Idina Menzel in Wicked and See What I Wanna See Raul Esparza in Company and Taboo Leenya Rideout in Cabaret and Company Fred Rose in Cabaret and Company Beth Leavel in 42nd Street and Drowsy Chaperone Lenny Wolpe - Little Shop of Horrors (tour), The Drowsy Chaperone Sarah Uriarte- Light in the Piazza and Taboo Michael Berresse - Light in the Piazza and A Chorus Line Deirdre Goodwin -- Chicago and A Chorus Line Troy Britton Johnson - Hairspray (tour) and Drowsy Chaperone
That's all I can think of now but I am sure there are tons of others.
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
Let's see... Late, great Laurie Beechman: Les Mis, Cats Christine Ebersole: Gore Vidal's the Best Man, 42nd Street, Grey Gardens (multiple times!) Norbert Leo Butz: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked Idina Menzel: See What I Wanna See, Wicked Daisy Egan: James Joyce's the Dead, Secret Garden John Cameron Mitchell: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Secret Garden Bebe Neuwirth: Chicago, Diva (Williamstown) Lea Michele: Ragtime, Spring Awakening
"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.
Lea Salonga - Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song, Les Miserables (Eponine and Fantine) Joan Almedilla - Miss Saigon, Les Miserables Sutton Foster - Les Miserables, Thoroughly Modern Millie Audra McDonald - Ragtime, Annie Krisin Chenoweth - Annie, Wicked Idina Menzel - Wicked, Rent Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria Donna Murphy - Passion, The King and I Ruthie Henshall - Chicago, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Putting It Together Jennifer Paz - Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song Roxanne Taga - Miss Saigon, Rent, Aladdin the Musical Hazel Anne Raymundo - Miss Saigon, Making Tracks, Pacific Overtures Revival Yuka Takara - Flower Drum Song, Pacific Overtures Revival, A Chorus Line
Patrick Wilson - Full Monty, Phantom of the Opera Will Chase - Miss Saigon, Full Monty Hoon Lee - Making Tracks, Flower Drum Song, Pacific Overtures Revival Jose Llana - King and I, Flower Drum Song Norm Lewis - Miss Saigon, Les Miserables Welly Yang - Miss Saigon, Making Tracks Francis Ruivivar - Passion, Miss Saigon Joseph Anthony Foronda - Miss Saigon, Pacific Overtures Revival Alvin Ing - Flower Drum Song, Pacific Overtures Revival Michael K. Lee - Miss Saigon, Pacific Overtures Revival, Aladdin the Musical Telly Leung - Flower Drum Song, Pacific Overtures Revival, Wicked
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley