If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?

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If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:36pm

This is a serious question.

The expression is tossed about, but seriously for who would you shell out cash to watch their reading (or singing) of the phone book?

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#2

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:40pm

Victoria Clark

#3

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:40pm

Norbert Leo Butz. He seems like he'd make it interesting and hilarious.

And I would pay money to see that.

#4

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:42pm

No one.

You people are truly insane.

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#5

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:45pm

Zoe Caldwell
Vanessa Redgrave
Maggie Smith
James Earl Jones

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#6

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:45pm

If Margo posts, I'm not embarassed.

#7

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:46pm

Michael Cerveris

and yes Rath.. indeed I am at least:)

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#8

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:47pm

I don't know if this counts, but:

Christine Ebersole as Little Edie.

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#9

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:48pm

Patti LuPone
Martin Short
Bob Martin

#10

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:48pm

I am insane but that's a whole other story.

There would have to be some really specific people (I'd have to think about who) and it would have to be pretty cheap for me to pay for someone to read/sing me the phone book.

Oh, and is this person reading just to ME or an audience?
That could help sway my decision too.

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Updated On: 4/6/07 at 11:48 PM

#11

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:49pm

wonderfulwizard- YES! Totally agree!

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"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee

#12

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:51pm

Bernadette Peters

#13

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:53pm

Patti LuPone
Angela Lansbury
Barbra Streisand (unless it's 1000$ full priced, which I will not do)

Three ladies that I'd see in anything.

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#14

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:58pm

Christine Ebersole

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re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:59pm

Kathleen Turner
Patti LuPone

they would *make sure* the audience got their money's worth.

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re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:08am

I mean if it were conducted as a regular play. People on stage interpreting the phone book however they saw it fit (music, speech, dance, movement, whatever), with a full audience.

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"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

#17

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:11am

Anthony Warlow . . . no doubt!

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#18

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:11am

Patti would so belt the whole damn thing.

And then get up and do the chicken dance (or a shot) whenever someone has a Jewish last name.

It would be fab.

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#19

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:11am

Bernadette Peters

#20

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:16am

Norbert.

#21

re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:21am

Celia Keenan-Bolger. (I'm such a loser.) She's just so damn cute in everything she does! (I'd also bet that she's spell at least one of them in her Olive voice) XD

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If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:30am

I'll second Maggie Smith, Victoria Clark, and Michael Cerveris. The spin that man can put on the simple word "No" blows me away.

Updated On: 1/20/09 at 12:30 AM

#23

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:50am

Meryl Streep

#24

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:53am

I would love to see Lea Salonga sing the phone book.

~Steven

#25

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon

Posted: 4/7/07 at 1:25am

Julia Murney, without a doubt!