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

#26

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

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

Sutton Foster

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#27

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

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

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

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#28

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

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.

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#29

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

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.

#30

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

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

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

#31

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

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.

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#32

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

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

Maureen Moore

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#33

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

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

^Seriously?

#34

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

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

No one...

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#35

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

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

#36

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

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

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

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#37

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

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)

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#38

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

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

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

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#39

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

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

Amy Spanger.

#40

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

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.

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#41

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

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

Singing Ana Gasteyer

Acting Frank Langella

#42

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

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

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#43

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

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

Jesse Tyler Ferguson
David Hyde Pierce
Eden Espinosa
Lauren Molina

#44

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

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.

$$$$

#45

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

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

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

Judy Garland.

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#46

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

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.

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#47

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

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

Morgan Freeman,
Sidney Poitier.

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shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

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#48

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

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.

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#49

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

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

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

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#50

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

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

Stokes !