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

[G_Schlozinski2]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:44pm

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

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

[TIGGOSAURUS]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:08pm

Actually David Hyde Pierce & Kelsey Grammer would be my ideal, but I could imagine a few others who could pull this off:

Nathan Lane
Harvey Fierstein
Carol Burnett
Patrick Stewart
Debra Monk

Updated On: 4/9/07 at 05:08 PM

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:10pm

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

[JsnWse]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:13pm

Bernadette Peters and/or Bob Martin.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 7:22pm

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.

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

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 7:48pm

Carol Channing
Patti LuPone
Angela Lansbury
Maxwell Caulfield (barechested?)
James Earl Jones
Patrick Wilson (barechested)
Hugh Grant (barechested)

[G_Schlozinski2]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 8:02pm

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....

[jo]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 8:44pm

I'd say most of the British actors ( including the late Richard Burton) -

*Also, including Michael Ball, who is half-English and half-Welsh. He has such a beautiful speaking ( and singing) voice and accent. He has presented many shows for BBC radio and English television in addition to his stage work. He is also a trained actor and I would love to see him in a drama. His one filmed work was a movie biography of Henry Purcell which cast Michael in the title role.

*Hugh Jackman - so long as he has his shirt off

Seriously, Hugh has an excellent vocal range ( check out his movies, including Flushed Away ) and he was known to audition with a Shakespeare monologue in his early days ( he did that when he auditioned for OKLAHOMA!). My dream stage return for him would be in a Shakespearean drama ( his favourite is HENRY V), with mentor Trevor Nunn directing. He did a few sentences of the Bard's lines ( I think it was Hotspur) for his role as the drunken actor, Root, in THE PRESTIGE.




Updated On: 4/9/07 at 08:44 PM

[Scaulter]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 10:37pm

Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury

[MillieDillmount]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 10:57pm

Sutton Foster.

OOh, better yet: Sutton Foster, Hunter Foster and Christian Borlem together!

And I totally sceond the cast of Grey's Anatomy!!

~Darci

[i_heart_roger_bart]

Posted: 4/10/07 at 2:44am

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)

[sidjones09]

Posted: 4/10/07 at 2:59am

James Earl Jones

[sally1112]

Posted: 4/10/07 at 1:36pm

Patti LuPone,

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

[metropolis10111]

Posted: 4/10/07 at 3:00pm

Bob Martin


Maggie Smith

John Waters

Max Von Essen...;o)

Updated On: 4/10/07 at 03:00 PM

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 2:08am

HUNTER. FOSTER.

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 2:51am

Is anybody going to "Broadway Sings The Phone Book?" on the 12th at Studio 54?

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 2:56am

Travis Cloer
Jesse L Martin

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 3:01am

Donna Murphy. She could find many many layers in a dry cleaning ad.

[Jemmalicious]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 5:53pm

Bebe Neuwirth
Michele Pawk

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

[EugLoven]

Posted: 11/3/07 at 5:56pm

IN CASE YOU WEREN'T ALL AWARE
THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING:

BROADWAY SINGS THE PHONE BOOK AT STUDIO 54 NOVEMBER 12
https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=22461

The Make-A-Wish Foundation makes its Broadway debut when 2007 Tony Award Winning Actress Julie White returns to the Broadway stage to host "Broadway Sings The Phone Book," a fundraiser gala concert for the Metro New York Chapter of the organization. "Broadway Sings the Phone Book" will play Studio 54 on November 12, 2007 at 7PM.

Demonstrating the popular expression "I'd listen to 'so-and-so" sing the phone book," producers Jonathan Tessero, Sarah Melissa Rotker, and Joe Tropia have lined up a fun array of Broadway stars singing their trademark songs... with the lyrics replaced either mad lib style or with names from pages ripped randomly from the phone book. A third performance option includes a variation of the title where performances are crafted with words from pages ripped from a dictionary.