Liza and Barbra are the only Broadway DIVAS!

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 3:56pm

Maybe Shirley Mac Laine and Julie Andrews, but there are no others!

I just love them and had to say it.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:00pm

Haha, I'm really sorry, but your Sarah Brightman avatar that says DIVA is delightfully contradictory!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:03pm

How can That Streisand Woman be a BROADWAY Diva when she hasn't done a Broadway show in over 40 years?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:06pm

"How can That Streisand Woman be a BROADWAY Diva when she hasn't done a Broadway show in over 40 years?"

And she's only done 2 Broadway shows at that. By that count, Glenn Close should be a bigger Broadway diva because she's done more than 2 shows.

I guess people like Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera and several others are just "also-rans".

Updated On: 2/25/09 at 04:06 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:08pm

You're right, I will add Sarah Brightman to that list, I forgot about how many stage credits she has.

Stage credits

Musicals
-I and Albert (as Vicky and street waif), 1973 Picadilly Theatre, London
-Cats (as Jemima), 1981 New London Theatre
-The Pirates of Penzance (as Kate), 1982
-Masquerade (as Tara Treetops), 1982
-Nightingale (as Nightingale), 1982 Buxton Festival and the Lyric, Hammersmith
-Song and Dance (as Emma) , Palace Theatre in London on 28 April 1984
-Requiem (as Herself), 1985 New York and London
-The Merry Widow (as Valencienne), 1985
-The Phantom of the Opera (as Christine Daaé), 1986 Her Majesty's Theatre London, 1988 Broadway
-Aspects of Love (as Rose Vibert), 1990 London, Broadhurts Theatre 1991 Broadway

Plays
-Trelawny of the Wells (as Rose Trelawney), 1992
-Relative Values (as Miranda), 1993 Chichester Festival and Savoy Theatre
-Dangerous Obsession (as Sally Driscoll), 1994 Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke
-The Innocents (as Miss Giddens), 1995 Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:10pm

ok.. and from your list, I see 3 on Broadway... so shouldn't she be a West End diva?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:13pm

"ok.. and from your list, I see 3 on Broadway"

And how many Broadway credits does she have that her former husband didn't write/produce?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:25pm

I think Harvey Fierstein and Nathan Lane qualify.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:26pm

The big O is the only diva as far as I'm concerned.

[Calvin]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:34pm

Oprah?

What about that I Love Lucy landlady who was in Annie's Got A Gun or whatever it was called, by that Germany guy.

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:39pm

I think Audra should be on that list. She has 4 Tonys. And I agree, Harvey and Lane qualify!

Updated On: 2/25/09 at 04:39 PM

[CurtisTaylorJr2]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:43pm

How can they be when they're presence on Broadway has been minuscule?

[Broadway Baby 2]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 8:53pm

"How can That Streisand Woman be a BROADWAY Diva when she hasn't done a Broadway show in over 40 years?"
Well said Dollypop!

[heo1128]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 9:09pm

Is Patti not a diva...?

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 9:11pm

"Is Patti not a diva...?"

She's said that she isn't, or at least that she doesn't like the term being applied to her.

[Broadway Baby 2]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 9:14pm

Patti is the Queen Diva whom all other divas shall worship!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/25/09 at 10:53pm

Barbra is FAR from being a Broadway diva. She only has 2 Broadway credits:

Miss Marmelstein in I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE (1962)
Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL (1964)

That's it.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 1:04am

Patti is too rude to be a diva. She can sing though and would qualify as a diva if she had manners.

[landryjames2]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 12:27pm

It's a bit absurd to not give Streisand props for her Broadway contributions even if she was technically on stage for just two shows. She was in three movies based on Broadway productions (Funny Girl, Hello Dolly, and On a Clear Day), plus a few other movie musicals which were very "Broadway" (Funny Lady, Yentl). And any one of those movies were viewed by more people than ever attend an actual Broadway show in a given year. Her two Broadway albums "The Broadway Album" and "Back to Broadway" brought Broadway to the millions like no other "Broadway" recording in the '80's and 90's. On her non-Broadway albums, there is always a smattering or two of a few Broadway songs.

To minimize her contributions to the Broadway musical form is not correct.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 12:45pm

"Her two Broadway albums "The Broadway Album" and "Back to Broadway" brought Broadway to the millions like no other "Broadway" recording in the '80's and 90's. On her non-Broadway albums, there is always a smattering or two of a few Broadway songs."

So by this definition, people such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sinead O'Connor should be Broadway divas.

[landryjames2]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 12:49pm

I am saying that in the '80's and 90's a lot more people were aware of Broadway (in any form) than they would have been without Streisand. And by a lot--I mean millions.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 12:57pm

And yet how many times has she sung on The Tony Awards in the last 40 years? In past years, The Tony Awards have several times been almost thrown off the air because nobody watches. How much could she have boosted their viewership just by showing up and singing (or even lip synching) one song? Heck, she could have even recorded a video to be shown at the Tonys.

Updated On: 2/26/09 at 12:57 PM

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 2:47pm

WHAT have you been smoking? (original poster). There are any number of ladies who are considered "divas" in a good or not so good way. RC in Austin, Texas