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#77

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/05 at 11:49am

Bette Midler
Julie Andrews
Carol Burnett
Donna Murphy
Marin Mazzie
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Updated On: 11/17/05 at 11:49 AM

#78

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/05 at 12:00pm

Mary Stuart Masterson for sure!

Even though I just saw her twice in the staged reading of "Commentaire d'Amour" last weekend at the Florence Gould Hall. That was not Broadway but she was on stage. She read the play together with Josh Hamilton. They were both great!
#80

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 11/17/05 at 2:32pm

I've got to go along with the others who've said Daniel Davis. It just hurts to think that I may never see that fine actor on a New York stage again. (I think he's only done that one radio show since the La Cage mess.)
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#84

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 1:10am

Three words: Mark. Richard. Ford.
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#86

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 1:20am

I know that she did "Anna in the Tropics" in 2002 or 2003, but I want Daphne Rubin-Vega!!!!! But shes doing the Lincoln Center show so I guess I win!

Heather Headly needs to come back also!
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#88

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 2:27am

So I have an idea.

Does anyone remember that television movie called "These Old Broades" starring Shirly Maclaine, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor?

Though a good concept, the movie left something to be desired.

What if it were reworked and cast with a bunch of older Broadway ladies?

How amazing would that be?

By the way, when Carrie Fischer first went to write "These Old Broades," she was actually wrote it for Debbie Reynolds, Shirley Maclaine, Elizabeth Taylor, and LAUREN BACALL!

Now what if we could get her back on Broadway?
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Updated On: 12/3/05 at 02:27 AM

#89

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 4:40pm

The8re fans list:
Liza Minelli
Barbra Streisand
Linda Eder
Betty Buckley
Lilias White
Heather Headley
John Cameron Mitchell
Megan Mullaly
Judi Dench
Jennifer Holliday
& Angela Lansbury

with and add in of billy porter(of course) and Audra Mcdonald.
#90

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 4:46pm

maybe Betty Buckley should replace Patti, and not Bernadette. After all, Betty has learned the role. re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?
#91

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:04pm

I'm still roiling from the argument that Bernadette "could" take over for Patti, even though she wouldn't "be as good" as LuPone? Interpreting Sondheim??? I enjoy Patti as much as next nutty theatergoer, but Bernadette is THE only true legend for our generation that can still sell tickets. Yes, Chita is a legend that can at 72 still carry a show. Patti and Betty Buckley are the next closest thing to musical superstars poat 1960, but they have one tenth the clout and, in my honest opinion, the talent of Bernadette.

Next thing you know we'll have a post about how both Patti and Bernadette could learn a thing or two from Idina... Or how Eden Espinoza is a more natural Mame than Lansbury.

I'm going to hide back under a rock now.
#93

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:28pm

Lea Salonga
Liza Minnelli
Joel Grey(in something that really shows his depth and talent on stage and not just his ability to dance around with a green girl. I think it was entertaining to see him in this role, and he was very good, but for me it wasn't really on the same level as his previous work. He's really capable of carrying his own show-when he's healthy, that is.)

Updated On: 12/3/05 at 08:28 PM

#95

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 9:56pm

"These Old Broads" was perhaps one of the dullest, flattest vehicles ever to hit television. Carrie Fisher had one good book/screenplay in her (I've read her other books), and she needs to stop writing now. It really took an incredible lack of talent to make a movie that boring with a cast that fantastic.

And (d5j, I swear I'm not picking on you personally!), Lauren Bacall was back on Broadway not too many years ago in WAITING IN THE WINGS. The other cast members acted rings around her - she couldn't keep up. She's not an actress - she's a personality.
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Updated On: 12/3/05 at 09:56 PM

#96

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 10:58pm

ken jennings, last time i heard of him he had a bit part in urinetown.
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#97

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:12pm

"and i second mandi and julia murney!"

maybe i misunderstood but i thought the discussion of performers who have not done theatre in at least a year or two...julia murney was just in a show.

i agree with a lot of performers already named so I'll just add one since i don't believe i saw her on the thread:

marcia mitzman!!!
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#98

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:51pm

coleen sexton..i don't get how she isn't back on broadway..
linda eder for sure..
hugh jackman..obviously..
ruthie henshall..she should ALWAYS be on broadway...
ann crumb..what ever happened to her??

and i would like to be back on broadway too...=)

as far as a replacement from Woman in White..i think THAT would be a good vehicle for Ruthie Henshall.....
#99

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/4/05 at 8:10am

CAROL CHANNING!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, how I wish my dream production of a musical ARSENIC AND OLD LACE would be written to star Carol, Angela Lansbury and Eric McCormack.
Of course, Jerry Herman has to do the score.
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#100

re: Which Actors Should Return to Broadway?

Posted: 12/4/05 at 8:51am

Melissa Errico (although that's unlikely to happen, seeing how she's in the family way)
Karen Akers
Vanessa Redgrave
Faith Prince
Alison Fraser
Lillias White
Mary Testa
Donna Murphy
Emily Skinner
Alice Ripley
Jennifer Ehle
Karen Ziemba
Betty Buckley
Randy Graff
Natasha Richardson

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