If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?- Page 2

[millie_dillmount]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#25

Posted: 4/7/07 at 1:51am

Sutton Foster

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Fenchurch]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#26

Posted: 4/7/07 at 1:59am

Derek Jacobi
Patrick Stewart
Brian Blessed
Ok, fine. The entire cast of I, Claudius

"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." -Keen on Kean
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl

[Raviolisun]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#27

Posted: 4/7/07 at 2:01am

Any of the people on my "Favorite Performers" list. But I would rather just see them sit there than read the phone book.

One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

[sweetestsiren]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#28

Posted: 4/7/07 at 2:21am

Raúl Esparza. And I'd listen to Brian Stokes Mitchell sing the phone book.

And he's not a stage actor, but just the same: James Spader.

[gumbo2]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#29

Posted: 4/7/07 at 2:26am

Brian d'Arcy James. God I just love his voice. Not just singing, speaking too.

[Miss.Vanessi]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#30

Posted: 4/7/07 at 2:49am

Christine Ebersole. I see her making it completely hilarious. If they were still alive, I could also see Myrna Loy and William Powell do an awesome interpretation of the phone book. Hell, I'd pay more than full price for that.

It's like writing "Norma Shearer for the win!" in a Joan Crawford biography.

[Julian2]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#31

Posted: 4/7/07 at 3:44am

Maureen Moore

I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!

[neddyfrank2]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#32

Posted: 4/7/07 at 4:03am

^Seriously?

[lesmisforever]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#33

Posted: 4/7/07 at 4:05am

No one...

"I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"

[rabymon10]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#34

Posted: 4/7/07 at 4:10am

Where i come from, there actually are people who will pay full price tickets to watch no one in particular just sit there and read out of a phone book. It's called postdramatic theatre. Believe it or not, I've seen people completely entranced and fascinated by this.

If I was to do so, I would pay to see Meryl Streep reading out of the phone book. No idea why, but the woman fascinates me.
Updated On: 4/7/07 at 04:10 AM

[B3TA07]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#35

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

I'd rather cast Nathan Lane in the title role in Lestat.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[orangeskittles]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#36

Posted: 4/7/07 at 5:00am

Raúl Esparza. And I'd listen to Brian Stokes Mitchell sing the phone book.
Oooo, that makes 2 of us. (Although, I still stand by wanting Stokes to read romance novels on tape)

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[bwaygal1]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#37

Posted: 4/7/07 at 7:29am

Ok, everyone knows who I'm going to say! Christine Ebersole!!!!!

"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world." "Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.

[TWSFan4Ever]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#38

Posted: 4/7/07 at 7:35am

Amy Spanger.

[istillbelieve24601]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#39

Posted: 4/7/07 at 9:56am

I wouldn't pay to see an actor doing it in their own way.

I would love to see someone read the phonebook in character. I'd love to see Tevye read the phonebook...

There are also a few actors I would pay to see read the phonebook then just stare at their faces the entire time... Aaron Lazar comes to mind here.

Cosette: Roses are red. Marius: Violets are blue. Eponine: You're so in love! Marius: And so not with you.

[sciguy]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#40

Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:01am

Singing Ana Gasteyer

Acting Frank Langella

[Piercemn]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#41

Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:04am

Vanessa Redgrave is a goddess.
Sir Ian McKellan. He's doing King Lear this year in Minneapolis
Barbara Cook. She'd sing it delightfully.
Lynn Redgrave. I've been a fan since I saw Georgy Girl.
Patrick Stewart. What a voice! He was brilliant at the Guthrie in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Judi Dench. After her performance in Iris, she can do anything.

and the late, but never forgotten:

Richard Burton
Jessica Tandy
Sylvia Sidney
Cary Grant

NYC Visitor and Broadway Fan

[Stop The Clock2]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#42

Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:06am

Jesse Tyler Ferguson
David Hyde Pierce
Eden Espinosa
Lauren Molina

[Yankeefan007]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#43

Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:07am

My first producing venture is going to be Idina Menzel and Hugh Jackman Read the Phone Book.

Two of the most bankable stars, with huge fan bases.

$$$$

[baddadnpa]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#44

Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:10am

No one living. They'd have to be dead and back for a command performance.

Judy Garland.

The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.

[Rathnait62]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#45

Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:42am

Some smart producer is now going to mount an evening of revolving celebs from this thread reading the phone book, saving tons of money/royalties in the process.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[vmlinnie]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#46

Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:45am

Morgan Freeman,
Sidney Poitier.

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

[B3TA07]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#47

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:44pm

Rathnait62 - Would you not have to pay the people whose information is read/sung? Maybe to be even more cost-effective they could have each performer one letter to make maybe 3 a night.

And I'd love to see some duets of anonymous classifieds.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[Pippin]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#48

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:49pm

Ian Mckellen
Joan Allen
Annette Bening
Anjelica Huston
Richard Griffiths
Bobby McFerrin

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[Testing1232]

If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon#49

Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:57pm

Stokes !