Who were the best,worst,and so-so replacements on broadway? Here`s my list:
BEST:
Cathy Rigby as The Cat in the Hat (Seussical)
Harvey Fierstein as Tevye (Fiddler)
Andrea Martin as Golde (Fiddler)
Jonathan Freeman as Roger (The Producers)
Jonathan Rayson as Frog (A Year With Frog and Toad)
Jonathan Rayson as Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors)
Reba Mcentire as Annie (Annie Get Your Gun)
Gary Beach as Rooster (Annie)
Richard Kind as Max (The Producers)
Roger Bart as Leo (The Producers)
George Hearn as Benjamin "Sweeney Todd" Barker (Sweeney Todd)
George Hearn as The Wizard (Wicked)
Roger Bart as Xanthias (The Frogs)
Neil Patrick Harris as The Emcee (Cabaret)
Tom Hewitt as Scar (The Lion King)
Christopher Siber as Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Terannce Mann as Frank'n Furter (Rocky Horror)
Rob Bartlett as Amos (Chicago)
Mike Starr as Murray (The Odd Couple)
Norbert Leo Butz as Roger (RENT)
Tony Roberts as Herr Schultz (Cabaret)
Amy Spanger (Urinetown)
Ana Gasteyer as Columbia (Rocky Horror)
Rob Bartlett as Herman (Sweet Charity)
SO-SO:
John Stamos as The Emcee (Cabaret)
Matt Caplan as Mark (RENT)
Rosie O'Donnell as Golde (Fiddler)
Liza Minnelli as Victoria Grant (Victor/Victoria)
Barry Williams as King Marchon (Victor/Victoria)
Rosie O'Donnell as The Cat in the Hat (Seussical)
WORST:
Raquel Welch as Victiria Grant (Victor/Victoria)
Whoopi Goldberg as Pseudolus/Prologus (A Funny Thing Happened...Forum)
more coming............
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
I can't even count the number of times this thread has been posted in just the past 3 months.
"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
So? It doesn`t matter! Just get thru this one for 3 days like all the rest!
Who Cares?
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
This thread got lost in the sea of the Tony boards! lol
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Or it got lost because people have answered it 100 times in the last 3 months and don't want to list Reba McEntire for the 85th time.
If yuou truly give a rats behind what people think on this topic, SEARCH.
Bumping your own thread is just vile and self-indulgent.
"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
Nathanlanestalker- what do you mean who cares? Obviously everybody but you. Dont be such a pain use the search function and then when you realize that nobody wants a thread on one that has already been done before then DONT BUMP IT. It is really not that hard to use search unless you have a disabillity that makes it so you can't hit it.
george bush is vile and self-indulgent...I know some folks are frustrated community theatre chorus folk, but that is no reason to be sooooooooooo melodramatic.
" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm
AND I did use the search to find this! lol. And no it didn`t get lost because people didn`t want to list these! It IS because of al the Tony buzz!
once again.....who cares....colleen_lee?
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Barry Williams as Count Von Trapp (The Sound of Music)
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
"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
"For example, if I should paint my fingernails green -
and it just so happens I do paint them green. Well, if anyone should ask me why, I say: 'I think it's pretty!'"
Matt Caplan was So-So for me! Did anyone here see Cathy Rigby in Seussical? WOW! HILARIOUS Ad-libs and just....WOW! I loved how they changed her from a pool boy (since she`s a woman) to a Excersice instructer! She ran in all hyper going "Come on! Get up! Let`s excersice! COME ON GET UP!!!!!!!" And when she said to Horton during the song Biggest Blame Fool "It`s okay Hort! I understand! Sometimes I like dressing up in green tights and act like I`m talking to fairies!" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
I loved Harvey Fierstein as Tevye, and prefered him to Alfred Molina. He brought such a warm, mensch-like quality to the part.
Back sometime in the '90s I saw Les Miserables and Andrea McArdle was Fantine. At first I wasn't sure it was the right casting, but she turned out to be fantastic. Her voice was just golden and had matured so beautifully without losing any of that natural magic. I was ecstatically surprised!
Most disappointing: Got tickets to the Anything Goes revival and learned that Leslie Uggams was playing Reno Sweeney. Yeah, she was more than fine. But I wanted LuPone, dammit!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey