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What Inspires You?
sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#50re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:36pm
>> everyone is so damn nice too.
Uh... right! We are!
Now if you'll just come over and sit on this casting couch for a moment....
:)
"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader
BakersWife3
Chorus Member Joined: 5/3/04
#51re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:49pm
carolee carmello
sutton foster
marin mazzie
harriet harris
alison janney
an orchestra warming up
truth, truth, truth, truth, truth!!!!!!!
bette
rogers and hammerstein
idina (yes, when she's singing defying gravity...i couldn't help it...it floored me and i'm so glad that it did)
joanna gleason (esp. as the baker's wife)
moments of silence in plays
the last act of Ibsen's A Doll House
marching bands
ethel merman
judi dench
vagina monologues
susan stroman
vivaldi
blank pages + art supplies
books
TRUTH and the search for truth as an actor
the list goes on and on but that's all i can think of at the moment
Do not put your faith in a cape and a hood.
They will not protect you the way that they should.
~Into the Woods
"There is no plague! You are trying to raise cows on the side of a MOUNTAIN!!!" ~Meredith Parker, Bat Boy
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#52re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 5:54pmsean martin, um....what do you mean by that?
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#53re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 6:07pm
theatrechief i adore your answers. The applause, the laughter of the audience when a joke sells, the possible smiles you can bring to people that weren't there before. The family building of the cast, the risk taking, the possiblity that something may go wrong but that's part of the fun. The high!
and people-wise:
- it sounds cheesy, but my good friend will do anmything to perform as career and its so inspring.
- CAPPIES, a critics review program I do that's inspired me to go into journalism (But of course act on the side! I coudln't live w/o acting, but don't wnat to do it professionally).
- starmaking stories like Sutton's
- the story of Marx and Lopez
- persistance like Chenoweth's after her failed show
- Sondheim not selling out
(Sorry if that was incedibly cheesy but it's all true).
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Updated On: 7/8/04 at 06:07 PM
#54re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 8:02pmOnce, when I was just a boy, a man stole me away from my young mother. I was forced into a car and driven 400 miles to El Paso, Texas. There I was presented to a royally dressed Chinese immigrant woman. My captor informed her that he had given birth to me and I was his present to her. She threw her ginger ale to the Purgo® floor and demanded more from this vagrant. He though a moment and then performed a one man version of the “Mikado”. I was so moved by that, I decided that I would work the rest of my life helping others to know the great Gershwin musicals.
Its Aberqurque NM for me. Speaking Spanish. Be Back September 06.
sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#55re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 8:20pm
Why, nothing, ponine, nothing at all...
I just thought you'd like to see us a little... you know... "friendly"... which we can be, of course.
Here, make yourself comfortable.
:)
"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader
#56re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 8:21pm
Sutton Foster
Michelle Federer
Kristin Chenoweth
Audrey Hepburn
bwaymargie
Understudy Joined: 2/20/04
#57re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 9:37pm
*God
*NYC (duh)
*Kristin Chenoweth
*Sutton Foster (yay for sort-of-local girls! haha)
*Barbara Cook (wahoo!)
*Carly Jibson (another local girl!)
*Kate Reinders (")
*Applause at curtain call
*Opening Nights
* 11'o clock Numbers
*William Finn (the master of the ballad)
*Jason Robert Brown
*Rogers and Hammerstein Music (aah the lyrics)
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#58re: re: re: re: re: What Inspires You?
Posted: 7/8/04 at 9:44pm
The experience of reality.
Beauty.
Love.
Frustration.
Need.
Desire.
Personal creative inspirations: Beethoven, Marlowe, Whoopi, Ian McKellan, Judy, Daniel Day Lewis, Etta James, Ray Charles, Vermeer, Baryshnikov, Pavarotti, Van Cliburn, Martin Luther King and the Dali Lama.
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