What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?

[ljay889]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#1

Posted: 8/27/10 at 6:34pm

Please do not include roles from WSS or Gypsy. You may include leading or featured roles. You don't have to list them in particular order, but feel free to.

My Picks (in order)
1. Sally Durant Plummer (Follies)
2. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)
3. Desiree Armfeldt (A Little Night Music)
4. Dot (Sunday In The Park With George)
5. Fosca (Passion)

Honorable Mentions
- Phyllis Rogers Stone (Follies)
- Joanne (Company)
- The Baker's Wife (Into The Woods)

What are yours?

Updated On: 8/27/10 at 06:34 PM

[theatreguy]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#2

Posted: 8/27/10 at 6:58pm

1. Mrs. Lovett
2. The Baker's Wife
3. Dot
4. Sally Durant Plummer
5. Phyllis Rogers Stone

[vfd88]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#2

Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:10pm

1. Dot
2. Mrs. Lovett
3. The Baker's Wife
4. Joanne
5. Sally Durant

[Katurian2]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#3

Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:28pm

1. Mrs. Lovett
2. Dot
3. Little Red Riding Hood
4. April
5. Desiree Armfeldt

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[AwesomeDanny]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#4

Posted: 8/27/10 at 7:44pm

In no particular order:

Mrs Lovett (Sweeney)
Phyllis Rogers Stone (Follies)
Mary (Merrily)
Marta (Company)
Witch (Into the Woods)

[jasonf]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#5

Posted: 8/27/10 at 8:48pm

Mrs. Lovett
Amy
Witch
Desiree
Fosca

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[best12bars]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#6

Posted: 8/27/10 at 8:58pm

Mrs. Lovett
Desiree
Joanne
Petra
The Beggar Woman

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[givesmevoice]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#7

Posted: 8/27/10 at 9:05pm

Fosca
The Baker's Wife
Sally Durrant Plummer
Mrs. Lovett
Amy (Company)

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[mormonophobic]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#8

Posted: 8/27/10 at 9:55pm

Fosca
Mrs. Lovett
The Baker's Wife
Countess Charlotte Malcolm
Dot
Updated On: 8/28/10 at 09:55 PM

[uncageg]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#9

Posted: 8/27/10 at 10:04pm

Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)
Sarah Jane Moore (Assassins)
Marta (Company)
Dot/Marie (Sunday in the Park With George)
The Baker's Wife (Into The Woods)

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[wicked1492]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#10

Posted: 8/27/10 at 10:17pm

1. The Witch
2. Beggar Woman
3. Amy/Marta
4. Dot
5. Cinderella/Baker's Wife

LEAST FAVORITE
Johanna
Little Red
Anne Egerman

"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times

[theaterkid1015]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#11

Posted: 8/27/10 at 11:07pm

1. Mrs. Lovett
2. Joanne
3. Both of the ladies in FOLLIES
4. Countess Charlotte
5. The Witch

Honorable mention to Baker's Wife and the Armfeldt family

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

[IdinaBellFoster]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#12

Posted: 8/27/10 at 11:47pm

Mrs. Lovett
Dot/Marie
Petra
Joanne
Sally

Other great ones: Charlotte, Desiree, Amy, Baker's Wife and Anne Egerman.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

[Elphaba43]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#13

Posted: 8/27/10 at 11:49pm

Dot
Petra
Amy/Sarah
Bakers Wife
Desiree

I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!

[chewy5000]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#14

Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:22am

Phyllis
Charlotte
Marta
Amy
Mary

Honourable Mention:
Cora Hoover Hooper

[pinoyonbroadway]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#15

Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:15am

Fosca (Passion)
Sally (Follies)
Dot/Marie (Sunday)
Madame Armfeldt (Night Music)
Phyllis (Follies)

Everybody's Playing The Game But Nobody's Rules Are The Same Nobody's On Nobody's Side

[backwoodsbarbie]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#16

Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:23am

1) Sally
2) Dot
3) Desiree
4) Cinderella
5) Mrs. Lovett

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[Amalia Balash]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#17

Posted: 8/28/10 at 2:55am

Phyllis Rogers Stone
Dot
The Witch
Cinderella
Amy

[wickedfan11]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#18

Posted: 8/28/10 at 7:47am

Here are my top 7:
Fosca
Sally
The Witch
The Baker's Wife
Dot
Mrs. Lovett
Desiree

[artscallion]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#19

Posted: 8/28/10 at 8:49am

Fosca
Shogun's Mother
Cora Hoover Hooper
Mrs Lovett
Dot

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.

[IdinaBellFoster]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#20

Posted: 8/28/10 at 9:05am

I'm adding Cora Hoover Hooper to mine.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

[tazber]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#21

Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:23pm

Mrs. Lovett
Desire
Dot
The Baker's Wife

And I'm adding Mama Rose in fifth place since she's only half Sondheim's.

....but the world goes 'round

[perfectlymarvelous]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#22

Posted: 8/28/10 at 1:44pm

Petra
Mrs. Lovett
Dot/Marie
Desiree
The Baker's Wife

[aliceidinabernadette]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#23

Posted: 8/28/10 at 4:17pm

Dot
Desiree
Amy
Petra
The Witch

Give me a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and I'll conquer the world!

[EugLoven]

What are your top 5 favorite female Sondheim roles?#24

Posted: 8/28/10 at 6:46pm

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