Which Broadway Star should do an autobio one person show?

Gwen Verdon if she was still alive.

Updated On: 12/6/05 at 04:57 PM

Not a Broadway star...

But I would LOVE to see Betty White do one.

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JULIE HARRIS

If she's able...

Angela Lansbury.

Actually, now that I think of it, Fosse isn't really an autobio.

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Well, rath, nobody said she had to do one right his minute. Just, eventually.

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Bernadette Peters

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Angela Lansbury -- from Hollywood (two Oscar nods) to Broadway (4 Tonys) plus an interesting personal life (mom was a stage mother; sons had major drug problems)

Carol Burnett

Shirley Maclaine -- is reportedly interested in doing a solo show on Broadway in the next year or two

Tommy Tune -- 9 time Tony winner (for acting, directing and choreographing); he's been around since the 60s and must have tons of stories

Betty Comden

Baayork Lee (her career stretches all the way back to being a kid in the original cast of King & I; one of Michael Bennett's core friends and colleagues, she'll be in charge of recreating the staging and choreography for the A Chorus Line revival -- she's overseen literally hundreds of productions of it around the workd in the past 30 years; might have some interesting stories to tell about being Asian on Broadway from the 50s on).

Lauren Bacall

Andre deShields (he's still got it!)

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Updated On: 12/6/05 at 06:52 PM

Bernadette Peters doing a one person show....interesting but she's not one to talk about her personal life. I'm sure there would be a fabulous song list though!

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I'd LOVE to see Angela Lansbury do it. I'm suprised no one mentioned Jerry Orbach (if he were still alive).

Yes, both Teri Ralston and Merle Louise have a unique point of view and stories to tell. I saw Merle's cabaret act some years ago and a finer performer you could not imagine. I still remember her interpretations of My Father and Until Its Time For You to Go. In the age of AIDS she made a lasting impressions. Teri, of course, has had just a fabulous career. As a teenager I wrote her when she was in the Baker's Wife. That sweetheart sent a letter apologizing for taking so long to respond, saying "i'm finally in a show that is in trouble". What a thrill for a kid to get the inside scoop for the gal who Blessed this Day and new the difference between the soul and the heart. To paraphrase Horace Vandergelder: Wonderful WomEN.

I agree...I would love to see Bernadette Peters do one. Angela Lansbury too would be great, I love her....I think you guys have covered the ones on top of my list. I think a few more years, and Anthony Rapp should do one. I know he has a lot of stories to tell and encountered a lot of personal life issues during Rent and whatnot. But not for a couple years at least.