replacement but a swing who played the part a couple times i saw it) - Maureen
I agree with Notabb...and have to definitely include on my list not only Larry Kert for Dean Jones in Company...but Clow for Gaines in the Roundabout revival of Company.
Having seen so many Bobbys through the years around the world from Dean Jones onward, I'd put Clow on the top of the list (with Barrowman and Kert a close second - despite my personal affection for both of them).
Clow captured the youthful confusion and ambiguity of Bobby better than any of the others I have seen - and his final exit up the stairs with a wistful yet relieved one-last-look backwards at "the friends" below he was leaving behind... in one brief moment....totally defines the resolution for Bobby. With a look like that, there was no need to rewrite, rethink, and revise the part (as was done in London and subsequently).