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Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#75re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 4:15pm
Yes-but in between those years she was not consistently on Broadway-she was in LA pursuing a TV/film career.
The last ten years have really seen her career take off on Broadway.
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#76re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 4:26pm
Bernadette's star is fading? Is that why she's selling out concerts around the country - because of that fading star?
I say Ms. Peters.
#77re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 4:35pm
Currently? Ebersole, but Liza and Julie are the 1st ladies of American Musical.
"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-
#78re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 4:48pm
Enough with this foolishness! I'll tell you the First Lady of the American Musical is, ME, Little Edie Beale. And don't you goddamn forget it! Da-da-da-da-da!
#79re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:48pmMmm ok.
"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-
#80re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 6:45pm
Patti LuPone
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-John Patrick Shanley
#81re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 8:10pmPatti LuPone
:D
#82re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 8:20pm
"Current" doesn't just mean of this season. I believe the original poster just meant a contemporary performer, not necessarily someone whose particularly having success recently.
While Christine Ebersole has a bright theatrical future ahead of her, one big performance does not a legend make (I'd say the same about Victoria Clark, whose also been mentioned in this thread.) Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone have had successful longevity over a vast period of time. They are true "first ladies" of musical theater.
Though people like Ebersole, Audra McDonald, and Sutton Foster are well on their way to cementing such a permanent place in musical theater history, they're not there yet (though Audra is pretty damn close.)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 6/16/07 at 08:20 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#83re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 8:47pm
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#84re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 9:47pmBernadette, without a shadow of a doubt.
#85re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 9:50pmUgh, enough with Patti LuPone.
I chose, and my world was shaken. So what?
The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.
Clara's Pony
Featured Actor Joined: 6/14/07
#86re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 9:52pmWithout a doubt the current 1st lady is Ebersole, won't last long I imagine (remember Victoria Clark?). I don't think she'll ever equal the success of GG again.
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#87re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:01pmPeters! Although the other four big names mentioned are just trailing right behind her.
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#88re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:12pm
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
#89re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:19pm
(remember Victoria Clark?). I don't think she'll ever equal the success of GG again.
- Um Victoria Clark recently just played one of the greatest post Golden Age female roles - SALLY DURANT PLUMMER in FOLLIES (one of the greatest musicals of all time.) And she received rave reviews. The production may transfer to Broadway, which will without a doubt lead to another Tony nomination for Clark.
You make it sound like she died.
Updated On: 6/16/07 at 10:19 PM
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#90re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:23pm
Someone I know (not an actor-hates theater as a matter of fact!) says "the best is yet to come" and follows this motto.
That said-I think Christine Ebersole will have her choice of roles once GG is over for her. And one may just equal it. Who knows?
Totally agree about Victoria Clark's reviews for Follies, and the possible transfer.
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
#91re: Who is the Current 1st Lady of the American Musical?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 10:28pm
To be honest, I don't see Ebersole being someone who plans on making the extent of her career off theater.
While I agree that she'll have some marvelous theatrical oppertunities available to her after the success of "Grey Gardens," I think she'll try and use said achievements to break back into film and television.
She only left LA because she wasn't getting the roles she felt she deserved, so one can assume she'd return if projects of her standard were now open to her.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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