Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

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Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:46pm

Glenn Close, Bernadette, and then Chita. This is supposebly after marketing research done by the producers of Chita Rivera's new show.
Most Recognizable

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#2

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:49pm

Glenn Close????

*vomits*

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#3

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:49pm

No male stars

#4

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:51pm

Yes, that is what I thought about Close as well. I knew Bernadette was a draw but i did not think that big of one.

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#5

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:54pm

Most Recognizable Name in Broadway:

Disney

#6

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:54pm

Glenn Close? I'm surprised that Julie Andrews and Matthew Broderick weren't up there.

#7

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:55pm

Glenn Close? I'd associate her with 101 Dalmatians before Broadway.

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#8

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:56pm

Where did they do their research?

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#9

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:57pm

Marlon Brando, anyone?

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#10

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:06pm

Idina Menzel????

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#11

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:07pm

Many people (mostly the boomer generation) know of Brando more for his movies.

I think Bernadette, Julie Andrews and Matthew Brodedrick (maybe) are the most recognizable

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#12

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:07pm

I do not think Idina Menzel has to much pull. I am sorry they dont give any sources...

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#13

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:07pm

What about Liza Minelli

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#14

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:07pm

Angela Lansbury . . . I mean come one, she was in MURDER SHE WROTE.

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#15

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:08pm

To be completely honest, before I was into theatre, Glenn Close WAS Cruella De Vil. I never knew she had even been on Broadway until I heard "Christmas at Hampton Court," and I still didn't even know about Sunset Boulevard. Maybe I was just retarded, but she's hardly the most recognizable name.

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#16

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:08pm

While I don't think Idina may be that big of a pull, many girls know of Wicked and Rent, so they'd probably know OF her.

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#17

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:11pm

Please. Idina's been on Broadway for 9 years. Chita's been on Broadway for 50. There's no comparison.

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#18

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:11pm

Wouldn't make her most recognizable. She is on the up-and-up though

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#19

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:28pm

I'd say Liza, Bernadette and Julie before anyone else...

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#20

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:30pm

I could tell you no one I know could tell you who Chita Rivera was. Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, and Matthew Broderick have GOT to be the most recognizable. Marlon Brando maybe with the older generation.

Now that Julia Roberts is coming....

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#21

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:37pm

What about Streisand? I'd say she's pretty recognizable to the average person.

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#22

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:40pm

I would have thought it would have been Julie Andrews hands down. I guess it depends who was asked. People who are "aware" of what is going on on Broadway might mention the likes of Chita Rivera, Bernadette Peters but away from New York the general public are more likely to name people that they know of from television and movies that they know of that have done stage work. Hence Glenn Close.

#23

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:41pm

Even though everyone knows Streisand's name, I am not sure that they all think of her as a Broadway star, whereas people like Liza Minelli and Bernadette Peters and Julie Andrews are all known as being musical theatre people.

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#24

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 7:04pm

Glenn Close graduated from William and Mary in Williamsburg VA and was VERY active in the drama department. My dad works on the buildings at the school and in the building that holds the theater there are pictures of all of the past students that have become something and a majority of them have Glenn close in them.

Just thought I'd tell you

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#25

re: Most Recognizable Name in Broadway

Posted: 12/11/05 at 7:08pm

Is it limited to performers only ? Because if not, I think Andrew Lloyd Webber is a very recognizable name associated with musical theater !