Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends- Page 3

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:18pm

How is Jennifer Holliday a Theatrical Legend?

I think perhaps there should be a different list for legendary performances. Streisand and Holliday both qualify for that, but I don't think either is a theatrical legend unto themselves.

[joeybiltmore1]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:30pm

Here are mine:

STEPHEN SONDHEIM
EDWARD ALBEE
HAL PRINCE
NEIL SIMON
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
CHITA RIVERA
KITTY CARLISLE HART
JULIE HARRIS
JOHN KANDER
CAROL CHANNING

[rKrispyt]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 2:01pm

no Carol Burnett?

How are we measuring this, what standards?

I know when I went to to NYC for the first time there was a show we got to see and Ms. Burnett was in it and I just kept feeling like I was so lucky to see a Broadway Legend in possibly one of her last shows on the great white way - I dunno if it's fair to mark it by their number of Tony's or commercial success. I think people like Jennifer Holliday are people who are going to be remembered forever as being a part of paving the way for a new era of shows or a new crop of performers that didn't have a place on Broadway before that.

Does that make any sense?

[NCGuy]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 2:12pm

I just want to throw in another vote for Jerry Herman (I can't believe we're this far into the thread and he's only been mentioned four times).

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 3:18pm

I didn't include Herman on my list because I don't particularly like him - which isn't to say that he couldn't be considered.

And to the poster a while back who argued with me for leaving Cy Coleman off the list -- ummm, hate to break it to you, but he's no longer a LIVING legend...

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 3:54pm

I said I was surprised Ms. Holliday hadn't been mentioned but perhaps she should go under legendary performance.

My list of living Broadway legends (performers) I think of:

(Women)
Donna McKechnie
Ann Reinking
Celeste Holm
Michelle Lee
Taina Elg
Nanette Fabray
June Havoc
Elizabeth Ashley
Gretchen Wyler
Maureen Stapleton
Elaine Stritch
Tammy Grimes
Patti LuPone
Patricia Morison
Julie Harris
Chita Rivera
Carol Channing
Edie Adams
Leslie Uggams
Kaye Ballard
Bea Arthur
Angela Lansbury
Janis Paige
Bernadette Peters
Barbara Cook

(Men)
Tony Roberts
Alan Alda
Tommy Tune
Ben Gazzara
George Hearn
Robert Goulet
Len Cariou
Hal Linden
Dick Latessa
Frank Langella
Robert Morse
Charles Nelson Reilly
Larry Keith
Charles Durning
Tom Bosley

Who could pick just 10!

[Forester]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 4:02pm

Time Rice

[jczelyph]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 4:10pm

Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Elaine Paige, Cameron Macintosh, Boublil and Schoenberg.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 1:25am

I don't recall anyone's mentioning John Cullum, but he should be included.

Updated On: 7/15/05 at 01:25 AM

[Eliza0114]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 1:27am

1.Liza
2.Liza
3.Liza
4.Liza
5.Liza
6.Liza
7.Liza
8.Liza
9.Liza
10.Liza

I effing love that woman.

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:22pm

Betty Comden

[The8re phan]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:45pm

First & foremost --- Stephen Sondheim

the distant remaining.....

Chita Rivera
Jerry Herman
Angela Lansbury
Harvey Fierstein
Eugene Lee
Bernadette Peters
Tommy Tune
Patti Lupone
Jerry Mitchell