Post your favorite 'Unsung' Broadway Legend

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:30pm

Lets acknowledge those "Unsung" performers who have worked for DECADES, been in EVERYTHING and given us GREAT performances.




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My choice is Harvey Evans!

Here are just SOME highlights of a great career:

Appeared in Original Broadway Productions of:

Gypsy
Redhead
New Girl in Town
Anyone Can Whistle
Hello Dolly
West Side Story
Follies
Sunset Blvd.


... not to mention countless tours and regional productions.

He has worked with ALL the greats.

Love ya, Harv!







2004 Chat with Harvey:
http://www.robertarmin.com/Evans.htm

Updated On: 6/13/07 at 02:30 PM

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:37pm

edited sorry

i thought this was for other unsung legends too :)

Updated On: 6/13/07 at 02:37 PM

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:41pm

Sorry Dirty.. I'll go back to my original idea.

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:43pm

its fine, haha

i dont really care at all

[jv92]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:40pm

Ditto Harvey Evens. I'd also like to add another cast member from the original Follies, John McMartin, a simply brilliant actor who has been working for years. He's in Grey Gardens now of course, but he's also been in besides Grey Gardens and Follies, Sweet Charity (with Gwen Verdon), the revival of Into the Woods among other shows.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:47pm

Patti Karr!
http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=72644

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:55pm

Dolores Gray!
Tearin' the shizz up in IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:09pm

Beth Fowler

[jv92]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:16pm

Beth Fowler, John McMartin, Harvey Evans. A lot of early Sondheim people.
Speaking of Ms. Fowler- she's been working often enough, but what ever happened to some of her fellow cast members fro the original Night Music. The girl who played Anne, Patricia Elliot who played Charlotte, the fellow who played Henrik? Did they move on to Hollywood or decide to leave the profession?

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 8:58pm

The Original B'way Anne-Victoria Mallory and Henrik-Mark Lambert actually married.. and are still together, I believe.

Mallory and Mark Lambert have been working in TV pretty regularly.


Last I heard of Teri Ralston, she was directing in Southern California. I saw her production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and BAKER'S WIFE.

Both were pretty well done.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 9:01pm

Beth Fowler.

Inherit the Wind
Escape: 6 Ways to Get Away
The Boy From Oz
Bells Are Ringing
Beauty and the Beast
Sweeney Todd
Teddy & Alice
Take Me Along
Baby
Peter Pan
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
A Little Night Music
Gantry

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 11:03pm

Kaye Ballard

Karen Morrow

Two women with big, brassy bold voices who were peerless with a comedy song and exquisite with a ballad and had some of the worst luck when it came to picking shows.

[kyleorlando]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 11:16pm

Annie Golden


Xanadu (understudy)
The Full Monty
On the Town
Ah, Wilderness!
Leader of the Pack

Plus she was on the backers productions of Hairspray and Carrie.

Maybe she is just too quirky or something, but I really think a lot of shows missed out on her talent.

[Boq101]

Posted: 6/13/07 at 11:21pm

she was the original Fromme in Assassins, too

[TommyTunesSon]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 1:40am

Patricia Elliot has been on the soap opera One Life To Live for something like 20 years.

She hasn't done enough shows, but I just love Liz Callaway - what an amazing voice! Wish her career had taken off more!

I also love Inga Swenson, especially her vocal performance on the 110 In The Shade original broadway show cast album. I can't hear those songs at all without hearing her vocal inflections - she acts the songs as she sings them. It's a phenomenal performance (i'm too young to have seen the production).

[TommyTunesSon]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 1:42am

Patricia Elliot has been on the soap opera One Life To Live for something like 20 years.

She hasn't done enough shows, but I just love Liz Callaway - what an amazing voice! Wish her career had taken off more!

I also love Inga Swenson, especially her vocal performance on the 110 In The Shade original broadway show cast album. I can't hear those songs at all without hearing her vocal inflections - she acts the songs as she sings them. It's a phenomenal performance (i'm too young to have seen the production).

[philcrosby]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:39am

Karen Morrow
Susan Johnson
Patti d'Beck

[scooter38432]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 9:05am

Beth Fowler may have been around for a long time, but lately her pitch problems are unforgiveable!

She was so "off" in THE BOY FROM OZ, I sat there writhing in disbelief that a woman who used to sing so well has lost all sense of pitch. Sad but true.

[jewishboy]

Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:23am

Joan Diener,
She sadly was not recognized by the Tony awards for her amazing performances in both Kismet and The Man of La Mancha. There is a lot of talk on this board about Broadway singers who have both soprano and low belting voices... well you really can't talk about them without mentioning Joan Diener; who in my mind was the first one to have that kind of range. Just listen to her renditions of "Not Since Nineveh" (Kismet) or "It's All the Same," "Aldonza," and "What Does He Want of Me?" (Man of La Mancha).

[notsovirginmary]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:36am

Maureen More

[galindagirl2]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 2:51am

JONELLE ALLEN!!!

Hair
Two Gentlemen of Verona
George M!

I could go on forever...

[kyleorlando]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 3:09am

Annie Golden "was the original Fromme in Assassins, too"

I can't believe I forgot that!!! I am totally unworthy of her love! Word!