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#50If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 12:27pm^^^^^^LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#51If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 12:37pm
Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#52If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 12:47pm
Stephen Sondheim and William Shakespeare
OR
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein
OR
Patti LuPone and Ethel Merman
OR
Laurence Olivier and Angela Lansbury
Updated On: 6/23/10 at 12:47 PM
#53If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 2:27pmStephen Sondheim and Bob Fosse; and then I'd develop osmosis and go write the best show ever. God, imagine if they had collaborated on something... if it ever worked it would beat anything that came before it. That's what I'd do at that dinner; convince them to collaborate!
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#54If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 2:30pm
Barbra Streisand and Lainie Kazan.
#55If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 4:01pmI like the ALW and Patti LuPone idea
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iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#56If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 8:23pm
Sondheim and Laurents
or maybe Merman and Laurents.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#57If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 8:36pmSondheim & Liza
Just give the world Love.
#58If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 10:23pm
How about Liza and Alice Ripley?
All that crazy would not fit at one table.
#59If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/23/10 at 10:29pm
Gosh, I don't know. I've always wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein, but I'd be more interested in his concer work than his theatre work, so he's out.
Maybe Jerry Robbins and Michael Bennett. I've encountered Sondheim and Prince (though not at a dinner party), so they're out.
"Stephen Sondheim and Bob Fosse; and then I'd develop osmosis and go write the best show ever. God, imagine if they had collaborated on something... if it ever worked it would beat anything that came before it. That's what I'd do at that dinner; convince them to collaborate!"
The problem with a Fosse-Sondheim collaboration wouldbe that it would never have happened. Sondhei has little intersted in showbiz and that's all that Fosse did (not denying that he did it brilliantly though). That's why Michael Bennett and Sondheim never did a show together after Follies, although I think with maturation (had he lived), Bennett would have gotten interested in other things and done another Sondheim show.
Updated On: 6/23/10 at 10:29 PM
broadwaybabe1234
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/09
#60If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/24/10 at 1:10am
Oh! this is actually fun!
intellectually:
Bob Fosse and Michael Bennett
...other:
Susan Blackwell and Jackie Hoffman ( i don't think i could eat anything because i'd be laughing so hard...)
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#61If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/24/10 at 1:14amStephen Sondheim and Audra McDonald
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#62If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/24/10 at 1:20amChita Rivera and Rita Moreno
#63If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/24/10 at 7:13am
Ethel Merman and George C. Scott.
newintown: You reminded me of the great Lehman Engel. I would like to spend an evening with Lehman Engel, just the two of us, talking and gossiping about all things Broadway.u
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#64If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/24/10 at 8:11amAnybody, paired with anybody: Jonathan Larson, Seth Rudetsky, Michael Grief, Tom Kitt, Angela Lansbury, Remy Zaken (obsessed), and Marc Shaiman. The list goes on.
#65If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/24/10 at 8:18amShakespeare and Sondheim. But I'd definitely need more than just one dinner....there would be so much to discuss.
#66If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/24/10 at 4:09pmShakespeare and Orson Welles or Olivier and Branagh
#67If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/27/10 at 3:09pmDaisy and Violet Hilton
#68If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/27/10 at 3:21pm
for real?
I love myshikobit's combo of Sondheim and Fosse. Two true geniuses who always seem(ed) to exhibit genial, humble personas in public.
#69If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/27/10 at 4:46pmHA at Daisy and Violet!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Dsiggy15
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/10
#70If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/28/10 at 1:21amJackie Hoffman and Nathan Lane
Scottsacto
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/05
#71If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/28/10 at 1:53am
My choices
Oscar Wilde & Stephen Sondheim. I am sure the conversation would be very stimulating!
Stagedoor2
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/04
#72If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:02pmThe first person to pop into my head was Elaine Stritch (back in her drinking days) and then, maybe Carol Burnett. Or Jerry Orbach. Acutally, the list is endless.
#73If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:12pm
Sondheim and Vivien Leigh
OR
Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#74If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part
Posted: 6/28/10 at 3:45pm
I would love Fosse and Sondheim. Good one.
Some I've thought of:
Sondheim and Harold Arlen (Love Arlen, and you know Sondheim would have a good time too.)
Susan Johnson and Karen Morrow (A night out with some awesome belters! They also seem like lovely people.)
Fosse and Gwen Verdon (In the 1960s, preferably. I'd get wasted and sing some old tunes with them .)
John LaTouche and Sondheim would be a good one too.... John LaTouche and anyone, I think. John LaTouche and Alan Jay Lerner, perhaps?
Can't think of who I'd pair Michael Bennett with, but I'd love to have dinner with him. Maybe just a relaxed evening with Michael and Donna.
With Irma you gotta do something!
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