If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
mint0621
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/04
#0If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:23am
Who would it be?
Mine:
Clara (LITP)
Maureen (Rent)
(I'm planning to have daughters...)
#1re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:28am
"She Loves Me" has always been special to me, as it was while I was doing that show in high school that I "officially" decided that I was going to become an actor. I've often thought that if I ever have a daughter (and I hope I do) that I would name her after the main female character, Amalia (and call her "Molly" for short).
But let's see how my future wife thinks about that
downtowndiva84
Broadway Star Joined: 2/12/06
#2re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:28am
Boys: Mark (Rent)
Jamie (TLFY)
B/c I'm apparently planning on having adorably neurotic Jewish sons lol.
I don't know if I especially love any girls names from musicals..I'll have to keep thinking.
Coin operated boy
All the other real ones
that I destroy
Cannot hold a candle
to my new boy and I'll
Never let him go
and I'll never be alone
Not with my coin-operated
boy
Jyn326
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#3re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:29amI've already been planning on using Cosette as a middle name. She is not my favorite character, but I love the name. Les Mis is my favorite musical so I want to use that name in representation of my love for musical theatre.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#4re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:33am
Haha, I was gonna say Clara from Light in the Piazza.
Natalie - All Shook Up
Christine - Phantom of the Opera
Bobby - Urinetown
can't think now
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#5re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:38am
Not a character, but if our first child had been a girl my wife and I were going to name her after Audra MacDonald.
More recently I have been pushing for Clara, should we have another girl.
#6re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:40am
Joanne-Company
Vera-Mame
Maureen-Rent
Aurora-Kiss of the Spider Woman
Valentin-Kiss of the Spider Woman
Giorgio-Passion
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#7re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:43am
As you may guess from my avatar, I would definitely name one of my little girls Clara :0)
I'd also name a boy Charley with Merrily We Roll Along in mind.
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#8re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:44am
although I will never have kids, yeah! because i am not too kid-friendly. I will just say a few names, because Ray wrote some...LOL
Ruth(Wonderful Town)
Amneris(Aida)
Marian(WIW)
Laura(WIW)
Pryia(Bombay Dreams)
Angel(The Rink)
Whor*(Amour), ok this last one is a joke.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#9re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:44am
although I will never have kids, yeah! because i am not too kid-friendly. I will just say a few names, because Ray wrote some...LOL
Ruth(Wonderful Town)
Amneris(Aida)
Marian(WIW)
Laura(WIW)
Pryia(Bombay Dreams)
Angel(The Rink)
Whor*(Amour), ok this last one is a joke.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#10re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:44am
ugh
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Updated On: 2/14/06 at 12:44 AM
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#11re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:45amI want a daughter, Dot from SITPWG and then a boy Mason, but that I was inspired off of from Dead like me
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#12re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:47am
Clara and Fosca from Passion. I love both of those names.
A little off topic, but I LOVE Raul Esparza's name and Manoel Felciano's name too. So unque.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#13re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:48am
Roger - Rent
Clara - Passion & Piazza
Benjamin or Tobias - Sweeney Todd
Marius - Les Miz
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Wicked_fan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/25/04
#14re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:51am
OMG I would liek totally name my child Elphaba or G(a)linda...
soooooooo kidding.
joke.
um. I actually like Clara from Piazza
or Hope from Urinetown
or possibly Jamie from either Bright Lights Big City or The last 5 years.
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"
-Feste from "Twelfth Night"
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#15re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:05am
I'll never have kids either, my partner is 44 years old so he has a "no babies for us" rule but this is fun so I'd do it:
Girls:
Fosca-Passion
Maureen-Rent
Eileen-Wonderful Town (maybe our hypothetical daughters can be best friends, muscle23)
Faye-Anyone Can Whistle
Boys:
Stephen for Mr.Stephen Sondheim of course.
Frederick-A Little Night Music
Cliff-Cabaret
Joel for Joel Grey, lol.
#16re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:08am
faith (bklyn)
skye (mamma mia)
angel (rent)
brooklyn (bklyn)
when i get my dog im naming it link or seaweed(if its black)
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
#17re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:15amIf I ever have a daughter, I want to name her "Beatrice" (from Much Ado About Nothing) But if I have another daughter, I will name her "Johanna" (from Sweeney Todd, duh!) Cause how great would it be to hear that song, and know you were named after it?
#18re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:16am
Mine are also not characters, but I sort of want to name my child, if it was a girl Audra Murphy (after Audra McDonald & Donna Murphy) and if I had another girl I'd name her Garland, after Judy, of course:)
I was thinking if I had a son I would name him Sondheim, but I would worry about him getting teased...
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
Updated On: 2/14/06 at 01:16 AM
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#19re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:23amWell it wouldn't be Fanny that's for sure.
#20re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:56amI really do love the name Idina. lol. I'm diggin Audra though too. Boy if I were a child, I would be honored to be named after that woman! Garland is also really pretty too!
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gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#21re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 2:07am
Yeah, Joanna is really pretty. Maybe Bella, as in Bella from Rags, which actually means "beauty".
For guys, how about Bobby/Billy from almost every musical I can think of, or Julian from 42nd Street.
#22re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 5:21amI too love the name Johanna, although it wouldn't go well with my last name if I named my daughter that.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 5:49amSeaweed
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
#24re: If you could name your child after a character in a musical...
Posted: 2/14/06 at 6:56am
Ruprecht...ok just kidding.
Maybe Kathy (L5Y)
Norbert Leo Butz quotes about John Lithgow: "He's really clumsy. One of the joys in life is to watch a great big huge man totally wipe out backstage. It takes John about three minutes to hit the floor. It's like watching a Great Sequoia falling gracelessly."
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