Skip to main content
My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
Home For You Chat My Shows Register/Login Games Grosses

Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

New Post Search Report Abuse Rules

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.

#1

Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 7:09pm

Sure, there are some great performers on Broadway, but which ones would best fit into the Golden Age?

For Me:
Kelli O'Hara
Carolee Carmello
Mary Testa
Marin Mazzie
Kristin Chenoweth
Emily Skinner

Who else?
#9

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 7:17pm

To me, Sherie just has that old time glamour of the Golden Age. Perhaps her voice may be a bit modern, although she does have the ability to change it ( check out her CD, "The Men I've Had")

Also with all of this Drowsy Chaperone stuff, I think Sutton Foster may be a good choice.
"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"

Updated On: 5/12/06 at 07:17 PM

#11

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 7:40pm

I am also hesitant about Scott, she's a magnificent performer but I find her style to be rather modern.

My list:
-Gregg Edelman
-Michael Cerveris
-Donna Murphy
-Bebe Neuwirth
-Ruthie Henshall
-Audra McDonald
-Brian Stokes Mitchell
-Victoria Clark
#12

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 7:56pm

Please define "Golden Age." I'm not sure what time frame that encompasses. But if it's in the Ethel Merman era (pre Granny Get Your Gun days), as much as I love Audra McDonald, I'm not sure she would fit in, i.e., have the career she's having now despite her massive talent, given the social conditions at the time.
#13

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 7:59pm

Using the face that golden age performers (at least many) tended to have more classical voices:

Audra McDonald. She makes R&H soar...well anything soar. (If we aren't counting skin color, but we all know if Audra worked in the Golden Age she would have been in something R&H).

BSM, same as above.

Kristen Chenoweth (not as a ingenue but as a character actress.)

Victoria Clark
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea." -Marie Christine
#14

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 11:08pm

I can't see Michael Cerveris in the golden age and not sure about Sherie Scott or donna Murphy. I do think that Christine Ebesersole, Debbie Gravitte, Nathan Lane, Brent Barret, Rebecca Luker, Laura Benanti, and Jonathan Pryce.
#16

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 11:12pm

I've always felt Ziemba was born a few decades too late. Everything about her has an old-fashioned sensibility.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

Updated On: 5/13/06 at 11:12 PM

#17

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/12/06 at 11:20pm

What about Sutton Foster?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#18

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/13/06 at 12:27am

Gavin Creel
Brian Stokes Mitchell
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#19

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/13/06 at 12:45am

David Elder.

Whatever happened to him by the way?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#20

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/13/06 at 1:06am

I think there are two:

Sutton Foster, who actually would have been a huge star because there weren't that many TRIPLE threats back then. Merman could sing and sort of act but not dance. Mary Martin could sort of sing and act well (but began as a dancer). Ann Miller could sing and dance but was so wooden and she left for Hollywood. Ginger Rodgers could dance and act but her singing voice was light But Sutton does ALL THREE so, so well.

And Nathan Lane. He would be a star in ANY era. He reminds me of Jimmy Savo, who was a beloved Broadway star in the 1930's. He was a clown who could sing - and that's Nathan. Lane is probably closer to Bert Lahr or Ed Wynn. Or Bob Hope. How can you look at him and not want to smile?
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622 http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#22

re: Which Performers Would Best Fit in the Golden Age?

Posted: 5/13/06 at 5:07pm

Brian Stokes Mitchell
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

← Back to Message Board

BroadwayWorld TV

View all Videos

Ticket Central
Ticket Central
Ticket Central
Hot Show
Tickets From $59
Hot Show
Tickets From $71
Hot Show
Tickets From $71
Hot Show
Tickets From $95
More Hot Shows Discounts
Recommended For You