If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?
If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?
#1If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:36pm
This is a serious question.
The expression is tossed about, but seriously for who would you shell out cash to watch their reading (or singing) of the phone book?
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#2re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phone book?
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:40pm
Victoria Clark
popular_elphie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/05
#2re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:40pm
Norbert Leo Butz. He seems like he'd make it interesting and hilarious.
And I would pay money to see that.
#3re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:42pm
No one.
You people are truly insane.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#4re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:45pm
Zoe Caldwell
Vanessa Redgrave
Maggie Smith
James Earl Jones
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#5re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:45pmIf Margo posts, I'm not embarassed.
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#6re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:46pm
Michael Cerveris
and yes Rath.. indeed I am at least:)
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#7re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:47pm
I don't know if this counts, but:
Christine Ebersole as Little Edie.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
PirelisMiracleElixir
Chorus Member Joined: 3/11/06
#8re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:48pm
Patti LuPone
Martin Short
Bob Martin
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#9re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:48pm
I am insane but that's a whole other story.
There would have to be some really specific people (I'd have to think about who) and it would have to be pretty cheap for me to pay for someone to read/sing me the phone book.
Oh, and is this person reading just to ME or an audience?
That could help sway my decision too.
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
Updated On: 4/6/07 at 11:48 PM
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#10re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:49pmwonderfulwizard- YES! Totally agree!
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#11re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:51pmBernadette Peters
#12re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:53pm
Patti LuPone
Angela Lansbury
Barbra Streisand (unless it's 1000$ full priced, which I will not do)
Three ladies that I'd see in anything.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#13re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:58pmChristine Ebersole
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/6/07 at 11:59pm
Kathleen Turner
Patti LuPone
they would *make sure* the audience got their money's worth.
#15re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:08amI mean if it were conducted as a regular play. People on stage interpreting the phone book however they saw it fit (music, speech, dance, movement, whatever), with a full audience.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#16re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:11amAnthony Warlow . . . no doubt!
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#17re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:11am
Patti would so belt the whole damn thing.
And then get up and do the chicken dance (or a shot) whenever someone has a Jewish last name.
It would be fab.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#18re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:11amBernadette Peters
#19re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:16amNorbert.
#20re: If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:21amCelia Keenan-Bolger. (I'm such a loser.) She's just so damn cute in everything she does! (I'd also bet that she's spell at least one of them in her Olive voice) XD
"My muffin top is all that/whole grain and low-fat/I know you want a piece of that/But I just wanna dance!"
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#21If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:30am
I'll second Maggie Smith, Victoria Clark, and Michael Cerveris. The spin that man can put on the simple word "No" blows me away.
Updated On: 1/20/09 at 12:30 AM
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#22If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:50amMeryl Streep
#23If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 12:53am
I would love to see Lea Salonga sing the phone book.
~Steven
lfae
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#24If tickets were full priced, who would you ACTUALLY watch read the phon
Posted: 4/7/07 at 1:25amJulia Murney, without a doubt!
