What Inspires You?- Page 3

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:36pm

>> everyone is so damn nice too.

Uh... right! We are!

Now if you'll just come over and sit on this casting couch for a moment....

:)

[BakersWife3]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:49pm

carolee carmello
sutton foster
marin mazzie
harriet harris
alison janney
an orchestra warming up
truth, truth, truth, truth, truth!!!!!!!
bette
rogers and hammerstein
idina (yes, when she's singing defying gravity...i couldn't help it...it floored me and i'm so glad that it did)
joanna gleason (esp. as the baker's wife)
moments of silence in plays
the last act of Ibsen's A Doll House
marching bands
ethel merman
judi dench
vagina monologues
susan stroman
vivaldi
blank pages + art supplies
books
TRUTH and the search for truth as an actor

the list goes on and on but that's all i can think of at the moment

[ponine24601]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:54pm

sean martin, um....what do you mean by that?

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:07pm

theatrechief i adore your answers. The applause, the laughter of the audience when a joke sells, the possible smiles you can bring to people that weren't there before. The family building of the cast, the risk taking, the possiblity that something may go wrong but that's part of the fun. The high!

and people-wise:

- it sounds cheesy, but my good friend will do anmything to perform as career and its so inspring.
- CAPPIES, a critics review program I do that's inspired me to go into journalism (But of course act on the side! I coudln't live w/o acting, but don't wnat to do it professionally).
- starmaking stories like Sutton's
- the story of Marx and Lopez
- persistance like Chenoweth's after her failed show
- Sondheim not selling out

(Sorry if that was incedibly cheesy but it's all true).

Updated On: 7/8/04 at 06:07 PM

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 8:02pm

Once, when I was just a boy, a man stole me away from my young mother. I was forced into a car and driven 400 miles to El Paso, Texas. There I was presented to a royally dressed Chinese immigrant woman. My captor informed her that he had given birth to me and I was his present to her. She threw her ginger ale to the Purgo® floor and demanded more from this vagrant. He though a moment and then performed a one man version of the “Mikado”. I was so moved by that, I decided that I would work the rest of my life helping others to know the great Gershwin musicals.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 8:20pm

Why, nothing, ponine, nothing at all...

I just thought you'd like to see us a little... you know... "friendly"... which we can be, of course.

Here, make yourself comfortable.


:)

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 8:21pm

Sutton Foster
Michelle Federer
Kristin Chenoweth
Audrey Hepburn

[bwaymargie]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 9:37pm

*God
*NYC (duh)
*Kristin Chenoweth
*Sutton Foster (yay for sort-of-local girls! haha)
*Barbara Cook (wahoo!)
*Carly Jibson (another local girl!)
*Kate Reinders (")
*Applause at curtain call
*Opening Nights
* 11'o clock Numbers
*William Finn (the master of the ballad)
*Jason Robert Brown
*Rogers and Hammerstein Music (aah the lyrics)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/8/04 at 9:44pm

The experience of reality.
Beauty.
Love.
Frustration.
Need.
Desire.

Personal creative inspirations: Beethoven, Marlowe, Whoopi, Ian McKellan, Judy, Daniel Day Lewis, Etta James, Ray Charles, Vermeer, Baryshnikov, Pavarotti, Van Cliburn, Martin Luther King and the Dali Lama.