For me: David Hasselhoff Jack Wiley Vanessa Williams Chip Zien
"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
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Well I never hated him, but when I first heard Raul Esparza on the tick, tick...BOOM recording I didn't really love his voice. But after listening to it a bunch of times and seeing clips of the show I really started to like it, and I loved him in Company.
Alice Ripley. My first exposure to her was the Rocky Horror Revival Cast Recording and I was so used to hearing Susan Sarandon (and only Susan Sarandon) that I really disliked her. Now I just absolutely loooooove Alice in everything she does.
Michael Cerveris - Before I listened to Tommy for the first time, and before Assassins and Sweeney Todd were around, he was just that guy who replaced John Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig and for some strange reason I held a grudge against him for it.
Also: Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Cleavant Derricks (The first thing I heard him in was Brooklyn, but then I bought the Dreamgirls OBCR and things changed...)
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul
Kelli O'Hara and Celia Keenan-Bolger who I love now... I think it was more of a jealousy thing, really.
"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!"
--Reefer Madness