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.
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.
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
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.
