Help Write the BROADWAYWORLD.COM QUIZ: THE GREAT LADIES OF BROADWAY

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 1:01pm

Hello Folks:
Thanks to all who have sent comments and taken the new quiz about Angela Lansbury. I plan to make the next few quizzes a series about great woman of Broadway and you can help. Next up for the quiz treatment is Julie Andrews, but who would you like to see after that? Chita Rivera? Barbara Cook? Bernadette Peters? I'm thinking of focusing on the legends but that certainly doesn't rule out someone younger like Kristen or Sutton. So please post your "great lady" suggestions here on the thread.

Secondly, occasionally board members send me suggestions for quiz questions and they are often terrific. So, if you have a suggestion for a great Broadway lady AND you think of a related, fun quiz question (in a multiple-choice format), please send the question to me in a PM. I'll use it in the quiz if possible.

OK, start thinking!

All the best,
Chris



BROADWAYWORLD.COM QUIZ

Updated On: 4/20/07 at 01:01 PM

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 1:58pm

Ethel Merman
Elaine Stritch
Barbara Cook
Mary Martin
Gwen Verdon
Chita Rivera
Mary Louise Wilson

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 2:13pm

Ethel Merman
Elaine Stritch
Barbara Cook
Mary Martin
Gwen Verdon
Chita Rivera
Mary Louise Wilson

Mary Louise Wilson is a terrific performer, but does not belong in the same categoru as the other ladies. Perhaps Lupone or Peters???

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 2:38pm

I realize that Mary Louise Wilson is not in the same category as the others mentioned, but she has spent a lifetime of performing in cabaret, Broadway, and Off Broadway and finally deserves a Tony for her performance in GREY GARDENS. I just wanted to give her recognition for her life's work.

I would be happy to add Bernadette Peters, Patti Lupone, and Tyne Daly.

[Elphie3]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 3:09pm

GWEN VERDON! Please!

Loretta Young as well

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 3:16pm

Possible List:
Ethel Merman
Mary Martin
Gwen Verdon
Carol Channing
Elaine Stritch
Chita Rivera
Bernadette Peters
Patti LuPone
Melba Moore (made Broadway history 3 times, so come on!)
Christine Ebersole (if anything, based on Grey Gardens)
Audra McDonald
Donna Murphy
Tonya Pinkins
Liza Minnelli
Dorothy Loudon
Judy Kaye
Ann Reiking
Bebe Neuwirth

Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster are legends in the making!

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 4/20/07 at 7:47pm

OK, this will keep me busy for a few years! GREAT suggestions! Thank you so much. Remember, if you think of a good question--or if you know any interesting trivia about any of these performers that might make a good question--send it my way via PM.

[onceadancer2]

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:11pm

Lynn Fontanne
Ina Claire
Ruth Gordon
Maude Adams
Ethel barrymore
Marilyn Miller
Claire Eames
Katharine Cornell
Vivienne Segal
Evelyn Herbert
Adele Astaire
Helen Hayes
Lotte Lenya
Judith Anderson
Ethel Waters
Gertrude Lawrence
Beatrice Lillie
Fanny Brice
Lillian Gish
Grace George
Alice Brady
Julia Sanderson
Frances Starr
Jeanne Eagles
Laurette Taylor
Pauline Lord
Peggy Wood
Jane Cowl
Eva Le Gallienne
Florence Reed
Lenore Ulric
Edna Best
Mary Boland
Elisabeth Bergner
Tallulah Bankhead
Shirley Booth
Jessica Tandy
Judy Holliday
Barbara Bel Geddes
Julie Harris
Uta Hagen
Josephine Hull
Geraldine Page
Margaret Leighton
Carol Channing
Maureen Stapleton
Rosemary Harris

Updated On: 4/21/07 at 02:11 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/21/07 at 2:21pm

Look who's back!!

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 4/21/07 at 7:49pm

Yes, and with a wonderful list (that will only take a few years to cover ). Thanks, Miriam.