Top Five Favorite and Least Favorite Performers

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 1:44pm

I'm sure this has been covered somewhere but just curious...

Who are your top 5 Favorite Musical Theatre Performers and your top 5 Least Favorite Musical Theatre Performers?

Me:

Favorite
1. Carolee Carmello
2. Betty Buckley
3. Mary Testa
4. Michael Rupert
5. Audra McDonald

Least Favorite
1. Susan Egan
2. Rebecca Luker
3. Shoshana Bean
4. Michael Crawford
5. Christa Moore

[JennyC]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 1:51pm

Fun!

Top five:
1) JAYNE PATERSON - someone get this girl a job!!
2) Marla Schaffel
3) Eden Espinosa
4) Ruthie Henshall
5) Bernadette Peters

Least Favorites:
1) Audra McDonald
2) Will Chase
3) MELANIE GRIFFITH
4) Christine Ebersole (out of sheer spite from the tonys...i admit she's talented, but I'm still bitter)
5) Mario Cantone (ok...enjoyed him in Assassins, but his speaking voice just graaaaaaaates on me).
Unofficial Jayne Paterson Website

[little_sally]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 2:10pm

Favorite:
1.Marin Mazzie
2.Hunter Foster
3.Brian Stokes Mitchell
4.Raul Esparza
5.Sutton Foster

Least:
1.Rebecca Luker
2.Kristin Chenoweth
3.Kerry Butler
4.Jennifer Cody
5.Judy Kuhn

I couldn't think of two more. Oh well.

Updated On: 3/22/05 at 02:10 PM

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 2:21pm

Top 5
1. Bernadette Peters
2. Nathan Lane
3. Chita Rivera
4. Melissa Errico
5. Sutton Foster

Bot 5
I forgot one:
1. I despize Patti Lupone
2. Melissa Jarrot Winoker
3. Kerry Butler
4. Rebecca Luker
5. Harvey Firestein
6. Michael Crawford

Yes I edited this I forgot Patti Lupone

Updated On: 2/17/05 at 02:21 PM

[JeffG]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 2:23pm

Wow. Original Thread. How is this different that "who's your favorite?" Oh wait. I know. Because here you can slam performers you don't like too. How genius.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 2:28pm

what's with the Kerry Butler hate? she's one of my favorite preformers!
IN NO ORDER:
1 Stokes
2 Lane
3 Butler
4 Bart
5 Esparza
6 Fitzgerald
(i could go on and on...)
LEAST FAV:
1 Jen Cody
2 Fierstein
3 Cheno
4 Crawford
5 Buckley

[Mother's Younger Brother]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 2:30pm

Favorite (in no order):
1. Adam Pascal
2. Marin Mazzie
3. Patti LuPone
4. Ruthie Henshall
5. Nathan Lane

Lease Favorite (in no order):
1. Bernadette Peters
2. Michael Crawford
3. Brian Stokes Mitchell
4. John Herrera
5. Rex Smith!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:23pm

Favorites (in no order):

1. Bernadette Peters
2. Donna Murphy
3. Laura Benanti
4. Chita Rivera
5. Audra McDonald

Least favories (in no order):

1. Idina Menzel
2. Nathan Lane
3. Michael Crawford
4. Gary Beach
5. Harvey Fierstein

[Jamie Hat]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:31pm

Seeing that everyone's lists are already negating each other...I will refrain from posting my lists at all.

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 3:55pm

Eh...I really have nothing better to do. And at least this post has symmetry. I like symmetry.

Favorites (in the order I remember them):
1. Bernadette Peters
2. Roger Bart
3. Anthony Rapp
4. Adam Pascal
5. Kristen Chenoweth (whatever. Shoot me. I don't care, and I liked her before Wikcd, so...whatever.)

I couldn't think of five least favorite, and I didn't want to try and single people out. I'm just fuzzy that way.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 4:07pm

TOP FIVE
1. Melissa Errico
2. Emily Skinner
3. Donna Murphy
4. Carolee Carmello
5. Rebecca Luker

LEAST FAVORITE
1. Michael Crawford
2. Marissa Winouker
3. Amy McAlexander
4. Nathan Lane
5. Kate Levering

[Jwei123]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 4:24pm

TOP
1. sutton
2. john tartaglia
3. kate levering
4. bernadette
5. kristin chenoweth

..and I dont have least favorites. I respect all for working their butt's off!

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/17/05 at 4:31pm

top five-
Adam Pascal
John Tartaglia
Stephanie D'abruzzo
Norbert Leo Butz
Harvy Fierstein

Least favorite-
Michael Crawford
Scary Spice

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:36pm

I know this is an old thread, but I was wondering what made Audra McDonald one of your least favorite performers? I sort of get not thinking she's the best thing ever, but why your least favorite? You don't think she's talented at all?

