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If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances would you like to have seen?
#25re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:03am
-- Angela in Sweeney
-- Patti and Michael and Manoel in Sweeney Revival
-- RENT OBC
-- Idina and Kristen in OBC
-- Norbert and John in DRS
-- Bernadette Peters in Into the Woods
-- Idina in See What I Wanna See
-- OBC Avenue Q
-- Avenue Q with Barrett Foa
-- Patti in Evita
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#26re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:04am
Patricia Routledge in 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE and DARLING OF THE DAY
Judy Holliday in HOT SPOT
Mary Martin in JENNIE
#27re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:07am
Oh god. SO MANY.
Liza in Flora, the Red Menace
Liza in Chicago
(Let's face it: Liza in anything.)
Merman in Gypsy, AGYG, and Anything Goes.
Sure, Patti in EVITA. (!!!!)
Dick York in Bus Stop (I swear, I'm cool.)
The original cast of SITPWG, ALNM, Follies, Company, [insert every Sondheim show I haven't seen here]
Bernadette in Mack & Mabel!
Dick Van Dyke in The Music Man and Bye Bye Birdie (CHITA TOO, obviously)
Chita in Chicago. Oh, and The Rink, which I guess I already mentioned when I pointed out Liza in ANYTHING.
And, uh... come back to me.
Edited: Hi, I like how I forgot Carol Channing in the original run of Hello, Dolly. I mean, I saw her in the last revival, but, yeah. I would kind of LIVE for that.
Updated On: 8/10/06 at 11:07 AM
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#28re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:14am
This isn't really far in the past, but I would've loved to see Sutton Foster in conert at Lincoln Center. Other performance I would've enjoyed seeing:
-Hunter Foster in Urinetown (gotta love them Fosters!)
-Harvey Fierstein in Hairspray
-original cast of the Producers
I'm sure there are plenty of other performances but I can't think straight now...plus I'm at work. Lol.
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#29re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:17ammillie - I was lucky enough to see that concert at Lincoln Center. I heard about it and snapped up 2 tickets. It really was incredible. One thing I'm looking forward to is Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley at Town Hall in October. I HATE that I missed them in Side Show, but I'm glad that I'm going to catch them in this concert event.
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#30re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:30am
Ethel in Gypsy
Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie
Gwen Verdon in Sweet Charity
Marlon Brando in anything
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#31re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:36am
The OBC od Sweeney Todd.
The OBC of West Side Story.
I'm sure theres so many more, but I just woke up, and by brain isn't working.
#32re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:41am
Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson in Cabaret.
The original casts of Angels in America (both parts).
One of the Sweeney Todd concerts with George, Patti and Neil.
And, just for sheer entertainment value, Manoel Felciano falling into the pit in JCS. 
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#33re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:42am
Gwen Verdon in SWEET CHARITY
Barbra Streisand in FUNNY GIRL
and yeah, that wouldve completed my life.
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#34re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:49am
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie in Ragtime
Heather Headly and Sherie Renee' Scott in Aida
Susan Egan in Beauty and the Beast
Jennifer Holiday in Dreamgirls
Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner in Side Show
#35re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:59am
Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Angela Lansbury in Gypsy
Liza in Chicago
Ruthie Henshall & ORLC in Chicago
The Australian production with Chelsea Gibb which toured to Hong Kong
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#36re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 4:46pm
Deborah Yates in Contact
Chita Rivera in West Side Story
Robert Preston in The Music Man
Ingrid Bergman in anything
#37re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 4:48pm
Jennifer Holiday in "Dreamgirls"
Barbara Streisand in "Funny Girl"
Angela Lansbury in "Mame"
Victoria Clark in "The Light in the Piazza"
Ethel Merman in "Gypsy"
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 8/10/06 at 04:48 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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#38re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/10/06 at 5:06pmIsn't it amazing how many of us would liked to have seen Ethel Merman in Gypsy?
#39re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/17/06 at 5:47pm
Chita Rivera in anything
The Original cast of Aida and Rent
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#40re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/17/06 at 6:10pm
Merman in "Gypsy"
Julie Andrews in "My Fair Lady"
The OBC of "A Chorus Line"
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#41re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:37pmJane Lapotaire in "Piaf." I play the clip of her singing La Vie en Rose on "Broadway's Lost Treasures II" all the time.
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#42re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:34pm
Bernadette Peters in Song & Dance and Sunday in the Park with George.
Michelle Lee and Tommy Tune in Seesaw.
Dorothy Loudon in Annie and Ballroom.
Jane Krakowski, Michael Jeter, and David Carroll in Grand Hotel.
The OBC of A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls.
Jennifer Holliday in Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Maggie Smith in Lettice & Lovage
The OBC of Angels in America
#43re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/17/06 at 8:36pm
Jane Krakowski in Nine
Julie Andrews in Camelot
Sutton Foster in Grease (as Sandy)
Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls
and so many more
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#44re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/17/06 at 9:08pm
OBC of Wicked
OBC of RENT
Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick in The Producers
Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon
Michael Arden in BARE
oh! and the one I couldn't get to NYC for recently:
Jonathan Pryce and Norbert in DRS.
Updated On: 8/17/06 at 09:08 PM
#45re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/20/06 at 6:23pm
Phantom of the Opera - Michael Crawford & Judy Kaye
RENT - Original Broadway Cast
My Fair Lady - Julie Andrews
Beauty and the Beast - Ashley Brown
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#46re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/20/06 at 8:57pm
Laurette Taylor in THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Katharine Hepburn in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Judy Holliday in BORN YESTERDAY
Judy Holliday in BELLS ARE RINGING
Ethel Merman in GYPSY
Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in MY FAIR LADY
Shirley MacLaine going on for Carol Haney in THE PAJAMA GAME!
#47re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/20/06 at 9:23pm
Wow you all make me feel old! I've seen most of the listed performers. Except for those in Rose Sayer's list, which would be the same list as mine:
Laurette Taylor in THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Katharine Hepburn in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Judy Holliday in BORN YESTERDAY
Judy Holliday in BELLS ARE RINGING
Ethel Merman in GYPSY
Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in MY FAIR LADY
Shirley MacLaine going on for Carol Haney in THE PAJAMA GAME!
Most of the rest, I've seen!
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#48re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/20/06 at 11:02pm
*Audrey Hepburn-- Gigi
*OBCs of Rent and Light in the Piazza
*Patti in Evita
*Mary Martin in Sound of Music
*OBC of West Side Story
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#49re: If you could have been there in the past, what performers/performances
Posted: 8/20/06 at 11:26pm
Patti Lupone in Evita
The OBC of Sunday in the Park With George
The OBC of Urinetown
The OBC of Rent
The OBC of Into the Woods
Ben Vereen in Jesus Christ Superstar
both parts of Angels in America
Ethel Merman in Gypsy
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Elaine Paige in Company
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