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broadwaydivastournament · 3 days

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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 4

It's been a little too relaxed around here these last few weeks. Very few wars, very few vicious fights among Diva fans. So. We're back to where we began with Bernadette vs. Patti and now Lea Salonga in the pit. If Lea hasn't been tossed back in after losing to Christine Baranski Round One, I'm confident my beloved Kelli O'Hara would have made it to Round 4 (and then been summarily eviscerated by Bernadette). So, to avenge my darling blonde soprano (a dying breed), here she is boys, here she is world, here's Patti.

Seven-time Tony nominee, two-time winner Bernadette Peters (1948) has a sixty-plus year stage career of monumental proportions. Considered the foremost Sondheim interpreter, their collaborative works include Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the Woods (1987), Gypsy (2003), and Follies (2011). She has a thriving concert career, and was a co-founder of the beloved Broadway Barks event each year in Shubert Alley. She has an honorary third Tony (Isabelle Stevenson Award) for her outstanding advocacy and philanthropy.

Lea Salonga (1971) made history in 1991 as the first Asian performer to ever win Best Leading Actress in a Musical for Miss Saigon. She was just twenty years old at the time, the second youngest, and now all these years later, she qualifies for our MILF tournament. Lea has starred in six Broadway shows including Les Miserables (as first Eponine and then later Fantine), Once On This Island (2017), and most recently a brief stint in Here Lies Love (2023). She is also the singing voice for Disney's Mulan.

Eight-time Tony nominee, three-time winner Patti LuPone (1949) has a staggering fifty-plus year stage career. Award-winning roles include Eva Peron in Evita (1979), Gypsy (2008), and Company (2022). She has toured the US with her wildly successful concert and cabaret acts, and will kill you on sight if she sees a cell phone in the theatre. Patti was NOT Norma Desmond on Broadway, and because of it, is the proud owner of the ALW Memorial Pool. She is no longer a member of Actors' Equity. Despite that, she will reportedly be back on Broadway next season in a straight play.

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"Time to prove that this is the Bernadette Peters website. Let's go, lesbians, let's go."

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"She may have had a second chance at winning, but we've got to make things fair. Let's see how she does up against not one, but two of Broadway's biggest Divas."

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"Just like her Broadway career, Patti LuPone rises from the dead. She's just here for the extra chaos, and I cannot wait to see the results."

#broadwaydivastournament #broadway #tournament poll #broadway divas #musical theatre #bernadette peters #lea salonga #patti lupone #round 4

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babymyleopard · 18 days

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when/if it comes down to Christine Baranski x Bernadette Peters on the @broadwaydivastournament I will simply die

#bernadette peters #christine baranski #Broadway divas #like that's the right thing to do

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lonelylittledot · 11 months

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i love you Sutton Foster i love you Sierra Boggess i love you Audra McDonald i love you Eva Noblezada i love you Phillipa Soo i love you Jessie Mueller i love you Idina Menzel i love you Denée Benton i love you Lindsay Mendez i love you Karen Olivo i love you Jane Krakowski i love you Amber Gray i love you Patina Miller i love you Rachel Tucker i love you Katrina Lenk i love you Laura Osnes i love you Kara Lindsay i love you Christy Altomare i love you Sara Bareilles i love you Mandy Gonzalez i love you Laura Benanti i love y

#broadway #broadway leading ladies #broadway icons #actress #musicals #musical theatre #broadway diva #broadway legends #sutton foster #sierra boggess #idina menzel #sara bareilles #laura benanti

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voltives · 2 months

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a selection of my (personal) favourite bebe neuwirth photos (pt. 1) 📸 – top left: mark meredith's twitter (04/13/17) top right: opening night of atlantic theatre company's "the bedwetter" (06/07/22) - photo by bruce gilkas middle left: opening night of "back to the future" (07/23/23) - from paula legett chase's instagram middle right: 74th tony award (09/26/21) bottom left: good morning america (with david hyde pierce, unpictured) - (03/22/22) bottom right: conversations with lin manuel miranda, laura benanti (unpictured) at the "all about eve" screening (03/06/22)

#bebe neuwirth #photo dump #ahead of her broadway return next month and the diva polls i do consider this poll propaganda ♥️

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armandjolras · 2 months

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#i made this back in December but never posted it #I’m usually not a big tagger but I feel like I have to tag everyone for fairness #ethel merman #chita rivera #barbra streisand #patti lupone #bernadette peters #liza minnelli #audra mcdonald #pia douwes #(who is not really a Broadway diva but I feel is well worthy of the title)#lea salonga #elaine stritch #julie andrews

