Who would you want as your broadway best friends? — Page 2

I feel creepy answering this but I'm going to anyway.

Kelli O'Hara
Patti LuPone
Jessie Mueller
Kristin Chenoweth
Laura Benanti

Megan Hilty
Nathan Lane
Angela Lansbury
Carol Burnett
Jeremey Jordan

and of course
STEPHEN SONDHEIM...:)

So difficult to limit to 10...

Gavin Creel
Jonathan Groff
Jackie Hoffman
Kyle Dean Massey
Gavin Creel
Celia Kenan-Bolger
Jan Maxwell
Audra McDonald
Steven Pasquale
Donna Murphy
Charlie Williams
Santino Fontana
Gavin Creel
Tyne Daly
Taylor Trensch
Jeremy Jordan
Mary Louise Wilson
Bobby Steggert
Cheyenne Jackson
Judith Light
Norm Lewis
Kelli O'Hara
Charles Busch
Josh Lamon
Brandon Rubendall
Bernadette Peters
Jim Newman
Gavin Creel
Kristine Nielsen
Veanne Cox
Julia Murney
Linda Lavin
Michael Beresse
Karen Ziemba
Howard McGillan
Emily Skinner
Josh Young
Ryan Steele and Matt Doyle (must count as one)
Joe Mantello and Matthew Risch (same as RS and MD)
Carol Channing
Matt Loehr
Rachel Bay Jones
Heidi Blickenstaff
Andrew Samonsky
Wade McCollum
Robert Joy
Judy Kaye
and Gavin Creel

And, oh, Elaine Stritch is so, so missed. Hunter Ryan Herdlicka is a fortunate man.


Well, that was fun. I'm sure I've missed someone. So many intelligent, talented, charismatic, beautiful, wonderfully nice people on the New York stage these days. This is just the beginning.

Many of mine would be Phantom connected, because I'm trying to start a Phantom-related blog and web site called "All Things Phantom." (It would be up and running already if life didn't keep getting in the way). In no particular order:

1) Norm Lewis, because he's a fantastic performer, because I love his baritone voice, and because he seems like a really nice guy.
2) Chuck Cooper, because I knew his wife quite well in high school, and I'd love to hang out with both of them.
3) Chet Walker, because I went to elementary school and, I think, junior high and high school, with him, when he was known as "Chester."
4) Tam Mutu, because I think he's got a gorgeous voice, because he's going to be really big (I hope), and because he played the Phantom in LND.
5) James Monroe Iglehart, because I just love his name, because, based on his performance at the Tony awards, I'll bet he's a hoot, and because I never had a friend like him.
6) Hugh Panaro, because of his Phantom experience and because he's an animal rights person.
7) Michelle McConnell and several of the other Carlotta Giudicellis, because they seemed like very nice people when I met them at the stage door, and because they might be able to teach me to sing.
Christian Sebek, because I think he's the best Ubaldo Piangi I've seen, because he's got a gorgeous voice, and because we short folks have to stick together.
9) Sir Patrick Stewart, because he's Sir Patrick Stewart and because he played Jean-Luc Picard, my second-favorite ST character, with Spock being first.
10) Idina Menzel, because, despite wanting a voice more like an opera singer's (see #7), I suspect my voice is more suited to Idina's type of songs, and she might be able to teach me. Besides, she could help me sort out the timelines in If/Then.

BTW, I don't consider this a creepy thread unless someone intends to stalk people on their list, God forbid.

Audrey (who included some of the above with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek, and included other folks that I really would love to know).

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Wow Emily! No Carolee?

Corey cott
Patina Miller
Kate Baldwin
Laura Osnes

Namo, your Jerry Herman quip went completely over my head. (I know, I know: "No surprise there.") Care to give me a hint? You wrote:

"Bring elbow-length veterinary gloves, Fantod."

P.S. to Fantod, I met Herman briefly decades ago and he was a lovely man, but he and I have a close friend in common who swears he may be the nicest man in show business.