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#51

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:26pm

totally forgot - TERRENCE MANN!!!!

yes i like camelot (one of the first movie musicals i saw) and cabaret ---how could you tell???? anyway but really i was just trying to throw out some names that deserved to be here but hadn't already been posted
"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died

Updated On: 8/13/04 at 11:26 PM

#52

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:26pm

*looks around

What'd I say?
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#53

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:28pm

James Earl Jones is a big sellout who's sullied his reputation as a fine actor by shilling for a phone company. Like he needed the money.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#55

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:30pm

But James Earl Jones is also the voice of CNN so it kind of evens out.

Now Lauren Bacall being spokeswoman for Fancy Feast and now Tuesday Morning....that's a different story.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#59

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:37pm

Bernadette Peters
Joel Grey
Harvey Fierstein (as a performer and writer)
Liza Minnelli
George Hearn
Patti LuPone
Ben Vereen
Chita Rivera
Audra McDonald
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Donna Murphy
Angela Lansbury
Nathan Lane
#62

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:43pm

how about victor garber?
"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died
#63

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:44pm

I wish you hadn't phrased that in the form of a question, because now I'm forced to answer. No.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#64

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:48pm

he's just done so many things - i know that now he only does the disney remakes of classics musical wise but he's got quite an impressive resume
"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died
#65

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:49pm

Godspell movie, Assassins, Sweeney Todd. Love Victor Garber...........but, Anthony Warlow is better. re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#67

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:49pm

John Raitt
Richard Burton
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Terrence Mann
Julie Andrews
Bernadette Peters
Liza Minnelli
Jennifer Holliday
Donna Murphy

But MY personal all time Favorite:
Marin Mazzie
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee "It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza

Updated On: 8/14/04 at 11:49 PM

#68

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:53pm

oops I forgot Joel Grey and Angela Lansbury
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee "It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza
#70

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/14/04 at 12:44am

Besides many of those already listed, I wouldn't consider a list of 'greatest' complete if it didn't also include:

George M. Cohan
Ethel Barrymore
John Barrymore
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Helen Hayes
Mary Martin
Kim Stanley
Geraldine Page

... I give up. This could go on forever.
(and aren't we the lucky ones for it!)
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mamie4 5/14/03
#72

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/14/04 at 1:26am

again - (as usual) I'm replying late to an intersting thread - but, I can't stand Michael Crawford. Then again - I'm in a weird club here - I also do not understand why everyone loves Hunter Foster
"What could a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate? I am now telling the computer exactly what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!"
#74

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/14/04 at 4:49am

Other names that have come to me:
Laurette Taylor
Eva Le Gallienne
Jason Robards
Gertrude Lawrence
Katharine Cornell
Edwin Booth (see how far back I can go!)
Lillian Russell
Colleen Dewhurst


Where's Margo? I'll bet she can think of many more GREATS than I can.
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mamie4 5/14/03
#75

re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME

Posted: 8/14/04 at 8:31am

I'm shocked it took 2 pages of posts for Ethel Merman to show up in this thread, but I guess that is just the way it goes. I'm even more shocked that Barbara Cook has yet to appear (unless I missed it). Maybe people only associate her with her concerts, but she has starred in numerous Broadway productions including The Music Man, Candide, and She Loves Me.

As for the men, I don't think Jerry Orbach or John Cullum have been mentioned yet. I'm not sure I would pick either as Greatest of All Time, but they are certainly as great as Michael Crawford and the like.
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