If you could...

#1

If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 9:59pm

have a private, legitimate master class with a Broadway performer (past or present), who would it be?

Mine would be Dame Julie Andrews!! She's the reason I started singing when I was 4!!

#2

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:00pm

brian d'arcy james- damn can he sing!
jane krakowski/Sara Ramirez- them too...

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#3

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:02pm

I would have to say Dave Clemmons.

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#4

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:03pm

tenorific... DAME JULIE ANDREWS would be an infathomable dream come true! It would be amazing, and I would just cry.

so... dame Julie
or Lea Salonga {who is my role model & my second choice... because who can beat dame Julie? Just to meet Lea or Julie would be a thrill}

others: possibily Michael Ball or Sutton Foster or Judy Kuhn

BUT DEFINITELY DAME JULIE ANDREWS OR LEA SALONGA AS MY TOP PICKS FOR A MASTERCLASS

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#5

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:05pm

Judy Garland if you would count her...

If not, then Bernadette or Ethel Merman.

#6

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:12pm

Judy. Or Liza if Judy doesn't count.

#7

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:13pm

Dave Clemmons...

this dream was fufilled last summer :) It was REALLY rewarding

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#8

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:13pm

Oh, my. Um the first person who I thought of was Raul Esparza, but I would be so nervous. Although, if I could work in front of Raul Esparza, I could work in front of anyone.

Hmm, maybe Angela Lansbury.

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#9

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:28pm

Gosh. Way too many...
Julie Andrews
Bernadette
Sutton Foster
I'm sure there are so many more...

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#10

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:37pm

Raul Esparza.

... provided that I had the ability to be taught to act. But he's brilliant in so many other ways, too.

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#11

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:58pm

Oh Emcee, you set this up so well, and leave me with no choice...

I think there are some things that Raul Esparza couldn't even teach! He's not a miracle worker, you know!

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#12

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:24pm

GREGG EDELMAN- he is my Broadway hero. I saw him when i was 10 i think in 1776 as Rutledge. He sang Molasses to rum to slave. and he tore it up it was AMAZING.

Brian Stokes Mitchel- he's jsut awesome

Brent Carver- PARADE, INCREDIBLE

#13

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:32pm

I'd say Joel Grey just because he's a classic song and dance man.

Or Brian Stokes Mitchell because he's awesomem.

Probably wouldn't learn anything from Harvey but it sure would be hilarious.

#14

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:42pm

Bernadette Peters..........she is so awsome....

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#15

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:44pm

Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera. They were instruments for the masters...Jack Cole, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse...and practised an intellectual approach to theatre dance. I'd be in heaven if I could be a beneficiary of their collected knowledge.

#16

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:46pm

UTA HAGEN...without a doubt. It's a shame I wasn't able to before she passed.

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#17

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/30/05 at 11:59pm

Denzel Washington...nuff said.

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#18

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:09am

Probably Kristin Chenoweth or Sutton Foster. Both extremely talented stage women. I would love to take a master class with either of them.

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#19

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:10am

Audra McDonald
Bernadette Peters
Uta Hagen

#20

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:30am

Well..of course Alice Ripley....damn, that would be awesome!

#21

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:32am

Sutton...

A triple threat if I ever saw one!
just to be in her presence made me a little more talented...lol

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#22

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:35am

Either Sutton Foster, Julie Andrews or Kristin Chenoweth. All amazingly talented women.

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#23

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 12:45am

First I would take a class with Judy.
Who cares if she's neve rbeen on Broadway, the woman WAS drama.

Then, next, I would soak up the vocal/physical/human brilliance that is Audra McDonald.

And then I'd clean my vocal palette with BSM.

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#24

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 10:47am

Oh gosh!! There's so many! Jerry Orbach (did I mention that I'm obsessed with his work??) and Michael Bennett. <33 ShuQ: Harvey would definitely be an amazing time!

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#25

re: If you could...

Posted: 3/31/05 at 7:57pm

Sutton FREAKIN' Foster all the way!!!

Or maybe Jenny Powers. :)

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