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If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#25If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 1:51amSutton Foster
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Fenchurch
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#26If 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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#27If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 2:01amAny 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
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#28If 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.
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#29If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 2:26amBrian d'Arcy James. God I just love his voice. Not just singing, speaking too.
Miss.Vanessi
Stand-by Joined: 1/1/07
#30If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 2:49amChristine 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#31If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 3:44amMaureen Moore
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#32If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 4:03am^Seriously?
#33If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 4:05amNo one...
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rabymon10
Stand-by Joined: 10/30/06
#34If 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
#35If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 4:11amI'd rather cast Nathan Lane in the title role in Lestat.
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#36If 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)
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#37If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 7:29amOk, everyone knows who I'm going to say! Christine Ebersole!!!!!
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"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.
#38If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 7:35amAmy Spanger.
istillbelieve24601
Featured Actor Joined: 4/3/07
#39If 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.
Cosette: Roses are red.
Marius: Violets are blue.
Eponine: You're so in love!
Marius: And so not with you.
sciguy
Stand-by Joined: 12/2/04
#40If 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
#41If 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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#42If 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
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#43If 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.
$$$$
#44If 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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#45If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 10:42amSome 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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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#46If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
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
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
#47If 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.
-Benjamin
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#48If 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
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#49If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:57pmStokes !
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