Bob Fosse-Pal Joey Anthony Rapp-Charlie Brown LaChanze-The Color Purple and Once on the Island Kevin Chamberlian- Seussical Ethel Merman-Gypsy Johanna Gleason- ITW
This was back in January 1999. It was a very rainy Sunday and the show was already delayed an hour due to water leaking onto the stage at Studio 54. No one was allowed into the theatre yet, so everyone was stuffed like sardines into the foyer to avoid the rain. Then on top of that we were told shortly before the doors opened (one hour late) that Alan Cumming had gone home sick, so they were hastily getting Vance Avery into make-up...thus the show was delayed a little bit more.
Thankfully the show was still wonderful and by the end I had forgotten about the prior ordeal. However, I still wish I could have seen Cumming.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
Angela Lansbury in Sweeney. Original Cabaret. Original Wicked, Ethel Mermon in Annie Get your gun. Stephanie D'Abruzzo in Avenue Q. Tim Curry in Spamalot, Original Into the Woods,
Is that too many?
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Ethel Merman in anything, but especially Anything Goes or Gypsy. Angela Lansbury ins...anything she did, but definitely Mame, Gypsy or Sweeney. Mary Martin as Peter Pan or Maria. Jerry Orbach as El Gallo or in Promises, Promises. the OBC of A Chorus Line. anything Patti did before my time, especially some of her early work with The Acting Company, Evita, Anything Goes and Sunset Boulevard (which technically wasn't before my time, but it was in London and I was a wee thing) Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change. this I'm actually legit upset I didn't go see. Donna Murphy in Passion. any original Sondheim, for that matter. Victoria Clark in The Light in the Piazza. Michael Jeter in Grand Hotel. OBC AND Revival casts of Nine. oh, and the original production of Cradle Will Rock.
I have a long wishlist. maybe I should've just said I wanted to see the Merm and end with that.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
so should this thread be merged with the "Where are they now?" thread? I wanted to see Jere Shea in Passion. he's a former pro, but where is he now?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Also: John Lloyd Young in Jersey Boys Malcolm Gets in The Apple Tree Raul Esparza in Company Norbert Leo Butz in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Douglas Sills in The Scarlet Pimpernel Howard McGillin in The Secret Garden
Audra McDonald: Ragtime Roger Bart: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown Alan Cumming: Cabaret Bebe Neuwirth: Chicago Idina Menzel: Rent Kristin Chenoweth: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown Entire Cast of Lippa's The Wild Party Patti Lupone: Evita
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet Raul Esparza in Rocky Horror Terrence Mann in Scarlet Pimpernel (just to see him sing 'Falcon in the Dive') Mandy Patinkin in Sunday in the Park Ian McKellen in King Lear
I'm sure there's more
You don't go to the dragon without a present - Mark Rylance
I was THISCLOSE to seeing him, but sadly, he got ill and his understudy went on. The understudy was still great, but it's not the same, especially since it was a birthday present!
But I totally agree with Patti in Evita Idina in Wicked (she's still my favorite...) Joel Grey in anything, but especially Cabaret. Oh my gosh yes. But my number one is Bernadette Peters in Gypsy!
Stritch: Company Peters: Sunday in the Park McDonald: 110 Degrees in the Shade Holliday: Dreamgirls (She left the night before I saw it. I was crushed) Pinkins: Merrily Lane & Broderick: Producers (Had the chance and turned it down)