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THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
#50re: 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
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#51re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:26pm
*looks around
What'd I say?
#52re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:28pmJames 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.
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#53re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:29pmRaithnait - like I said, it was just a special category for single performers - and Judy's appearances at The Palace are legendary.
Matt_G
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#54re: 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.
#55re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:30pmDGrant - every single thing that woman did was legendary.
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#56re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:31pm
Raithnait - that's why she gets my vote for best entertainer ever 
#57re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:35pmMine too!!!
Mattio98
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#58re: 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
#59re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:38pmLauren Bacall is on that earlier list of mine, Matt.
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#60re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:39pm
Bernadette Peters!!!!
Julie Andrews!!!!----> definitely true that you don't see talent like she had anymore performing at the moment.
#61re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:43pmhow about victor garber?
#62re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:44pmI wish you hadn't phrased that in the form of a question, because now I'm forced to answer. No.
#63re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:48pmhe'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
#64re: 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. 
#65re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:49pmZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
#66re: 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
#67re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/13/04 at 11:53pmoops I forgot Joel Grey and Angela Lansbury
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#68re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/14/04 at 12:40am
Umm.... I have to say... Ethel Merman or Bernadette Peters
Just for the record, can't stand Michael Crawford either
Mamie
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#69re: 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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#70re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/14/04 at 1:01amMarilyn Miller, she was the queen once
#71re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/14/04 at 1:26amagain - (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
#72re: THE GREATEST BROADWAY STAR, MALE OR FEMALE, OF ALL TIME
Posted: 8/14/04 at 2:03amJulie Andrews!!!! I lurrvvve her. And Nathan Lane, of course.
Mamie
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#73re: 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
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#74re: 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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