Broadway 5: Great Women of Broadway

There are fewer Broadway regulars that are women. I'm not sure if it is because there are so many talented women to pick from or a dearth of leading roles for women (probably the later), But here is a group of my favorite (at least of those I have seen multiple times).

Marisa Tomei: No headshot as I rather use a picture from her Oscar Winning role in My Cousin Vinney. then, left to right:

1. Off-Broadway Marie and Bruce. The first show I saw her in and I was prepared to be disappointed. I thought she did it  to get back to movies. I was wrong, she was excellent and fun to see in a tiny off-Broadway Theater.
2. On-Broadway in the Realistic Joneses. It was an interesting and slightly twisted play. Here she is with Michael C Hall. Also in the show, Toni Collette and Tracy Letts.
3. Lincoln Center in How To Transcend a Happy Marriage. A weird as hell show, but interesting,  that she and Lena Hall stole.

Stockard Channing: She plays roles across the spectrum, and wows audiences every time.

1. Stockard in It's Only a Play. A comedy where she played Virginia Noyes, the star of the play within a play and a pill popping, alcoholic Diva.
2. The worried mother in Other Desert Cities. (note: the name is from that traffic sign on the 10, where it splits into "Palm Springs" and "Other Desert Cities".
3. She stole my heart in Pal Joey. Kind of a meh play except when she was on stage. And her rendition of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" slayed me. I loved it so much I went a second time and took Ed. (I had to fix this, originally I said Bewitched, Bothered and Bemused!)

Idina Menzel: Famous, on Broadway, for being the first Elphaba in the show Wicked. Famous, for your children, for voice of Elsa in  frozen and singing the song "Let It Go" being the first Tony winning actress to have a top 10 hit on the musical chart.

1. In her huge star making turn in Rent. This was show that Ed and I saw a million years ago on Broadway with the original cast - we went with Suzanne and Diane on our trip to New York. She plays the same role in the movie.
2. Wicked. She was the first Elphaba and won the Best Actress Tony for the show. I have seen the show a few times (with my mom, among others). This was the only show Ed saw first and took me to see it, with Lynn and the Muffin.
3. In Skintight. She had to play kind of the straight role of the daughter opposite her father (a Calvin Klein rip off), her son and the boy toy that her father and son fight over.