What is your avatar?
What is your avatar?
#1What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 9:21am
People on this board have such interesting avatars, but I don't recognize some of them. So let's clear up the confusion and share what exactly is pictured in our avatars!
Me: From top left and clockwise, Ariana Debose in A Bronx Tale, Autumn Hurlbert in A Taste of Things to Come, Phillipa Soo in Amelie, and Emma Stone in La La Land.
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#2What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 9:31am
Mine's a shot of JCM in the Off-Broadway Hedwig. I saw the picture when I was 15 and remember being shocked and awed by it. The profile name's a reference to Harvey's Casa Valentina - a show of which I try to catch every regional production I can.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 9:54am
Mine is the picture I took of Elaine Paige at the curtain call closing night of Sunset Boulevard on Broadway.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#5What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 9:58am
Renée Elise Goldsberry performing "Satisfied." One of the greatest performances I've ever witnessed.
#6What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 10:04am
Mine's a photo of an actual street in Baltimore I snapped on a whim from the car. As you can probably tell, I'm a HUGE Sweeney Todd fan :)
#7What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 11:01am
My avatar is from the 2nd (still ill-fated) production of The First Wives Club in Chicago. It was my first Pre-Broadway tryout I saw, and ironically enough the first pre-Broadway tryout I saw that didn't go to Broadway. In the picture they're singing their first group number "I'm So Lucky" in which they all disclose their disaster marriages. Starring Carmen Cusack (pre-Tony nom.), Christine Sherrill (who needs to be on Broadway yesterday), and the legendary Faith Prince.
#9What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 11:38am
Rachel Weisz from Terence Davies' film The Deep Blue Sea (2012).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#10What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 11:44am
Mine is Mary Tyler Moore and the cat from the ill fated musical adaption of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#12What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 11:58am
Laura Bell Bundy singing So Much Better in Legally Blonde which is my guilty pleasure musical..
SharksVsJets
Stand-by Joined: 4/22/17
#14What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 12:29pm
AC126748 said: "Rachel Weisz from Terence Davies' film The Deep Blue Sea (2012).
Every time I see yours I think it's Anne Hathaway!
#15What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 12:31pm
Mine is from Hedwig and the Angry Inch - the origin of love.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#16What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 12:38pm
Ken Fallin's Bette. Still waiting for a drawing of Donna Murphy....
BakerWilliams
Leading Actor Joined: 2/1/16
#17What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 12:52pm
@AC The Deep Blue Sea is 2011, but it's still fabulous.
Mine is from Annie Baker's John at the Signature Theatre, a play that I saw way too many times and still wish I saw more.
#18What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 12:57pm
Mine is a shot of Annaleigh Ashford and I in San Francisco! Circa 2015, pre-Tony win.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
#19What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 12:58pm
Mine is an onstage pic at the Ambassador Theatre (Chicago). It was a very happy experience for me, to visit backstage.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
asmith0307
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/14
#20What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 1:02pm
For some reason I can't see mine to confirm, but if it is there and it is what I think it is, it is a photo of the house of the Oriental Theatre in Chicago (taken from the set of Newsies).
An empty house right before opening or during tech is one of my favorite times. Even though everything is calm, there is still a little buzz of energy in the air.
#21What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 1:25pm
The cover of my album, which is a collection of original songs sung by various pop and Broadway singers.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#22What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 1:46pm
Mine is the original portrayal of the character in my bww name:
Bjorn Bjelfvenstam as Henrik Egerman in Bergman's Smile of a Summer Night.
#23What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 1:54pm
gleek4114 said: "My avatar is from the 2nd (still ill-fated) production of The First Wives Club in Chicago. It was my first Pre-Broadway tryout I saw, and ironically enough the first pre-Broadway tryout I saw that didn't go to Broadway. In the picture they're singing their first group number "I'm So Lucky" in which they all disclose their disaster marriages. Starring Carmen Cusack (pre-Tony nom.), Christine Sherrill (who needs to be on Broadway yesterday), and the legendary Faith Prince.
"
Bless you for trying to keep the memory alive of that show. My first pre-Broadway show I saw was Amazing Grace.
My avatar is Squigs' drawing of American Psycho. I saw the closing night of that show and I have been obsessed ever since.
asmith0307
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/14
#24What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 2:05pm
I had the opportunity to see that production of First Wives Club as well. I went to school with one of Christine Sherrill's sons, so it was a little extra fun to see her (though I originally came for Cusack). I knew things weren't looking good when I showed up to the theatre with my cheap balcony seat and was moved to 10th row orchestra on the aisle (though, it was in the middle of a snow storm to be fair).
Here's to the Broadway tryouts that never moved (or did, but flopped spectacularly). My list also includes Wonderland (the Houston tryout), the last Chicago performance of Amazing Grace, and the first performance of Gotta Dance (though they still have hope).
#25What is your avatar?
Posted: 7/17/17 at 2:13pm
Well, I'm just mortified! Mortified, I tell you! Ya'll have such cool avatars, full of meaning related to your favorite theater experiences.
My avatar is just a picture of a woman in a white fedora. I was writing a lyric to a 40s-style ballad titled "The Girl in the White Fedora" and I realized I wasn't entirely sure what a fedora looked like. My husband found that photo for me and it was handy when I joined here.
I think I'll go look for something a little more meaningful now... (And maybe something that doesn't confuse other posters into thinking I'm a woman.)
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