What does your name mean?
What does your name mean?
#1What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 5:32pm
As in BWW username. Taking inspiration from Ado Annie D'Ysquith and her avatar thread, as I find these sorts of things endlessly fascinating.
Mine is the name of the flamboyantly delusional director in Waiting For Guffman (probably my favorite non-musical film).
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#2What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 5:54pm
My 2 childhood obsessions: JAWS and Bob Fosse.
Brody as in Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) in JAWS.
Incidentally, Roy Scheider would go onto starring as Joe Gideon (Bob Fosse) in Bob Fosse's ALL THAT JAZZ.
It all comes full circle, folks.
TheThreadMaster
Featured Actor Joined: 2/25/17
#3What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 6:06pm
I noticed that these chat things were called "threads"; and thus when I finally got an account I declared myself a master of them
#4What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 6:08pm
When I was 15 I had a tree fall on me and was referred to as "that tree girl" for the rest of high school. I just kinda stuck with it
Cat Guy
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
#5What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 6:10pm
The most pleasant of my days have been spent in the company of cats. My passion for cats is well known within my community, where I am commonly called the "Cat Guy". That suits me fine.
leighmiserables
Broadway Star Joined: 4/26/17
#6What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 6:12pm
Mine's pretty straightforward. My name's Leigh. Sounds similar to "Les" (at least in French). I like Les Misérables. I thought it was witty at the time.
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#7What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 6:13pm
I forgot the password to my original account, so I had to make a new one. AlexKulak was taken by my old account, so I picked AlexKulak2.
SharksVsJets
Stand-by Joined: 4/22/17
#9What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 7:10pm
Mine is just a word I made up a long time ago. My then-boyfriend and I were talking about meat and we got to thinking: if cows are beef, pigs are pork, etc., what would humans be? So we came up with "hork." Since then, it's sort of become my default user name, but now I wish I had used something Broadway related (I think of good user names all the time, but I'm stuck with this one).
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#10What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 7:24pm
I worked on a show that featured sword fights prominently so I picked my favorite weapon (sabre) and since i am of the female persuasion gender wise ( sabre female didn't have quite the ring to it) lady - since I also am fascinated by class structures, lady seemed a good fit and its been my nom du interweb for the last 15+ years.
#11What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 7:38pm
I have no recollection of making an account on this site, but Cinders is from "Mr. Cinders," which is one of my favorite musicals, and Golightly is from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - and actually one of my middle names!
#12What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 8:47pm
Alex Kulak2 said: "I forgot the password to my original account, so I had to make a new one. AlexKulak was taken by my old account, so I picked AlexKulak2.
"
I used to have an account called youwillbefound but I forgot the password to it too so... youwillbefound2
#13What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 1:30am
As a brunette, I chose this name because it reminded me of when I was a kid and loved watching Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour movies. Also loved all those "Road To" movies with Bing. Movies from yester-year.
Updated On: 7/19/17 at 01:30 AM
#14What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 1:32am
Jorge is a nickname.
#15What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 2:17am
Mine was like my 12th attempt at coming up with an unclaimed username. I wanted to involve my name (which begins with the letter J) and my love of Broadway. It's a pretty terrible username though. Especially since my love of theatre now goes far beyond the restrictive confines of Broadway. I definitely wish l could change it, but it's not important enough to me to create another account.
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#16What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 6:25am
My first name is Art. I used to work with a girl who used to call me Art Man. So the nickname kind of stuck.
#17What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 8:03am
BrodyFosse123 said: "My 2 childhood obsessions: JAWS and Bob Fosse."
Disparate obsessions! 
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
Plannietink08
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/11
#18What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 8:29am
I'm from a place in Scotland called Fort William and my community was called The Plantation as it was situated on the side of a huge hill and was once filled with greenery, it was always considered a poor area - despite the fact that it's not, I had absolutely glorious views growing up with a mountain outside my front window and a mountain outside my back window. Most people would kill for views like the one I grew up with.
Anyway, the youngesters of Fort William always call it "the plannie (plan-ee)" and if you were from there you were "a plannie tink" with "tink" being a Scottish slang word for a poor person. In High School I just embraced the name and owned it. In 2008 I started using it as a username and have done it ever since.
The row of houses at the top left hand side of the photo is "the plannie"
#19What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 8:33am
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
#20What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 9:14am
Once in 2004, my friend referred to me as "Crazy NooNooHead" in passing. I liked the name and decided to stick with it.
#21What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 9:14am
Wow, these are all so lovely! It's amazing to get a sense of everyone's personalities (beyond just show preferences and the like). It's funny that the way a whole community knows you can be decided so randomly (or meaningfully. These are running the gamut and I love it).
#23What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 9:42am
urgh. I was obsessed with Wicked... and had just seen Beauty and the Beast... and my lucky number was 4. I don't know if I shall ever forgive the banality of my 13 year-old self...
#24What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 10:00am
Wowza...I'm an inspiration! My life has achieved self-actualization...thanks, Corky! 
Anyway, I picked this name because I've always used Ado Annie in Oklahoma to describe the kind of roles I usually get cast as. I thought it would be funny to combine her free-spirited American character with the stuffy British family from GGLAM, so "D'Ysquith" it was.
irishgator1
Featured Actor Joined: 5/3/16
#25What does your name mean?
Posted: 7/18/17 at 10:02am
Where I went to college and grad school...and when I went to register irishgator, it wasn't available and I had to tack the 1 on at the end.
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