#1
Posted: 9/5/11 at 8:23pm
1. Kristin Chenoweth
2. Karen Ziemba
3. Loretta Ables Sayre
4. Faith Prince
2. Karen Ziemba
3. Loretta Ables Sayre
4. Faith Prince
What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
#2
Posted: 9/5/11 at 10:34pm
Bernadette Peters
Audra McDonald
Patti Lupone
Betty Buckley/Sutton Foster (tie)
Audra McDonald
Patti Lupone
Betty Buckley/Sutton Foster (tie)
#3
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:04pm
1.Marin Mazzie
2.Audra McDonald
3.Bernadette Peters
4.Donna Murphy
4.Alice Ripley
4.Kristin Chenoweth
4.Sutton Foster
4.Tyne Daly
4.Christine Ebesole
4.Patti LuPone
*Shout out to Lauren Kennedy, who I saw recently starrring in the musical Violet. She's wonderful and very charasmatic.
(Why narrow the field so small. We are so blessed with our divas right now! There are many other great ladies of musical theater besides the ones I've listed. Non-musical divas would be another long list.)
2.Audra McDonald
3.Bernadette Peters
4.Donna Murphy
4.Alice Ripley
4.Kristin Chenoweth
4.Sutton Foster
4.Tyne Daly
4.Christine Ebesole
4.Patti LuPone
*Shout out to Lauren Kennedy, who I saw recently starrring in the musical Violet. She's wonderful and very charasmatic.
(Why narrow the field so small. We are so blessed with our divas right now! There are many other great ladies of musical theater besides the ones I've listed. Non-musical divas would be another long list.)
#4
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:06pm
Sutton Foster
Laura Benanti
Patti LuPone
Sherie Rene Scott
Laura Benanti
Patti LuPone
Sherie Rene Scott
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#5
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:12pm
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Elaine Stritch
Angela Lansbury
Bernadette Peters
Elaine Stritch
Angela Lansbury
#6
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:27pm
Patti Lupone
Bernadette Peters
Donna Murphy
Harvey Fierstein
Bernadette Peters
Donna Murphy
Harvey Fierstein
#7
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:38pm
Mary Martin
Ethel Merman
Carol Channing
Gwen Verdon
Ethel Merman
Carol Channing
Gwen Verdon
#8
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:05am
3 Priscilla divas + Patti LuPone
#9
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:11am
Bernadette Peters, Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy, Patti LuPone
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
#10
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:32am
Current:
Stritch
Lansbury
LuPone
Rivera
All-Time:
Stritch
Merman
Lansbury
Rivera
Stritch
Lansbury
LuPone
Rivera
All-Time:
Stritch
Merman
Lansbury
Rivera
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#11
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:38am
Presently working ladies:
LuPone
Peters
Murphy
Ebersole
LuPone
Peters
Murphy
Ebersole
"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
Updated On: 9/6/11 at 08:38 AM
#12
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:44am
That subject heading... sheesh.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#13
Posted: 9/6/11 at 11:24am
Barbara Cook
Chita Rivera
Elaine Stritch
Angela Lansbury
Chita Rivera
Elaine Stritch
Angela Lansbury
#14
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:27pm
Alice Ripley
Tonya Pinkins
Sherie Renee Scott
Audra McDonald
Tonya Pinkins
Sherie Renee Scott
Audra McDonald
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#15
Posted: 9/6/11 at 3:51pm
1. Angela Lansbury
2. Elaine Stritch
3. Donna Murphy
4. Bernadette Peters
2. Elaine Stritch
3. Donna Murphy
4. Bernadette Peters
#16
Posted: 9/6/11 at 4:07pm
1. Patti LuPone
2. Bernadette Peters
3. Audra McDonald
4. Marin Mazzie
2. Bernadette Peters
3. Audra McDonald
4. Marin Mazzie
#17
Posted: 9/6/11 at 5:45pm
1.Lansbury
2.Channing
3.Rivera
4.Verdon/Prince
2.Channing
3.Rivera
4.Verdon/Prince
#18
Posted: 9/6/11 at 6:00pm
Peters
Buckley
Mazzie
Ebersole
Buckley
Mazzie
Ebersole
