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[ShineOn]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:20pm

Musicals: Side Show (shhh), Company, Urinetown, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me Kate

Songs: "Maybe I Like It This Way", "Surabya Santa", "Who Will Love Me As I Am" (it still brings a tear to my eye... don't make fun), ANYTHING Porter... god, I have too many favorite songs to list.

Play: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Composer: Cole Porter!!, Sondheim, Henry Krieger, Jason Robert Brown, Gershwin

Actors: Marc Kudisch, Norm Lewis

Actresses: Emily Skinner, Julia Murney, Carolee Carmello

Playwright: Tennessee Williams

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:20pm

Favorite Broadway actress..Nicole Kidman???

[TheNPH]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:24pm

The Blue Room... with Nicole Kidman

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:35pm

Favorite musical: Rent, A Chorus Line, Aida, Wicked, Grease, West Side Story, Godspell; Hairspray; Sideshow; Jane Eyre

Favorite songs: Seasons of Love; What I Did for Love; Hard Candy Christmas; Corner of the Sky; Stranger in This World; Suddenly Seymore; I Will Never Leave You

Favorite play: 'Night Mother

Favorite Composers: Schwartz,Sondheim,Kander & Ebb,Andrew Lippa

Favorite actors:James Barbour,Brian Stokes Mitchell,Harvey Fierstein

Favorite actresses: Bernadette Peters,Idina Menzel,Heather Headley

[cabarethed]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 1:28pm

Musicals - Cabaret, Hedwig, Taboo, Rocky Horror, Avenue Q, tick Tick Boom

Songs - far far far too many....I could listen to 30/90, I Don't Care Much, Freak, and Midnight Radio on repeat forever.

Plays - Proof, Take Me Out, Design for Living, 'Night Mother, Comedians

Composers - Kander & Ebb, Jonathan Larson

Actors - Raul Esparza, Matt McGrath, Denis O'Hare, Roger Bart

Actresses - Susan Egan, Amy Spanger, Katie Finneran, Idina Menzel

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 1:44pm

Musicals: CATS, Hairspray, Les Mis, The Last Five Years

Songs: Yeesh, if I listed them all we'd be here forever, so I'll try to limit myself to my top picks: La Vie Boheme, I Can Hear The Bells, Without Love, Memory, Still Hurting, The Next Ten Minutes, Being Alive, Run Freedom Run, Anytime (I Am There), If Ever I Would Leave You

Plays: Anything by Christopher Durang

Composers: Jason Robert Brown, Alain Boublib and Claude-Michel Schonberg, Kander and Ebb, Sondheim, Lerner and Loewe

Actors: Norbert Leo Butz, Gavin Creel, Colm Wilkinson, Hunter Foster

Actresses: Sutton Foster, Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Kerry Butler

Updated On: 6/17/04 at 01:44 PM

[KChenowethfan]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 8:12pm

Updated On: 2/24/08 at 08:12 PM

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 8:23pm

Musicals: (in order) Les Miz (duh), Wicked, AIDA, J&H, Ave Q

Songs: On My Own (Les Miz), Prologue(Les Miz), One Day More (Les Miz),Wicked Witch of the East (Wicked) Defying Gravity (Wicked), No One Mourns the Wicked (Wicked), Your Work and Nothing More (J&H), Anything from Ave Q

Plays: Arsenic and Old Lace

Composers: Boubiol and Schonberg, Schwartz, Webber

Actors: John Tartaglia, Christoper Fitzgerald, Micheal Ball

Actresses: Lea Salonga, Frances Ruffelles, Idina Menzel, Sutton Foster

[ShineOn]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 8:24pm

*gasps* SOMEONE else put Emily down! *dies of heart failure*

And seriously... can I just add Idina's name to my list just to fit in? Pretty please?

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 8:25pm

Okay, I'm gonna try to keep it to one per category;

Musical: Assassins

Songs: That's What He Said

Play: Angels in America

Composer: Jason Robert Brown

Actor: Deven May

Actress: Carolee Carmello

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 8:33pm

lol, I tired that, and look how far it got me!

[guttertanzer]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 8:46pm

Musicals: oh so many but overall favourite: CATS!

Songs: All Hedwig, "Little People" Les Mis, "I Don't Care Much" and "Tomorrow Belongs to Me (reprise)" Cabaret, "Heaven on Their Minds" JCS, the list goes on...

Plays: Neil Simon's "The Good Doctor"

Composers: Lloyd-Webber, Alan Menken

Actors: Raul Esparza

Actresses: Daphne Rubin-Vega, Liza May Minnelli

Playwright: Oscar Wilde

Updated On: 6/17/04 at 08:46 PM

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 10:19pm

Here are mine:

1)Favorite musical-- All time: 'Les Miz'. Currently: 'Avenue Q'

2)Favorite songs-- All the classics from Les Miz ('One Day More', 'On My Own', 'Bring Him Home', 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables'), 'Origin of Love' from Hedwig,

3)Favorite play-- Classics: 'Macbeth'/'King Lear'/'Hamlet'. Modern: 'Angels in America', 'The Normal Heart', 'Death of a Salesman'

4)Favorite Composers-- Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil

5)Favorite actors-- Plays: Ian McKellen. Musicals: Colm Wilkinson, Michael Arden, Michael Ball, J-Tart.

6)Favorite actresses-- Musicals: Lea Salonga, Heather Headley.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 10:47pm

Favorite Musicals: "Anything Goes" and "The Last 5 Years"

Favorite Plays: "ART" and "Apartment 3G"

Favorite Composer: Jason Robert Brown


I have too many favorite songs to list.

