What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
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#1What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/5/11 at 8:23pm
1. Kristin Chenoweth
2. Karen Ziemba
3. Loretta Ables Sayre
4. Faith Prince
#2What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/5/11 at 10:34pm
Bernadette Peters
Audra McDonald
Patti Lupone
Betty Buckley/Sutton Foster (tie)
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Understudy Joined: 10/31/10
#2What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
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.)
#3What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:06pm
Sutton Foster
Laura Benanti
Patti LuPone
Sherie Rene Scott
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#4What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:12pm
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Elaine Stritch
Angela Lansbury
#5What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:27pm
Patti Lupone
Bernadette Peters
Donna Murphy
Harvey Fierstein
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#6What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:38pm
Mary Martin
Ethel Merman
Carol Channing
Gwen Verdon
#7What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:05am3 Priscilla divas + Patti LuPone
#8What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:11amBernadette Peters, Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy, Patti LuPone
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#9What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:32am
Current:
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
#10What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:38am
Presently working ladies:
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
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#11What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:44amThat subject heading... sheesh.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#12What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 11:24am
Barbara Cook
Chita Rivera
Elaine Stritch
Angela Lansbury
#13What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 12:27pm
Alice Ripley
Tonya Pinkins
Sherie Renee Scott
Audra McDonald
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#14What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 3:51pm
1. Angela Lansbury
2. Elaine Stritch
3. Donna Murphy
4. Bernadette Peters
#15What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 4:07pm
1. Patti LuPone
2. Bernadette Peters
3. Audra McDonald
4. Marin Mazzie
#16What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 5:45pm
1.Lansbury
2.Channing
3.Rivera
4.Verdon/Prince
#17What is your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 6:00pm
Peters
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
#18WHO ARE your fab four divas of Broadway?
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
#19WHO ARE your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 7:55pm
1. Angela Lansbury
2. Elaine Paige
3. Patti LuPone
4. Ruthie Henshall
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Swing Joined: 7/16/11
#20WHO ARE your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:54pm
Patti LuPone
Bernadette Peters
Elaine Stritch
Ethel Merman
#21WHO ARE your fab four divas of Broadway?
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.
#22WHO ARE your fab four divas of Broadway?
Posted: 9/6/11 at 9:06pm
Patti LuPone
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
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Chorus Member Joined: 9/6/11
#23WHO ARE your fab four divas of Broadway?
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!
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#24WHO ARE your fab four divas of Broadway?
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
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