UPDATE: Your Disappointments... and Favorite Broadway Couples

Well, I asked, and you answered... A LOT of you answered!  Thanks!  Recently, I posted two blogs: one about favorite Broadway couples, real-life and in shows (HERE), and the other about shows being disappointments after hearing all the hype surrounding them (HERE).  Several of you emailed and Tweeted about your favorites, and here are some of the most popular responses:

YOUR FAVORITE BROADWAY COUPLES (FROM SHOWS)

Some classics you mentioned:

• Anna and the King (The King and I)
• Nathan Detroit and Miss Adelaide (Guys and Dolls)

• Marian Paroo and Harold Hill (The Music Man)
• Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbrowski (Grease)
• Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque (South Pacific)

Some more modern couples you mentioned - The Top 5:

5.  Raoul and Christine Daae  (The Phantom of the Opera) (The Phantom and Christine got some votes, too.)

4.  Boy and Molly (Peter and the Starcatcher)

3.  Princeton and Kate Monster (Avenue Q)

2.  Elphaba and Fiyero (Wicked)

1.  Marius and Cosette (Les Miserables) (Marius and Eponine got a few votes, too.)

Honorable Mention: Sky and Sophie (Mamma Mia!) and Link Larkin and Tracy Turnblad (Hairspray) 

YOUR MOST DISAPPOINTING SHOWS:

@BBwithPickles: The revival of A Chorus Line "uninspired, boring and drawn out"

@kevinddaly: Clybourne Park "I expected to be wowed, instead I was let-down and a bit bored."
(@ydavey and @tapeworthy agreed)

@TwoShow Days: "Priscilla & Kinky Boots were both extremely tame for shows about drag queens. And the acclaimed War Horse bored me."

@mrtylermartins: "Definitely Golden Boy"

Some of you asked what current shows disappointed me. Hmmm... Big Fish and Jersey Boys for sure!

Keep sending in your choices for future blogs!

Jeff
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Megan + Brian + My 5 Favorite Broadway Couples

My favorite Glinda ever, Megan Hilty, got married over the weekend to another Broadway baby, Jekyll and Hyde's Brian Gallagher.  Congratulations to you both!  And it got me thinking about other Broadway couples that I enjoy... here are 5 of my favorites (though I can think of probably 20 more... maybe that'll be another blog!).

Will Swensen (Hair, Priscilla..., Les Miserables) and Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess, Ragtime)

Terrence Mann (Pippin, Les Miserables, Cats) and Charlotte d'Amboise (Pippin, Cats, Jerome Robbins' Broadway)

Neil Patrick Harris (Assassins, Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and David Burtka (Gypsy)

Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Bonnie and Clyde, West Side Story) and Ashley Spencer (Rock of Ages, Grease)

Nathan Johnson (Broadway photographer) and Laura Osnes (Cinderella, South Pacific, Grease)

and here are 5 of my favorite Broadway couples....

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde)

Georges and Albin (La Cage aux Folles)

Sweeney Todd and Nellie Lovett (Sweeney Todd)

Anita and Bernardo (West Side Story)

Edwin Drood and Rosa Bud (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)


Who are your favorites?  Write in and I'll do a blog about your choices!

Jeff
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