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batxmasisrjuice · 2 years

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#that reveal #those diva poses #comparison #you're killing us alex!#jesus christ why you gotta be so sexy #alex brightman #beetlejuice #beetlejuice musical #beetlejuice broadway #beetlegeuse #beetlejuice bway

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awestruck-atrophy · 9 months

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gender is wanting to play both the Lady of the Lake and Sir Robin in Spamalot & Bea and Shakespeare in Something Rotten

#something rotten #spamalot #gender #dream role #dream roles #divas lament #hard to be the bard #will power #I have a range and I’d like to use it please #musicals #Broadway #broadway musicals #bway

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droughtofapathy · 21 days

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BERNADETTE PETERS AND LEA SALONGA BACK ON BROADWAY WHERE THEY BELONG. NOT ONLY THAT, IT'S AN MTC PRODUCTION AND THAT MEANS AFFORDABLE TICKETS.

This is a West End transfer of the musical revue that began as a one-night concert tribute. Previews will begin March 25, 2025, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.

#WHO ELSE??? WHO ELSE IS GOING TO BE IN THE CAST DO WE GET A WHOLE STAGE OF BROADWAY DIVAS PLEASE #bernadette peters #lea salonga

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dollsome-does-tumblr · 3 months

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casey bloys trying to summon gay twitter to love the gilded age (at a time when it feels like it’s being asked to be seen as a replacement for ofmd, however accidental that might have been) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

julian fellowes: #1 at lgbtq storytelling is like the bleakest suggestion i’ve ever heard

#i get why you’d say that because tga is very camp and full of famous broadway divas but also ………. no #dollsome's deep thoughts #we live in a television society #anyway this personally wounded me as someone who had many gay ships on downton over the many cold and unsatisfying years there

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broadwaydivastournament · 3 days

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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 4

Diva, icon, certified GILF Christine Baranski (1952) has a theatre resume a mile long. A two-time Tony winner, Christine has performed on and off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally in shows such as Mame at the Kennedy Center, the pre-Broadway workshop of Sunday in the Park with George, and the infamous flop that was Nick & Nora (1991). She can be seen alongside a slew of other Broadway Divas in HBO's The Gilded Age, and has also participated in at least ten Sondheim shows and concerts over the years.

Newly certified GILF, Donna Murphy (1959) is a two-time Tony-winning legend of the Broadway stage, with five nominations in all, each for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Her gripping performance as the chronically ill Fosca in Sondheim's Passion (1994) may have disgusted and disturbed audiences, but earned her immense critical acclaim. Two years later, she won her second Tony for The King and I (1996), and the year after that, earned a Daytime Emmy. Additional credits include: Dear World (2023), Hello, Again (1993), LoveMusik (2007), and most recently on Broadway, Bette Midler's alternate in Hello, Dolly! (2017)

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"The high-kicking bitch herself, Christine Baranski. It's a legal requirement that every actress who plays Phyllis must have legs for days, and she delivers."

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"There is one singular show above all other I would commit heinous crimes to travel back in time to see. Follies for Encores!, 2007. And now, with the upcoming Follies concert at Carnegie Hall this June, I can live out at least some of my dream. Donna Murphy, my beloved, who looks fucking stunning with no makeup. I am unwell."

#broadwaydivastournament #tournament poll #broadway #broadway divas #musical theatre #donna murphy #christine baranski #round 4

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ereborne · 4 months

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Song of the Day: January 14

"Diva's Lament (Whatever Happened to My Part)" from Monty Python's Spamalot

#song of the day #two hours in a car + four hours in a different car + eight hours on the train + two hours in yet a different car(truck) and now home!#it was a good trip and I'm glad to have done it (actually there's a couple people I didn't get to see so I could've gone for longer)#but today was big stinky balls and I'm so glad to be home at last #the cats are very happy to see us and my poor plants. my poor plants. maybe actually I could not have been gone any longer.#I left such detailed notes on watering but it didn't occur to me to also specify that they should be allowed /light/ my poor plants #anyway our train stopped dead for half an hour outside DC while they changed motors and it was so dark and cold and boring #and I thought 'what's a song I might know all the words to that I've never tried to remember without backing. a nice test song'#and for some reason I came up with Spamalot! a very fun musical #I do indeed know all of the Diva's Lament though I couldn't get You Won't Succeed on Broadway all in the right order #Duncan did ask me what I was thinking about and I got to deliver a couple Diva's Lament lines deadpan #'they've been out searching for a shrub / out shopping for a bush! well they can kiss my tush! / seems to me they've really lost the plot'#no better nonsense than Spamalot

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kitschykitschykoo · 5 months

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