Past Broadway Stars You Wish You Had Seen- Page 2

[knicknut]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 12:29pm

Jerry Orbach
Gregory Hines
Gene Kelly
Fred Astaire

And not Broadway related, but I would kill to have seen the Rat Pack live at the Sands. Updated On: 12/31/07 at 12:29 PM

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:00pm

Pearl Bailey! I love this woman with all my heart! RIP PEARLIE MAE! Plus to see the original cast of streetcar without Jessica Tandy and with Vivien would be Heaven! I have read a few things from Brando that said Jessica was not committed to the part like the rest of them, and that Vivien Leigh was the real deal.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:10pm

ETHEL MERMAN.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:36pm

I forgot one. Tallulah Bankhead in anything, but particularly The Little Foxes.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:38pm

Jerry Orbach
Ethel Merman

[WonderRobbie]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:40pm

Ms. Kahn

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:47pm

I saw Madeleine Kahn in Born Yesterday and Sisters Rosensweig; I would have loved to see her in the Off-Broadway musical Promenade -- I was living in Chicago at the time and missed it.

[sally1112]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 1:52pm

Like so many before me, I'll have to say Ethel Merman. I think it is a nice tribute to her that her name appears so often in this thread.

All you all that did she her- lucky dogs!

[Connemara]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 1:21pm

Tallulah Bankhead
Angela Lansbury in "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd"
Gwen Verdon

But above all, Dorothy Loudon. In ANYTHING. What a goddess.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 1:32pm

Merman, of course. I might have been able to catch her in a concert or two, but DOLLY closed before I ever got to travel to NYC as a teen.

Mary Martin. I missed the chance to see her -- FREE -- in the awful "Legends" and I regret it to this day.

Bette Davis onstage -- "Night of the Iguana," or "Two's Company" or even "Miss Moffat."

Some legendary performances I have been lucky enough to see:

Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, and Jerry Orbach in CHICAGO (twice)
Angela Lansbury in GYPSY
Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters in MACK & MABEL
Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara in VIRGINIA WOOLF
The original cast of LES MIZ
Anne Baxter in APPLAUSE (my first Broadway show)
Hal Holbrook in KING LEAR, UNCLE VANYA and DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Olympia Dukakis in MOTHER COURAGE
Piper Laurie in THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Kevin Kline and Blythe Danner in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 1:38pm

I loved Sam Harris in the tour I saw of Joseph when I was a little kid and would love to see another show with him in the futer. His voice is crazy!!

[dshnookie]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:25pm

I'm only 4 years too late, but I would've really liked to have seen Kristen and Idina in Wicked. I only saw the show for the first time this past Oct. while it was on tour here in Boston. I always thought that maybe they'd return one day, but then I thought to myself "OBC members may only come back if the show dips in its grosses" and uh Wicked isnt going anywhere for a while so there goes that.

[sesot]

Posted: 1/3/08 at 6:32pm

I wish i could have seen julie Andrews in her prime; I bet it was amazing.

Others: Gregory Hines, Gwen Verdon, and Ethel Merman

I wish ic ould have seen the original cast of West Side Story too.