People who should have a theatre named after them
People who should have a theatre named after them
#0People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:04pm
In my opinion:
Arthur Miller
Ethel Merman
Stephen Sondheim
Uta Hagen
Stella Adler
Tennessee Williams
Anyone else have ideas?
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#1re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:11pm
Laurette Taylor
John Raitt
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#3re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:17pm
Julie Andrews was only in four Broadway shows. Im not sure a theatre naming is really worthy of her....
That said, I think Julie Harris has probably earned the right, along with Mary Martin, Oscar Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe and most of the others already mentioned.
Updated On: 5/9/05 at 05:17 PM
#4re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:27pm
1. Stephen Sondheim!!!!!- my idea is to rename the Eugene O'Neil theater the Stephen Sondeim Theater right in time for the revival of Sweeney Todd (I can dream, can't I!)
2. Arthur Miller
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#5re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:30pmThe Sondheim Theatre certainly has a nice ring to it I also agree with Arthur Miller. Maybe Davis and Dee Theatre...
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#6re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:33pmWhile I agree that many of these people do deserve to have theatre's named after them. Can we please stop renaming theatre's! Esp theatre's who were named after someone to begin with! The Eugene O'neil should not be renamed!
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"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
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#7re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:52pmI really agree with Sondheim and Miller; two of theatres greatest contributers.
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#8re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:52pm
Sondheim
Kander & Ebb
#9re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:06pmTHE GEORGE HEARN THEATRE!!!
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#10re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:12pm
I think the
Stella Adler Theater for the Performing Arts sounds good.
But I think Sondheim should have a playhouse not a theater.
The Soundheim Playhouse.
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#11re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:18pm
Stephen Sondheim
Leonard Bernstein
Jerry Herman
Hal Prince
Jerry Orbach
Cy Coleman
Eventually, Tommy Tune
#12re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:27pm
I agree with the following:
Coleman
Kander and Ebb
Sondheim
All three have stellar work associated with the theater.
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#13re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:29pm
Cy Coleman
sondheim
awkward.
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#14re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:38pmDavid Merrick
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#15re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:39pmFrank Wildhorn Theater & Storm Door Company
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#16re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:48pm
Sondheim
Julie Andrews is a legend... I say she deserves one!
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#17re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 8:31pmI would put Tennessee Williams ahead of Arthur Miller....
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#18re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 8:41pmArthur Miller needs a theatre named after him. I don't know how Neil Simon got a theatre before Miller.
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#19re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 8:41pm
On the performing side... how about the Colleen Dewhurst, the Jason Robards or the Estelle Parsons...
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#20re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 8:41pm
David Merrick
Stephen Sondheim
Gower Champion
Bob Fosse
Arthur Miller
Cole Porter
Ethel Merman
Tennessee Williams
Irving Berlin
Cy Coleman
Mary Martin (maybe)
Bernadette Peters (maybe)
Jerry Herman (maybe)
Jule Styne (maybe)
Angela Lansbury (maybe)
Frank Astaire (maybe)
Gene Kelly (maybe)
#21re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 9:37pm
Bob Fosse
Arthur Miller
Tennesee Williams
Stephen Sondheim
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#22re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 9:40pmProblem is too many names & too few theaters
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#23re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 9:44pmWell, if every corporate-named theatre gave up their name, we could fit a bunch. Just my quaint little pipe-dream...
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#24re: People who should have a theatre named after them
Posted: 5/9/05 at 9:56pm
there are so many "should be's" and "will be's (eventually)"... if these theatres keep getting renamed, how are they special anymore? I DO agree with naming theatres of people who have contributed immensly to the theatre community, so maybe attatch a name? Like the Lunt Fontanne. Why couldnt the Rogers be The Rogers Hammerstein? You know? That has a pretty cool ring to it.
Just a thought.
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