Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

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Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:26pm

Today for Mother's Day, livejournal's daily question was:
Who is your favorite mother (the character, not the actress) from television or the movies?

So that made me think of some of the great characters that are mothers from Broadway plays and musicals.


My favorites that I can think of right now:
1. Rose Hovick from Gypsy.
2. Violet Weston from August: Osage County.
3. Diana Goodman from Next to Normal.
4. The Witch from Into the Woods.
5. Kate Keller from All My Sons.


And I know there are a ton more. So who are some of your favorites?

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:28pm

Thelma Cates, from 'night, Mother

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:30pm

Do pregnant women count?

1. Diana - Next to Normal
2. Barbara - August: Osage County
3. Sally - Cabaret
4. Jeanie - Hair
5. Wendla - Spring Awakening
6. Stella - A Streetcar Named Desire
7. Rose - Gypsy
8. Caroline - Caroline, or Change
9. Dot - Sunday in the Park With George

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#4

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:31pm

In terms of parenting skills or just favorite character?

For the former I'd have to go with Fantine, but for the latter it's gotta be Madame Rose.

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#5

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:32pm

Y'all have a weird concept of "mother"! :)

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:36pm

I based my choices on the character, not on their parenting skills, haha! I kind of should've mentioned that in my original post.

Ah, I forgot Barbara from August:OC! (Thanks for the reminder, Glindathegood22). Barb and Vy are by far my favorite characters from that show.

Updated On: 5/10/09 at 07:36 PM

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:38pm

I do love me some Mattie Fae.

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:39pm

Gotta throw my hat in for Trina from Falsettos!

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 7:41pm

MOTHER who bore me.

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 8:15pm

5. Wendla - Spring Awakening

Didn't she die before giving birth?

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#11

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 8:20pm

Edna Turnblad!
And also Amanda Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie

#12

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 8:25pm

The Baker's Wife - Into the Woods

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#13

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 8:29pm

I would want Edna Turnblad as MY mother.

blaxx:

Ever here of a spoiler alert?

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#14

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 8:30pm

Christiane Noll in RAGTIME.

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 8:37pm

Rose Hovick
Edith Bouvier Beale
Dot
The Witch

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:08pm

"blaxx:

Ever here of a spoiler alert? "

Is it really a spoiler when the majority of people here already know it?

Anyway, I've got to say Edna from Hairspray takes the cake as my favorite.

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:09pm

Billy Elliot's

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#18

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:11pm

Margaret Johnson.

#19

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:11pm

Big Edie!

Also, Margaret from Piazza.

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:32pm

I have to say, just in general, Marmee from LITTLE WOMEN is probably my favorite mother and Mother from RAGTIME.

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#21

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:35pm

Hannah Pitt from Angels in America.

#22

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:41pm

Mama Morton from Chicago
Mother Burnside from Mame
Mother Superior from Nunsense
Mrs. Higgins from My Fair Lady

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 9:55pm

blaxx:

Ever here of a spoiler alert?

No, but I HEAR of one.

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#24

re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 10:16pm

Lily--The Secret Garden

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re: Who's your favorite mother? (from a play or musical)

Posted: 5/10/09 at 10:39pm

Marmee from Little Women

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