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:39pm

1. Idina Menzel
2. Karmine Alers
3. Sutton Foster
4. Jennifer Laura Thompson
5. Audra Macdonald

Don't really have any least faves...

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:46pm

Favorite:
1. Raúl Esparza
2. Norbert Leo Butz
3. Sutton Foster
4. Anthony Rapp
5. Adam Pascal

Least Favorite:
1. Marissa Jaret Winokour
2. Michael Crawford
3. Colm Wilkinson
4. Carol Channing
5. Kerry Butler

[MissMonika]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:48pm

Favorites

1. Adam Pascal
2. Anthony Rapp
3. Idina Menzel
4. Kristin Chenoweth
5. Heather Headley
6. Sherie Rene Scott
7. Norbert Leo Butz

Sorry, I couldn't narrow it down.

Least Favorites

1. Val Kilmer (ok, just in case if you guys are wondering, there was a new musical in LA awhile ago called the "Ten Commandments" and he was playing the lead. um....yea, terrible terrible because i personally don't think he can sing. i shudder just remembering that experience.)
2.

I have to think about my leasts some more...

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:55pm

Top 5
1.Christopher Fitzgerald
2.Norbert Leo Butz
3.Sherie Rene Scott
4.Donna Murphy
5.Hugh Jackman

I don't have any least favorite peformers so there is no list.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 10:59pm

top five (man, this is TOUGH)
1. Adam Pascal
2. Raul Esparza
3. Sutton Foster
4. Norbert Leo Butz
5. Brian Stokes Mitchell

predictable much?

Okay, no. I can't pick my least favorite... they'd all be stunt-cast people anyway, I think. I'm just too nice.

[MissNY]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 11:04pm

Top 5

1) Norbert Leo Butz
2) Barrett Foa
3) Jennifer Laura Thompson
4) John Tartaglia
5) Idina Menzel

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 3/21/05 at 11:05pm

Top 5-*if i can narrow it down!
1. SUTTON!!!
2. Norbert Leo Butz HA-LAR-I-OUS!! omg heart him!
3. Kerry Butler
4. Jodi Benson *she has to be on here..she is the reason I sing!*
5. Anyone I've seen/heard in Rent! omg soo much talent! (cary shields, colin hanlon, karmine alers! and the OBC!)

Least Fave *too many for this one too!*
1. Christy Carlson Ramano *if you can even CALL her a performer
2. Amy McAlexander *is she always that annoying...cuz i think so!*
3. Carol Channing as well...i want to shoot myself everytime Diamonds are a girls...comes on broadway's best on sirius!
4. Bernadette...not for her performing *cuz that's great* but for her voice...
5. there are many more before her but Jennifer Westfeldt...her voice irks me...and i can't think of anyone right now..but she's farther down than many yet still present on my list..lol

[filmgirl325]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 12:46am

Top 5-

1. John Tartaglia
2. Norbert Leo Butz
3. Roger Bart
4. Kristen Chenoweth
5. Stephanie D'Abruzzo

I don't have a least favorties list.

Updated On: 3/22/05 at 12:46 AM

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 12:18pm

Top Five (in no particular order):
1. Roger Bart
2. Ruthie Henshall
3. George Hearn
4. Bernadette Peters
5. Anthony Warlow

There are about 50 other people I could add to this list, so I just put the first five that I thought of. Now I feel bad for leaving out so many...

Bottom Five:
1. Sarah Brightman (and to be fair: I can listen to her sometimes, but usually her voice just annoys me)

Uh... that's all I can think of. I don't think there are too many performers that I absolutely cannot stand to watch in ANYTHING they do. Well, in musical theatre, anyway.

[WiCkEd BaCcHaE]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 1:20pm

Favorites:
Julie Andrews- THE Goddess of musical theatre.
Bernadette Peters- the Ethel Merman of our generation.
Angela Lansberry- Speaks for herself... (Not sure how to spell the last name, sorry)
Audra McDonald- an Angel in voice and acting.
Eve Ensler- This woman has changed my life more than once.

Least:
Sean Combs- also speaks for himself

[LittleFish8386]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 1:45pm

Favorites-is it ok if I have more then five?

1. Jennifer Laura Thompson (I know you are all shocked...)
2. Jerry Orbach
3. Karen Ziemba
4. Juile Andrews
5. Hunter Foster
6. Rachel York
7. Sherie Rene Scott
8. Douglas Sills


I can only think of one performer I truly dislike and would never see in anything again if I had the power:

1. Amy Spanger


Updated On: 3/25/05 at 01:45 PM