Born for the stage

[Julie Yard]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 7:08pm

Who do you consider to be born for the stage.. and let's limit it to acting... not just people who have a presence, or are dynamic to watch but aren't acting. Let's hear about the people who go up there and always inhabit their roles like a 2nd skin.

I'll start... Audra McDonald and Norbert Leo Butz.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 7:18pm

Ms. Kelli O'Hara and Mr. Norm Lewis!

[BenjaminNicholas2]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 7:19pm

Liza

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 8:33pm

^ Liza is the only real answer here.

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 8:34pm

And maybe Ethel Merman

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 9:05pm

Sorry (here is comes) I love Liza in film and in concert. Saw her in Chicago (unplanned), the Act and the Rink. On Broadway she was a B- at best


Kelli Ohara. Bernadette, Tony Roberts, Channing, Idina, Norbert Leo Butz, Audra, James Earl Jones, Jesse Mueller, Estelle Parsons, Judith Light, Nathan Lane, Bebe Newirth, Verdon, Fierstein in my mind were made for the stage

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 9:35pm

Audra, Norbert and Idina. Good picks.

Jessie Mueller, not Jesse.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 9:35pm

The Almighty Bernadette!!!

[darreyl102]

Posted: 9/23/14 at 9:57pm

Liza- No. She has the personality, but can struggle vocally a lot (not just now, but in the past).

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 9/24/14 at 10:12am

Angela Lansbury and patti lupone

[Miranda3]

Posted: 9/24/14 at 11:57am

The fabulous one-of-a-kind Dorothy Loudon!