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#19
Posted: 9/6/11 at 7:42pm
Of the thrilling diva performances I've seen, it would have to be:
1. Angela Lansbury in Gypsy
2. Patti LuPone in Evita
3. Bernadette Peters in Sunday in the Park
4. 3-WAY TIE: Alexis Smith and Dorothy Collins in Follies and Elaine Stritch in Company
1. Angela Lansbury in Gypsy
2. Patti LuPone in Evita
3. Bernadette Peters in Sunday in the Park
4. 3-WAY TIE: Alexis Smith and Dorothy Collins in Follies and Elaine Stritch in Company
Updated On: 9/6/11 at 07:42 PM
#20
Posted: 9/6/11 at 7:55pm
1. Angela Lansbury
2. Elaine Paige
3. Patti LuPone
4. Ruthie Henshall
2. Elaine Paige
3. Patti LuPone
4. Ruthie Henshall
#21
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:54pm
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Elaine Stritch
Ethel Merman
Bernadette Peters
Elaine Stritch
Ethel Merman
#22
Posted: 9/6/11 at 9:06pm
Oh man, PalJoey. That weird feeling is my jealousy radiating out at you from midtown.
This is tough because there are more contenders than I expected, but I'll go with the four I would drop everything to go see in ANYthing.
Patti LuPone--I planned a vacation around getting to see her do Annie Get Your Gun at Ravinia
Elaine Stritch--From the time I first saw her in A Delicate Balance, I've been a dedicated fan. From Full Monty at Paper Mill to Endgame at BAM (which she was brilliant in) through her more prominent roles (and concerts and benefits).
Bernadette Peters--This is tricky because I'm often slightly disappointed by her having missed (I fear) her best days. I'll still see anything she does and settle for the performances I'm less enthusiastic about (Annie Get Your Gun) to get to the moment I think she achieves brilliance (A Little Night Music--disagree if you must!).
And last...I feel like it should be Audra McDonald, but thinking it through, I've let opportunities to see her pass me by. So the person I think I never miss is Donna Murphy. I still think she deserved the Tony this year.
This is tough because there are more contenders than I expected, but I'll go with the four I would drop everything to go see in ANYthing.
Patti LuPone--I planned a vacation around getting to see her do Annie Get Your Gun at Ravinia
Elaine Stritch--From the time I first saw her in A Delicate Balance, I've been a dedicated fan. From Full Monty at Paper Mill to Endgame at BAM (which she was brilliant in) through her more prominent roles (and concerts and benefits).
Bernadette Peters--This is tricky because I'm often slightly disappointed by her having missed (I fear) her best days. I'll still see anything she does and settle for the performances I'm less enthusiastic about (Annie Get Your Gun) to get to the moment I think she achieves brilliance (A Little Night Music--disagree if you must!).
And last...I feel like it should be Audra McDonald, but thinking it through, I've let opportunities to see her pass me by. So the person I think I never miss is Donna Murphy. I still think she deserved the Tony this year.
#23
Posted: 9/6/11 at 9:06pm
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Bebe Neuwirth
Christine Ebersole
Bernadette Peters
Bebe Neuwirth
Christine Ebersole
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#24
Posted: 9/6/11 at 10:34pm
First time posting on here after years of lurking!
Donna Murphy
Patti Lupone
Angela Lansbury
Audra MacDonald
And I'm surprised to find myself typing this but I'd add Tyne Daly after seeing her in Master Class!
Donna Murphy
Patti Lupone
Angela Lansbury
Audra MacDonald
And I'm surprised to find myself typing this but I'd add Tyne Daly after seeing her in Master Class!
#25
Posted: 9/6/11 at 10:47pm
I used Sauja's criteria for this (who would I drop everything to see?), as I have seen many wonderful leading ladies:
Donna Murphy
Bernadette Peters
Christine Ebersole
Angela Lansbury
Donna Murphy
Bernadette Peters
Christine Ebersole
Angela Lansbury
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