I feel weird posting favorite actors and actresses, as I would be guessing based on OBCs, so I'm just leaving that alone.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 10:29am

1)Favorite musical--Wicked, Avenue Q, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Phantom of the Opera, A Chorus Line, Chicago

2)Favorite songs--No Good Deed, Defying Gravity, For Good, Jimmy, Gimme Gimme, One, What I Did For Love

3)Favorite play--Frozen

4)Favorite Composers--Jeanine Tesori, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz

5)Favorite actors--Hugh Panaro, Gavin Creel, Hunter Foster, Hugh Jackman

6)Favorite actresses--Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth (sorry!), Idina Menzel, Kerry Butler

Bernie

[meagan9848]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 11:00am

Musicals: Avenue Q, Godspell, Hairspray, A New Brain, Ragtime, Rent, Scarlet Pimpernel, Wicked, Wild Party

Songs: This list could go on for days...Life of the Party, Sucks to be Me, Defying Gravity, For Good, Take Me or Leave me, What You Own, Taylor the Latte Boy, My New Philosophy, Till We Reach That Day, Mama I'm a Big Girl Now, What I Did For Love, I'll Forget You, No Day But Today, My New Philosophy, I Go to Rio

Play: Give and Take

Composer: Larson, Lippa, Porter, Schwartz, Sondheim

Actors: Norbert Leo Butz, Matt Caplan, Hunter Foster, Joel Grey, Hugh Jackman, Adam Pascal, Carey Schields, Douglass Sills, Anthony Rapp, B. D. Wong

Actresses: Kristin Chenoweth, Linda Eder, Sutton Foster, Heather Headley, Idina Menzel, Sherie Rene Scott


To the Cheno haters, all names are alphabetical

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 12:36pm

Musicals - Rent, Urinetown, JCS

Songs -"I Am What I Am" from "La Cage Aux Falles" and "With One Look" from "Sunset Boulevard"

Plays - Angels in America:Perestroika

Composers - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown

Actors - Hunter Foster, Raul Esparza, Michael Cerveris

Actresses - Patti Lupone, Sutton Foster

Playwright - Tony Kushner

Posted: 6/18/04 at 1:19pm

1)Favorite musical--Wicked, Millie, Jekyll and Hyde, Les Miz

2)Favorite songs--Defying Gravity, Popular, No Good Deed, Forget About the Boy, A New Life, Someone Like You, Gimme Gimme, Not for the Life of Me, etc. (soooo many!)

3)Favorite play-- Noises Off

4)Favorite Composers--Andrew Lloyd Webber, Boublil and Schoenberg, Frank Wildhorn, Stephen Shwartz

5)Favorite actors--Christian Borle, Gavin Creel, Hunter Foster,Hugh Jackman

6)Favorite actresses--Sutton Foster, Linda Eder, Kristin Chenoweth, Bernadette Peters

[Crazy4MattMorrison52]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 8:43pm

Here's mine--

1)Favorite musical--HAIRSPR
2)Favorite songs-wAYithoutlove..pretty lies and safe in the city lately..also summer nights,the role of a life time and touch my soul

3)Favorite play--never seen one

4)Favorite Composers--marc shaiman and scott wittman

5)Favorite actor- matt morrison

6)Favorite actress-marissa jaret winokur

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 9:07pm

C4MM52, did I just read that right?
You have NEVER SEEN A PLAY?!?!?!

Oh no.
Having a spaz attack.
GO SEE A PLAY!!!!
NOW!!!!!
I COMMAND YOU!!!!

It's just like a musical, except people don't periodically burst into song.
Like live movies.
You can do it.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 9:16pm

Somethin' where peoples don't sang? That's crazy talk!

[Crazy4MattMorrison52]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 9:20pm

no i never seen a play but i have plansto see a rasin in the sun and the normal heart

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 9:21pm

I know it's hard to fathom, Kristin...er, Matt, but it's true.
Just imagine a music-less musical.
Crazy though it may seem, they're really rather popular.

Y'know. 'mong dem city folk.

[broadwaybaby486]

Posted: 6/18/04 at 9:29pm

~MuSiCaLs- Gypsy, Les Miserables, Wicked, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Phantom of the Opera, Big River, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Godspell, Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun

~SoNgS- Love Look Away (Flower Drum Song), Some People and Rose's Turn (Gypsy), The Grass is Always Greener (The World Goes Round), Unexpected Song and Come Back w/ the Same Look in Your Eyes (Song and Dance), Look What Happened to Mabel (Mack and Mabel), I Dremed a Dream, Do You Hear the People Sing, Stars and One Day More (Les Miserables), Popular, For Good and Defying Gravity (Wicked), Muddy Water and The Crossing (Big River), Born to Entertain (Ruthless), No One is Alone, Last Midnight and Children Will Listen (Into the Woods), Everybody Says Don't and See What it Gets You (Anyone Can Whistle), Memory (Cats), Being Alive (Company), Broadway Baby (Follies), The Quest (Man of LaMancha), Something Good (The Sound of Music)

~CoMpOsEr- Stephen Sondheim!!!

~PlAyS- Our Town, Art, Over the River and Through the Woods, and The Man Who Came to Dinner

~AcToRs- Brian Stokes Mitchell, John Dossett, Mandy Patinkin, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Terrence Mann, Colm Wilkinson, and Hugh Panaro

~AcTrEsSeS- Bernadette Peters, Angela Lansbury, Marin Mazzie, Bebe Neuwirth, Karen Ziemba, Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, and Susan Egan