Best Chemistry Onstage
Best Chemistry Onstage
LaVieBoheme2
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#1re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 8:50pmI think that Sherie Rene Scott and Norbert Leo Butz have amazing onstage chemistry (in both Last 5 Years and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels); you can really tell that they're close friends. And I think that Kelli O'Hara and Victoria Clark have great onstage chemistry as daughter and mother in Light in the Piazza.
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My avatar: me talking to Norbert Leo Butz.
#2re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 8:53pmLane & Broderick.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#3re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 8:56pm
Yeah, I was going to say Sherie and Norbert. They definitely have the best chemistry.
And I guess the reason I became a Rent fan in the first place was because Daphne and Adam had pretty fantastic chemistry.
tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#4re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 9:02pmJohn Lithgow & Norbert
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#5re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 9:12pm
Lane and Broderick had chemistry in Producers....now Broderick's like a dead fish.
Norbert and Sherie are great.
Michael Cerveris, Patti LuPone, and Audra MacDonald also have great chemistry.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#7re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 9:25pm
Hmm...
I do have to put in a special vote for Idina and Cheno. Sorry, but I really do think they were great and worked well with eachother and bounced off of eachother splendidly. Their wonderful chemistry was undeniable if you ask me.
#8re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 10:22pmMazzie and Stokes
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee
"It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#9re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:00pm
I really have RENT on the brain right now:
I think Cary Shields and Matt Caplan have a great chemistry. They play off eachother well.
And I think Adam and Anthony had and still have tremendous chemistry. They have really complimentary styles and it works so well together.
"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. "
--Sueleen Gay
#10re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:03pmWopat and Peters
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Creative Lunatic
Leading Actor Joined: 5/9/05
spellingbee_ROCKS007
Understudy Joined: 8/7/05
#12re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:30pmi 2nd that one creative lunatic!Go Olive and Barfee!!!
I can finally afford to see a Broadway show!
-Norbert Leo Butz
Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/26/05
#13re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:13amNorbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott have amazing chemistry. Both in Last 5 Years and in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
#14re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:16amAlan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in Private Lives.
#15re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 12:34am
Tossing in my usual votes for:
(a) Raúl Esparza and Billy Warlock, The Normal Heart
(b) Adam Pascal and Heather Headley, AIDA
Bless my predictability.
And definitely Norbert and Sherie Renee. No matter what the roles, they ALWAYS click.
#16re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 8:33am
Euan Morton and Jeffrey Carlson in Taboo
Adam Pascal and Heather Headley in Aida
and there are more but i just cant think right now ha.
"But I relish every brillant inspired moment. This is who I'm determined to be- an actor/singer/dancer-no, I take that back, this is who I am. These people are my tribe, my destiny. I know it.
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#17re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 8:51am
Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci in Frankie and Johnny...
Mary-Louise Parker, Johanna Day, Larry Bryggman and Ben Shenkman in Proof
Kelli O'Hara and Matt Morrison in The Light in the Piazza
Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in Sweeney Todd
Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris in Sweeney Todd
Tonya Pinkins and Harrison Chad in Caroline, or Change
Michael Rupert and Stephen Bogardus in Falsettos
Raul Julia, Jill Clayburgh and Frank Langella in Design for Living
Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle in The Real Thing
Toni Collette and Mandy Patinkin in The Wild Party
I could go on for days, but I'll stop there...
#18re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:17am
Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott
Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#19re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:23amYork and Barrett in Kiss Me Kate
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
IssaMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
#20re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:31amDavid Burnham & Jennifer Hughes (Piazza) - proving understudies have chemistry too!
#21re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 10:05amJoe Machota and Tina Maddigan in Mamma Mia!
"I'm learning to dig deep down inside and find the truth within myself and put that out. I think what we identify with in popular music more than anything else is when someone just shares a truth that we can relate to. That's what I'm searching for in my music." - Ron Bohmer
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
"I broke the boundaries. It wasn't cool to be in plays- especially if you were in sports & I was in both." - Ashton Kutcher
hearthatstrue
Stand-by Joined: 9/10/05
#22re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 10:22am
Hannahshule, I second that!
Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't think Norbert and Sherie have any chemistry. At all. He and Idina, on the other hand, have unbelievable chemistry. And I do think that he and Lithgow have fantastic chemistry.
I remember thinking that Jennifer Laura Thompson and Hunter Foster had great chemistry.
Adam Pascal and...kind of everyone. But he and Deborah Cox stood out to me.
#23re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 10:26am
He totally doesn't have chemistry with everyone, as hot as he is. I've actually found him to be really... selective, for lack of a better term, especially so when he was in Aida. If he wasn't feeling it, he'd just sort of flop down on the stage next to whoever was playing Aida. And really, Radames can't look that disinterested. He and Deborah were okay -- I loved him with Saycon, though. uuuugh.
(Your avatar is still really, really beautiful!) 
hearthatstrue
Stand-by Joined: 9/10/05
#24re: Best Chemistry Onstage
Posted: 11/5/05 at 10:32am
Hah. Thanks.
See, whenever I see him perform, I feel like he's got good chemistry going with everyone. Unless I'm just completely blinded by his...talents.
