Jun 19, 2009 10:59
1. First Broadway Show: Sweeney Todd
2. Favorite musicals: Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George
3. Favorite Play: Angels in America: Perestroika, Six Characters in Search of an Author
4. Last show you saw: Take Me Out
5. Show you have seen more times than any other: Les Misérables
6. "Flop" you love: Side Show (it wasn't exactly a "flop," but it didn't run very long)
7. "Hit" you could live without: Definitely Cats
8. Show you wish you had seen, but didn't: Grey Gardens
9. Shows you saw that you wish you hadn't: Mamma Mia
10. Show you would go back in time to see: Mame with Angela Lansbury
11. Most overrated show: Again, I have to go with Mamma Mia
12: Most underrated show: The Full Monty
13. Performers you wish were still here so you could see them: Not sure…
14. Performers you would go to see regardless of what they are in: Raul Esparza, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Sieber
15. Favorite Sondheim Song: “Being Alive” from Company or “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George
16. Favorite ALW song: “That’s All I Ask of You” from Phantom
17. Favorite Ahrens & Flaherty Song: “Goodbye My Love/Journey On” and “What a Game” from Ragtime
18. Favorite Kander & Ebb song: “All That Jazz” from Chicago
19. Favorite Jerry Herman songs: “The Best of Times is Now” from La Cage aux Folles, “The Tea Party” from Dear World
20. Favorite Stephen Schwartz song: “Morning Glow” from Pippin, “By My Side” from Godspell
21. Favorite William Finn song: “What Would I Do” from Falsettos (talk about a tear-jerker!)
22. Favorite Frank Loesser song: “Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat” from Guys and Dolls
23. Favorite R&H (Hart or Hammerstein) song: “We Kiss in a Shadow/I Have Dreamed” from The King and I
24. Best Tony Moments: Raul Esparza singing “Being Alive”; Bea Arthur & Angela Lansbury singing “Bosom Buddies”
25. Worst Tony Oversights: Raul Esparza not winning any of his noms
26. Favorite One-Time theater event: Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (is this what this question refers to??)
27. Last theater CD you bought: Billy Elliot,The Musical
28. Favorite Theater Book: Sondheim & Company 2nd Edition by Craig Zadan
29. Favorite theater-related possessions: All the Playbills for every show I have ever seen, plus the Playbill for A Streetcar Named Desire starring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy
30. One Hope for Broadway: That theatre tickets become more affordable for the average person (a pipe dream, I know).