People who should have a theatre named after them

#1

People 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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#2

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:11pm

Laurette Taylor
John Raitt
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#3

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:14pm

Julie Andrews

#4

re: 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

#5

re: 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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#6

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:30pm

The Sondheim Theatre certainly has a nice ring to it I also agree with Arthur Miller. Maybe Davis and Dee Theatre...

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#7

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:33pm

While 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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#8

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:52pm

I really agree with Sondheim and Miller; two of theatres greatest contributers.

#9

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 5:52pm

Sondheim
Kander & Ebb

#10

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:06pm

THE GEORGE HEARN THEATRE!!!

#11

re: 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.

#12

re: 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

#13

re: 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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#14

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:29pm

Cy Coleman
sondheim

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#15

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:38pm

David Merrick

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#16

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 6:39pm

Frank Wildhorn Theater & Storm Door Company

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#17

re: 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!


Joel Grey?

#18

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 8:31pm

I would put Tennessee Williams ahead of Arthur Miller....

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#19

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 8:41pm

Arthur Miller needs a theatre named after him. I don't know how Neil Simon got a theatre before Miller.

#20

re: 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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#21

re: 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)

#22

re: 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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#23

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 9:40pm

Problem is too many names & too few theaters

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#24

re: People who should have a theatre named after them

Posted: 5/9/05 at 9:44pm

Well, if every corporate-named theatre gave up their name, we could fit a bunch. Just my quaint little pipe-dream...

#25

re: 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.