on-stage chemistry
on-stage chemistry
#1on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 3:31am
who do you think has the best chemistry together on stage?
not "love" chemistry, but ya know the kind of chemistry that makes the show just that much better.
for me:
adam pascal and anthony rapp (rent)
kristin chenoweth and idina menzel(wicked)
FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#2re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 7:07am
Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson-Grey Gardens
Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman-Xanadu
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#2re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 8:13am
The LES MIZ cast as a whole each time I've seen it
Most of the Phantom's and Christine's I'ves seen have "it." It's supposed to be there between RAOUL and Christine, too, and vene more, but I can say that each and every time I have seen the show- all 12- there was more between Erik and his young soprano. The Christine and Raoul romance was flat and there because it had to be IMO.
Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in anything they do together 
Adam and Anthony in RENT
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
MCfan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
#3re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 8:22am
If you get a good Raoul, there can be chemistry, all right. The first Christine and Raoul I ever saw were Teri Bibb and Keith Buterbaugh at The Kennedy Center in D.C. They had it in spades.
Although I'm always a little reluctant to jump into discussions of chemistry. So much of it really seems to be in the eye of the beholder. I've seen so many people bubbling over the chemistry between so-and-so and whatsisname on any given show, while I'm sitting there trying to stifle a yawn, that I think sometimes -- not all the time, but sometimes -- we see chemistry where we want to see it.
Tom148502
Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/07
#4re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 9:35am
Lauren Bacall and Harry Guardino in Woman on the Year.
Judy Holliday and Sydney Chaplin in Bells Are Ringing
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Visit
#5re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 9:36amStephanie J. Block and Hadley Fraser in The Pirate Queen.
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#6re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 9:40am
Both casts of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Lithgow/Butz, Pryce/D'Arcy James).
The entire cast of the Noises Off revival.
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#7re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:15amStephanie J Block and David Burnham in WICKED. There ALAYM was hot!
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#8re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:18am
Lithgow/Butz - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Jackson/Butler - Xanadu
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snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#9re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:22am
-Def Adam and Anthony in RENT
-Idina and Norbert in Wicked (I don't know WHAT it was about them, but their ALAYM.. litterally felt like sex haha)
-Stephen Lynch and Laura Benanti in Wedding Singer (they have amazing chemistry even just on the RECORDING. ridiculous.)
-Alice Ripley and Brian d'Arcy James in Next to Normal (truly, they are AMAZING together)
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#10re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 10:26am
I saw Norbert Leo Butz and Jonathan Pryce together in DRS and I thought they worked great together on-stage.
And I have to second Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman in Xanadu. Amazing!
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#11re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 11:42amLong time ago, but Chita and Gwen were awesome together. Also I enjoyed Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat in Annie Get Your Gun and of course, the best chemistry ever was Matthew and Nathan...
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#12re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 12:14pmPast week I saw Little Mermaid and Sean and Sierra have a lot of chemistry and all time they are kissing and smiling, very sweet.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#13re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 12:27pm
Shannon Durig and Andrew Rannells in Hairspray
Karen Ziemba and Jason Danieley in Curtains
"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball
#14re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:09pm
oh, it totally makes a difference. Daphne Rubin Vega and Antonique may not be my favorite Mimis but Daphne-Adam and in close second Tim-Antonique is hard to beat.
everyone keeps mentioning Adam and Anthony, i mean I guess they have good chemistry since they have a history and all but I personally didn't think it was anything extraordinary (not to say its bad or anything)
I think Wilson and Jesse have great chemistry as do Justin and Marcus.
The reason I've only mentioned Rent is because i've seen so many different actors in the roles and mix and matched pairs whereas for other shows i may have felt chemistry but have nothing to compare it to.
<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
Updated On: 2/27/08 at 01:09 PM
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#15re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:28pmI second Gwen Verdon & Chita Rivera. I got to see them together in the OBC of Chicago, and I don't think that the chemistry they had together has been topped. Their "Nowadays" finale was a clinic in perfect timing and synchronicity.
#16re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 1:33pm
The LES MIZ cast as a whole each time I've seen it
I wish I could say that!
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#17re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 2:44pm
I should have added NLB and Lithgow in DRS 
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#18re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/27/08 at 7:24pm
Stephanie J. Block and David Burnham
Stephanie J. Block and Annaleigh Ashford
Stephanie J. Block and Cristy Candler
Stephanie J. Block and everyone she's onstage with. LOL
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dramagirl487
Featured Actor Joined: 2/19/08
#19re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 2/29/08 at 11:59pm
Adam Pascal and Jesse L. Martin
i thought Laura Bell Bundy and her fellow Delta Nu sisters were good
and the Eponine/Marius i saw were amazing. i regret to say i didn't get a chance to learn their names, both were understudies, but i saw the show late June of 2007.
WORST chemistry?
Declan Bennett and Tamyra Gray
honestly, Tamyra/Adam didn't have chemistry until the end portion of adam's run in RENT
#21re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 3/1/08 at 9:32pm
Tamyra doesn't have chemistry with anyone. Not with Adam, not with Jay, not with Declan, not with Tim.
Least charismatic Mimi I've seen.
Declan is fantastic with Caren Lyn Manuel though.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#22re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 3/1/08 at 9:35pm
Lane and Broderick, but only in The Producers.
In recent memory, Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, and Hank Azaria in Spamalot.
MaryLouise Wilson and Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens.
David Hyde Pierce and Jill Paice in Curtains.
#23re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 3/1/08 at 9:39pm
Roger Bart and Gary Beach (two of my all time faves so that might have something to do with it.
Adam Pascal and Daphne Rubin-Vega
Least chemistry? Jonathan Groff and Lea Michele
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#24re: on-stage chemistry
Posted: 3/1/08 at 9:42pm
Michael Arden and John Hill in Bare <33
(yes, the picture was necessary. hehe)
oh, and about Lea Michelle and Jon Groff:
It's funny, because sometimes I almost think that the reason they can come off as "not having chemistry" is because they're TOO comfortable with each other. I felt the same way about Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs when they were in Wicked together. Lea and Groff are SUCH close friends (to the point where Lea has said that they are like soul mates), and know each other SO well, that it kind of works against them on stage. You just don't really buy that they're two young kids getting to really know each other for the first time. Nothing seems.. new.. to them. So it's not so much that they don't have chemistry because they don't mesh well together, but rather that they mesh TOO well together. If that long ramble makes any sense at all.. haha
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
Updated On: 3/1/08 at 09:42 PM
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