Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
#0Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:12pmWho are they?
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#1re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:13pmSondheim!!!!!!
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#2re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:14pmpatti lupone
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
#3re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:16pmThis might not be popular, but Streisand is a product on Broadway, at least in part..
heaja123
Understudy Joined: 5/9/05
#5re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:26pm
In no particular order:
1.) Stephen Sondheim
2.) Edward Albee
3.) John Kander
4.) Kitty Carlisle Hart
5.) Vanessa Redgrave
6.) Chita Rivera
7.) Patti LuPone
8.) Elaine Stritch
9.) Julie Harris
10.) Barbara Cook
Updated On: 7/11/05 at 10:26 PM
#6re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:32pmi'll second JULIE HARRIS.
RIP glebby <3
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#7re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:33pm
Streisand's not really a theatre legend though since she only did two shows and that was 40 years ago.
What about:
Performers:
Julie Harris
Zoe Caldwell
Elaine Stritch
Chita Rivera
Maggie Smith
Judi Dench
James Earl Jones
Vanessa Redgrave
Angela Lansbury
Rosemary Harris
Christopher Plummer
Frank Langella
Carol Channing
Non-Performers:
Sondheim
Hal Prince
Edward Albee
Athol Fugard
John Guare
August Wilson
Neil Simon
Jerry Herman
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Ellen Stewart
Sam Shepard
Lanford Wilson
Caryl Churchill
Arthur Laurents
John Kander
Gene Saks
Jules Fischer
Jane Greenwood
Alan Ayckbourn
Tom Stoppard
Jonathan Tunick
Paul Gemignani
Theoni V. Aldredge
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#8re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:42pm
If you include Patti LuPone, you have to through Bernadette Peters in there. Liza Minnelli has also won Three Tonys. She probably qualifies. Betty Comden, and Tommy Tune probably would fit in there as well.
All in all, just print a big list of who's in the American Theatre Hall of Fame at the Gerswin Theatre and cross off all the dead people.
Updated On: 7/11/05 at 10:42 PM
#9re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:44pmI thought Liza won two (FLORA, THE RED MENACE and THE ACT). Which one did I miss?
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#10re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:45pm
She has a third honorary. Not competative, but still three...She also has a nomination for THE RINK.
#11re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:54pmBarbra Streisand...HELLO!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#12re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:08pmI dont think Streisand is a theatre legend either. Nor is Shirley MacLaine. Or Paul Newman.
#14re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:15pm
Michael Bennett...why would you say Babs isn't a theatre legend?
Surely her "audition" for the role of Fanny was legendary.
She was nominated for a Tony for every role she has done on Broadway (even though it was only two) and did magnificent work in movies as well. And then there are her marvelous renditions of Broadway showtunes...
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#15re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:17pmI think she's a film legend and a music legend. But as Margo says, she did two Broadway shows 40 years ago. It was the spring board for her career, not the basis for her career...
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#16re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:20pmNon performers: Tony Walton and Jules Fisher.
#17re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/11/05 at 11:20pmI guess. I still say she did a legendary performance.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#18re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:40am
No particular order:
-Stephen Sondheim
-Patti LuPone
-Bernadette Peters
-Angela Lansbury
-Joel Grey
-Chita Rivera
-Hal Prince
-Julie Harris
-Barbara Cook
-Audra McDonald (4 Tonys and she's only 32 or 33? She HAS to be up there!)
-Len Cariou
"Who is Stephen Sondheim?" -roninjoey
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
#19re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:44am
I'm not going to make a list. But Chita Rivera ofcourse. What an amazing woman.
Oh and Ann Reinking would also be on my list.
Updated On: 7/12/05 at 12:44 AM
#20re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:52amI fourth(or fifth?) Chita Rivera!
"I'm the STAR!"--Daniel Reichard during Glory Daze sound check
#21re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:59am
Looking just back stage -- no actors, and teams are together:
1. Sondheim
2. Webber (like him or not, his shows are living forever)
3. John Kander
4. Hamlisch (A Chorus Line will last forever)
5. Harnick and Bock (both of whom I believe I are still living)
6. Schwartz
7. McDermot and Ragni(the writers of Hair...that's their names, right?)
8. Arthur Laurents
9. Hal Prince
10. Cameron Mackintosh
Potential: Aherns/Flaherty, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel, William Finn
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#22re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:01am
Definitely Bernadette Peters, Nathan Lane, and Michael Crawford (even though M.C. was responsible for the death of Dance of the Vampires...). And how could we forget Julie Andrews? I think Tim Curry ranks up there, too.
As far as non-performers: Sondheim (forgive the spelling), the composers of Les Miz (I won't even ATTEMPT to spell their names), and Andrew Lloyd Webber. And even though the thread subject is LIVING legends, I just HAVE to meantion the recently departed Cy Coleman.
"Wait a minute. What am I DOING here?! Mr. Bialystock was right! There IS a lot more to me than there is to me! Stop the world! I wanna get ON!" ~Leo Bloom, The Producers
#23re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:03amYou got Sondheim right baby! That's what I like to see.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
shines
Understudy Joined: 2/1/05
#24re: Top 10 Living Theatrical Legends
Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:10am
Sondheim, Chita Rivera, and Nathan Lane.
Updated On: 7/12/05 at 01:10 AM
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