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#76

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 5:38pm

I have a question - can we really consider people like Audrey Hepburn and Deborah Kerr for this catagory when their singing was completely dubbed by someone else? Great as these ladies were, it is not completely THEIR performance.

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#77

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 6:07pm

basically in order:

1. Judy Garland--The Wizard of Oz
2. Barbra Streisand--Funny Girl
3. Julie Andrews--The Sound of Music
4. Liza Minnelli--Cabaret
5. James Cagney--Yankee Doodle Dandy
6. Judy Garland--A Star is Born
7. Julie Andrews--Mary Poppins
8. Ewan MacGregor--Moulin Rouge
9. Rex Harrison--My Fair Lady
10. Jennifer Hudson--Dreamgirls

Honorable Mention to Audrey Hepburn (My Fair Lady), Natalie Wood (West Side Story), and Marni Nixon (for both)

#78

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 6:27pm

Catherine Zeta Jones - Chicago
Julie Andrews - Sound of Music
Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins
J. Hud - Dreamgirls
Bette Midler - Gypsy (small screen, I know)
Barbra - Funny Girl
Audra - Annie (small screen)
Liza - Cabaret
Bernadette Peters - Cinderella (I REALLY like TV musicals)
Queen Latifa - Chicago

You look absolutely terrific, honestly.

Updated On: 3/31/08 at 06:27 PM

#79

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 7:02pm

No particular order: Whether 'tis best or not - c'est favorites:

Julie Andrews: Sound of Music
Ann Miller: On the Town/Kiss Me Kate - take your pick
Gene Kelly: Singing in the Rain
Stubby Kaye: Guys and Dolls
Gwen Verdon: Damn Yankees
Judy Garland: Meet Me In St. Louis
William Daniels: 1776
Liza Minelli: Cabaret
Barbra Streisand: Funny Girl
Robert Morse: How to Succeed

and a bonus: Julie Newmar in Lil Abner

#80

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 7:17pm

More than Ten and not in order:
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Adam Pascal - Rent
Rosario Dawson - Rent
Nicole Kidman -Moulin Rouge
Catherine Zeta Jones - Chicago
Matthew Broderick - The Music Man
John Travolta - Grease
Olivia Newton John - Grease
Richard Beymer - West Side Story
Rita Moreno - West Side Story
Amy Adams - Enchanted
James Marsden - Hairspray /Enchanted
Elijah Kelly - Hairspray
Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray
Tim Curry - Rocky Horror

#81

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 9:45pm

Would Audrey's performance of the song "Moon River" (Breakfast at Tiffany's) count for being on a top ten? Definitely one of my favorite song moments on screen.

As for the others:

*Glen Hansard: Once (ok, not a typical "musical" but it's still amazing)
*Johnny Depp: Sweeney Todd
*Tim Curry: Annie
*Judy Garland: Meet Me In St. Louis
*Susan Sarandon: Rocky Horror
*Mark Lester: Oliver!
*Ewan McGregor: Moulin Rouge!
*Jodi Benson: The Little Mermaid
*Gene Kelly: Singin In the Rain
*Danny Elfman: The Nightmare Before Christmas

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#82

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 9:54pm

Wow. Susan Sarandon merits a mention for "Rocky Horror", but Tim Curry gets his for..."Annie"? For real?

No criticism intended, honestly. But while I enjoyed Tim in "Annie", I thought his performance in "Rocky Horror" was truly phenomenal.

#83

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 10:09pm

Oh I love both his performances. I just grew up watching (and loving) his Rooster more so then his sweet transvestite! But I could be really off kilter and add his performance as John Silver from Muppet Treasure Island into the mix; but that seems to be a bit off base...

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#84

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 10:24pm

But I could be really off kilter and add his performance as John Silver from Muppet Treasure Island into the mix; but that seems to be a bit off base...

Not to me.

#85

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 10:24pm

In no order:

Tim Curry as "Dr. Frank N. Furter" in THE ROCKY HORROR PICUTRE SHOW
Liza Minnelli as "Sally Bowles" in CABARET
Kermit the Frog as himself in THE MUPPET MOVIE
William Finley as "Winslow" in PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
William Daniles as "John Adams" in 1776
Judy Garland as "Dorothy Gale" in THE WIZARD OF OZ
Whoopi Goldberg as "Delores VanCartier" in SISTER ACT
Toni Collette as "Carla" in CONNIE AND CARLA
Lena Horne as "Glinda" in THE WIZ
John Cameron Mitchell as "Hedwig" in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

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#86

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 11:34pm

No order. . .

Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Ellen Greene - Little Shop Of Horrors
Elijah Kelley - Hairspray
John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig And The Angry Inch
Tim Curry - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Rick Moranis - Little SHop Of Horrors
Liza Minnelli - Cabaret
Joel Grey - Cabaret

Updated On: 3/31/08 at 11:34 PM

#87

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 3/31/08 at 11:43pm

obscure, but great: Christopher Walken in "Pennies from Heaven"

#88

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/1/08 at 12:37pm

In no particular order:

Judy Garland in "Wizard of Oz"
Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl"
Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music"
Gene Kelly in "Singing in the Rain"
Olivia Newton John in "Grease" (A sentimental choice)
Rita Moreno in "West Side Story"
Liza Minelli in "Caberet"
Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins"
Audrey Hepburn/Marni Nixon in "My Fair Lady"
Julie Andrews in "Mary Poppins"

#89

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/1/08 at 5:45pm

What a trip down memory lane, I want to go rent all these movies and see them again.

I would add Lena Horn in Stormy Weather.

