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Who are Broadway's Gods???
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#25re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 3:56amLove has nothing to do with it, it's simply what a good wife should do.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#26re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 3:57amI called Vishnu last night and got the answering machine, it sounded just like the one in RENT - "SPEAK!"
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#27re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 3:57amThis could be the most preposterous threadjack EVER.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#28re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 3:58amI am fond of wives that eat the children and the regurgitate them. As I have done.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#29re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 3:59amBut, I mean, I suppose I probably shouldn't ask but, Do you think your wife would like, go on "FEAR FACTOR" for you and eat things like, well, reindeer nuggets and drink 100 year old nog too? She must be a GOOD wife then!!
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
#30re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 4:02ami forgot about Jennifer Hope Wills and Greg Edelman from "Wonderful Town"....you don't need to originate a role to be a "god" i am just saying who is a god to me. Brooke is a goddess to me. The way she acted in Wonderful Town was just amazing...no wonder why she got raves from every newspaper and increased the ticket sales. Anyhow...i am tired of sticking up for her.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#31re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 4:02am
Any wife that sips nog near me, must be sipping nog that is 1000 years of age or older.
I have chunks of GODs like Ares in my stool.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#32re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 4:03amOh my, now we are back talkin' shi - nevermind.
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
#33re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:40amDoesn't everyone know that Oprah is god!!
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#34re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:41amno randy, i think you mean Uma.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#35re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:50amWell maybe they both fight for the right.
#36re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 7:37am
Thespis. Greek Ghost of the Theatre.
And I think Anthony Rapp, Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Liza Minelli, Michael Crawford, and Michael Ball get that honor too.
Maybe Adam Pascal...give him a few more years...
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#37re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 8:09am
Rosie O'Donnell? Brooke Shields? VANESSA WILLIAMS????? Gods (or goddesses) of the theater????? Wow.
Oh--my picks: Chita Rivera, Bernadette Peters, Carol Channing, Harvey Fierstein, and when she was still alive, Gwen Virdon.
"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys
#38re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 11:51am
If we're only counting performers:
Gwen Verdon
Chita Rivera
Bernadette Peters
Carol Channing
Elaine Stritch
Jerry Orbach
Ethel Merman
Mandy Patinkin
Harvey Fierstein
Julie Andrews
Liza Minelli
Ben Vereen
Nathan Lane
Demi-Gods:
Marlon Brando
Barbara Streisand
Audra McDonald
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
Updated On: 12/11/05 at 11:51 AM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#39re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 11:58am
Pagan Gods
ALW
Wildhorn
Poster Emeritus
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#40re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:11pm
Ben Vereen
Colm Wilkinson
Anthony Rapp
Raul Esparza
#41re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:16pm
No, incendiary, Adam just thinks he's God. 
I kid, I kid.
#42re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 1:11pm
Brooke Sheilds and Rosie O'Donnell are NOT broadway gods. I repeat BROOKE SHEILDS and ROSIE O'DONNELL ARE NOT BROADWAY GODS. Reality check my friend...
Someofallthings really had it down so I'd have to agree except that:
Marlon Brando
Barbara Streisand
Audra McDonald
- I'd count those as gods too...not just demi's!!
Gwen Verdon
Chita Rivera
Bernadette Peters
Carol Channing
Elaine Stritch
Jerry Orbach
Ethel Merman
Mandy Patinkin
Harvey Fierstein
Julie Andrews
Liza Minnelli
Ben Vereen
Nathan Lane
Patti LuPone
I'd also add as Demi- Gods:
Donna Murphy
LaChanze
Rachel York
Victoria Clark (maybe)
Marin Mazzie
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
Updated On: 12/12/05 at 01:11 PM
#43re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:25pm
How could I forget La Stritch! Major Broadway God!
And of course Sondheim is the ruler of them all!
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Wicked_fan
Broadway Star Joined: 5/25/04
#44re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:35pm
What about Joel Grey?!?
Think Cabaret people!
and my personal pick of
Hugh Jackman...he's definitely a God-in-training...
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"
-Feste from "Twelfth Night"
#45re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:45pmMinnelli has two N's, people - always has. I wouldn't misspell the name of a god. Bad things happen when you piss them off.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#46re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 6:45pm
Wow, how could I forget Mr.Grey? Gotta love the MC of the MC's, I think his MC is the Ethel Merman' Mamma Rose of male actors.
Thanks for the reminder.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#47re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 7:04pm
I guess it depends just how far back you want to go. Here is my grab bag of names that you could call Broadway 'God's". These are all musical stars...
Merman
Jolson
Brice
Lawrence
Martin
Channing
Astaire (both)
Preston
Mostel
Verdon
Rivera
Streisand
Hearn
Mc Kechnie
Lane
Fierstein
Lansbury
Bailey
Orbach
Those are a few of my "God's" that immediately spring to mind. I'm bound to think of a few more.
#48re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 7:16pmStephen Sondheim is the God of Musical theater. But Bernadette Peters is his goddess.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#49re: Who are Broadway's Gods???
Posted: 12/11/05 at 9:17pm
Carol Channing
Chita Rivera
Julie Andrews
Angela Lansbury
Gwen Verdon
Patti LuPone
Ethel Merman
Liza Minnelli
Yul Brunner
Robert Preston
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Richard Kiley
Michael Crawford
Tommy Tune
John Lithgow
Updated On: 12/11/05 at 09:17 PM
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