Me - Derrick Trumbley from Spelling Bee Chi-town.
i think we've had a thread like this before, but Tim Howar, hands down.
Brian Stokes Mitchell- hands down !!!
also of note-- Curtis Holbrook, Robin De Jesus and
John Tartaglia.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Helen Hayes was my JAM.
Me? James Barbour, but that was YEARS ago, I was just a little thing.
BTW, what has Derrick Trumbley done on Broadway?
Ok, I should change that. Ha! He was still the nicest.
Technically, that wasn't a tour. Why not just change it to "nicest actor"?
OK.
Benjamin Eakeley, Edmund Bagnell and David Hess win for me.
All three genuinely nice guys.
Jon Peterson.
One of the nicest fellows you'd ever want to meet.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
Carolee Carmelo is the JAM!
Most Xanadu cast are goober in person.
J*
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
Zoe Caldwell after Medea. At the last performance (I saw it 4 times), she made a lovely curtain speech and was most gracious to her fans afterwards. But the thing that sticks out in my mind was a young (maybe 8 or 9) boy who was obviously with his parents and who obviously was way out of his depth with Medea. When he got to Ms. Caldwell, he asked in all innocence, "Are you in this show?" Rather than the expected reaction (having seen her blow the roof off in the play), she looked at the boy with these magnificent eyes, stroked his head and purred "You have the most beautiful hair I've ever seen." I melted on the spot and have never forgotten her since.
I have a few:
Brian Stokes Mitchell
John Lloyd Young
Billy Crudup
Kristin Chenoweth
Cheyenne Jackson
Adam Pascal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Sutton Foster
Gavin Creel
Tim Curry
Angela Lansbury - very gracious
Anthony Rapp
David Burnham
Stephanie J Block
Jonathon Groff
Blake Bashoff
Kate Shindle
Nikki Snelson
Stanley Bahorek
Christian Anderson
Sarah Stiles
Cheynne Jackson
Kerry Butler
I keep adding names as I see more shows, it's so hard to pick just one when alot are so kind.
Updated On: 4/18/08 at 01:32 PM
I was hoping Angela Lansbury would be nice and I was happy to find out that she is.
Ed, that story is great. I've met Caldwell and she was very nice, but your story beats everything.
My nicest: Kathy Bates after Night Mother. We're both from Memphis, and after I got her autograph and walked away, she called my name, came after me and talked about Memphis and Broadway shows for over thirty minutes.
Chorus Member Joined: 5/23/06
Shannon Durig by a mile. I'll add Hayley Podschun, Nikki Snelson, and Alexa Vega to that list as well. I'm sure there's more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
Karen Ziemba (see pic at left)
Charles Busch
Three way tie Rosie, Patti, and Robin DeJesus
Michael McCarthy, Randel Keith and Terrence Mann (Les Mis)
Sean Mahon (Seafarer)
John Cullum (Urinetown)
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