#90

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:01pm

The Rada dance sequence with the song Loli Phabay in Tabor Ukhodit v Nebo (sung by the actress Svetlana Toma and on-screen chorus)
The entire film Latcho Drom
Marni Nixon My Fair Lady, The King and I, West Side Story Rita Moreno in West Side Story, too, but I'm not sure who her singing voice was.
Debbie Reynolds in How the West Was Won (I'm reminded of this with the upcoming Blu-ray release).
Robert Preston The Music Man
Larisa Guzeyeva's song and dances and Nikita Mikhalkov's song "The Romani Road" in A Cruel Romance (Zhestokiy romans)
The Vengo dance sequences.
The second "Tour of Greece" sequence in Rembetiko

There are a lot of good ones already mentioned, I'm trying to list a few that are not already given attention here, plus some "agreed on".

#91

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:24pm

10)Gerad Buttler P.O.T.O
9) Rene Zelwigger Chicago

Judy Garland: The Wizard of Oz
7) Amy Adam. Enchanted
6)Olivia Newton Jon Grease
5) John Travolta Grease
4) Catherine Zeta Jones: Chicago
3) Helena Boheme Carter. Sweeney Todd
2) Johnny Depp. Sweeney Tod
1) Nikki Blonsky. Hairspray

#92

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:28pm

Updated On: 5/8/09 at 04:28 PM

#93

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:43pm

Okay, my top 10, in no particular order:

Joel Grey, Cabaret
Liza Minnelli, Cabaret
Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis/Wizard of Oz
Yul Brynner, The King and I
Shirley Jones, Oklahoma!/Carousel/the Music Man
Gordon McRae, Carousel (in particular)/Oklahoma!
Julie Andrews, the Sound of Music/Mary Poppins
Christopher Plummer, The Sound of Music
Robert Preston, The Music Man

And to Krissy, who said:
Marni Nixon My Fair Lady, The King and I, West Side Story Rita Moreno in West Side Story, too, but I'm not sure who her singing voice was.

Rita Moreno sang her own role in West Side Story. She was in the West End production of Sunset Boulevard and does shows at Feinstein's among other venues.

"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.

Updated On: 4/30/08 at 04:43 PM

#94

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:51pm

I must add Irene Dunne, Charles Winninger, Allan Jones and Paul Robeson in the James Whale's Show Boat (1936)

#95

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 4:54pm

Rita Moreno didn't do all of her own singing in WEST SIDE STORY. She sings "America" obviously, but it is someone named Betty Wand doing "A Boy Like That."

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#96

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 7:35pm

1.Patti LuPone- Sweeney Todd in Concert
2.Liza Minelli- Cabaret
3.Joanna Gleason- Into the Woods
4.Catherine Zeta-Jones- Chicago
5.Bette Midler- The Rose
6.Carol Burnett- Annie
7.George Hearn- Sweeney Todd in Concert
8.Gary Beach- The Producers
9.Lesley Ann Warren- Victor/ Victoria
10.Marnie Nixon/Audrey Hepburn- My Fair Lady
11.Viviane Blaine- Guys and Dolls

and an honorable mention for Jim Sturgess in Across the Universe... I know, I know... but he's got a great voice... not top 10 but great voice...

and a little "hehe" for those of you who put Helena Bonham Carter... and I hope you get your hearing back soon, as the woman can't sing for ****... she murdered the role (no pun intended)... you're entitled to your opinions... I've just gotta voice mine... She. Sucks.

Updated On: 4/30/08 at 07:35 PM

#97

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 8:12pm

No order

Queen Latifah in Chicago/Hairspray
Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music
Stockard Channing in Grease
Jesse L. Martin in Rent
Joe Anderson in Across The Universe
Julie Garland in A Star Is Born
Ray Bolger in The Wizard Of Oz
Robin Williams in Aladdin (I know it's animated, but it IS a musical, and he was amazing)
Jenifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
Jean Hagan in Singing in the Rain

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#98

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 8:50pm

Finally registered just to give my 2 cents...

Shani Wallis in Oliver
Sally Anne Howes in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Topol in Fiddler on the Roof
Julie Andrews in Sound of Music
Vanessa Redgrave in Camelot
Cast of Across the Universe (Hell, if Xanadu counts... ;0)
Gordon McCrea(Sp?) in Oklahoma
Shirley Jones in Music Man
Robert Preston in Music Man
Ron Moody in Oliver

#99

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 9:08pm

OK Madcap, I'll be the first to defend the choice of Bonham Carter being on MY list. I agree that her singing left a lot to be desired, but she did give it an effort. I put her on my list because on each viewing of the film (I'm at 5 now), I find some new nuance to her ACTING performance that I missed before. I feel that she entirely inhabited the role and made it completely her own. I stand by my assertion that it's one of the greatest acting performances in movie musical history. I understand those who disagree, as I myself sometimes wonder what it would have been like if an actual singer had been cast for this role. I guess we'll never know...

#100

RE: Top Ten

Posted: 4/30/08 at 9:24pm

...her facial expression didn't change. for the entire movie. She didn't convey at ALL the fact that Mrs. Lovett is MADLY in love with Sweeney Todd and, in fact orchestrated the entire plot so that maybe one day she could get him to look at her like he loved her. hbc did not in any way convey that. if you've ever been truly in love, you know the lengths that you would go to just to have whomever it is look at you the way you feel for them inside. i didn't feel anything for hbc in the movie. patti lupone (only looking at acting) made you fall in love with a woman who chops people up and makes them into meatpies!!!! THAT is acting.

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