If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book? — Page 5

re: "She's gone now, but dear, wonderful, hysterical, heartbreaking Madeline Kahn."

Exactly the actor I thought of when I read the question!

Raul Esparza, but I would want him to sing the phone book.

Celia Keenan-Bolger
Raul Esparza
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
A random Broadway Ensemble who sings everything chorus-y every few names.
Sherie Ree Scott and Norbert Leo Butz.
Bob Martin.
Sutton Foster as Janet Van De Graaf.
Together.

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Updated On: 4/9/07 at 07:22 PM

by the way, which phone book are we talking about?
manhattan or manchester, nh? also, the white pages or the yellow pages? the white pages seem like they'd fare best if billed as 'tragicomedy in fifty seven acts," but only the most ardent robert wilson fans might consider sitting through it for the entire month.
the yellow might yield a better musical if a contemporary composer could be found who's capable of expressing the ironic nature of accountancy, in counterpoint to the ironic bouyancy one might find in a meditation on 'irons and ironing supplies.'
'zippers and zipper repair' could lend itself to a compelling finale in lancaster, pennsylvania, but the last entry in the manhattan yellow pages is 'zoos,' and with only one listing this is problematic, particularly when considering the choreography. (also, the central park zoo pales in comparison to the pull-out-the-stops spectacular that is the bronx zoo; nor does it evoke the underfunded poignancy of brooklyn's prospect park.) one solution might be to add a program note urging the audience to watch the conductor count out the last few bars in silence, a la 'also sprach zarathustra,' but mentioning 'zoos' and 'zarathustra' in the same breath will probably come off as wholesale pretension....

Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury

Carol Channing
Roger Bart
(both for hilarity)
Hunter Foster
(cause he's pretty)
Nathan Lane
(to hear him make fun of things found in said phone book)

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Patti LuPone,

and the following if they were shirtless,
Gavin Creel,
Patrick Wilson,
Raul E.,
and again, Patti LuPone

HUNTER. FOSTER.

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Travis Cloer
Jesse L Martin

Bebe Neuwirth
Michele Pawk

Both have yummy speaking voices. And I'd listen to Pawk sing anything.