re: Best Chemistry Onstage

[Broadwayluva]

Who would you say has the best chemistry onstge?

[LaVieBoheme2]

I think that Sherie Rene Scott and Norbert Leo Butz have amazing onstage chemistry (in both Last 5 Years and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels); you can really tell that they're close friends. And I think that Kelli O'Hara and Victoria Clark have great onstage chemistry as daughter and mother in Light in the Piazza.

[best12bars]

Lane & Broderick.

[keatonbynumbers]

Yeah, I was going to say Sherie and Norbert. They definitely have the best chemistry.

And I guess the reason I became a Rent fan in the first place was because Daphne and Adam had pretty fantastic chemistry.

[tagiunagi]

John Lithgow & Norbert

[Yankeefan007]

Lane and Broderick had chemistry in Producers....now Broderick's like a dead fish.

Norbert and Sherie are great.

Michael Cerveris, Patti LuPone, and Audra MacDonald also have great chemistry.

[phantompenguinx]

Beach and Bart

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Hmm...

I do have to put in a special vote for Idina and Cheno. Sorry, but I really do think they were great and worked well with eachother and bounced off of eachother splendidly. Their wonderful chemistry was undeniable if you ask me.

[marincrazy11]

Mazzie and Stokes

[colleen_lee]

I really have RENT on the brain right now:

I think Cary Shields and Matt Caplan have a great chemistry. They play off eachother well.

And I think Adam and Anthony had and still have tremendous chemistry. They have really complimentary styles and it works so well together.

[Dame Fanadette]

Wopat and Peters

[Creative Lunatic]

Olive and Barfee!!!

[spellingbee_ROCKS007]

i 2nd that one creative lunatic!Go Olive and Barfee!!!

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott have amazing chemistry. Both in Last 5 Years and in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

[dry2olives]

Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan in Private Lives.

[luvtheEmcee]

Tossing in my usual votes for:
(a) Raśl Esparza and Billy Warlock, The Normal Heart
(b) Adam Pascal and Heather Headley, AIDA

Bless my predictability.

And definitely Norbert and Sherie Renee. No matter what the roles, they ALWAYS click.

[TabooWickedFan]

Euan Morton and Jeffrey Carlson in Taboo
Adam Pascal and Heather Headley in Aida
and there are more but i just cant think right now ha.

[melissa errico fan]

Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci in Frankie and Johnny...
Mary-Louise Parker, Johanna Day, Larry Bryggman and Ben Shenkman in Proof
Kelli O'Hara and Matt Morrison in The Light in the Piazza
Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in Sweeney Todd
Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris in Sweeney Todd
Tonya Pinkins and Harrison Chad in Caroline, or Change
Michael Rupert and Stephen Bogardus in Falsettos
Raul Julia, Jill Clayburgh and Frank Langella in Design for Living
Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle in The Real Thing
Toni Collette and Mandy Patinkin in The Wild Party

I could go on for days, but I'll stop there...

[incendiary_wit]

Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott
Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal

[hannahshule]

York and Barrett in Kiss Me Kate

[IssaMe]

David Burnham & Jennifer Hughes (Piazza) - proving understudies have chemistry too!

[Phantom2]

Joe Machota and Tina Maddigan in Mamma Mia!

[hearthatstrue]

Hannahshule, I second that!

Maybe I'm just weird, but I don't think Norbert and Sherie have any chemistry. At all. He and Idina, on the other hand, have unbelievable chemistry. And I do think that he and Lithgow have fantastic chemistry.

I remember thinking that Jennifer Laura Thompson and Hunter Foster had great chemistry.

Adam Pascal and...kind of everyone. But he and Deborah Cox stood out to me.

[luvtheEmcee]

He totally doesn't have chemistry with everyone, as hot as he is. I've actually found him to be really... selective, for lack of a better term, especially so when he was in Aida. If he wasn't feeling it, he'd just sort of flop down on the stage next to whoever was playing Aida. And really, Radames can't look that disinterested. He and Deborah were okay -- I loved him with Saycon, though. uuuugh.

(Your avatar is still really, really beautiful!)

[hearthatstrue]

Hah. Thanks.

See, whenever I see him perform, I feel like he's got good chemistry going with everyone. Unless I'm just completely blinded by his...talents.

[luvtheEmcee]

I can see how that would happen. He's just so charming, that he can almost cover it up. I think that because he wasn't always such an actor, if there wasn't a fairly good relationship offstage, it showed -- if we're talking romantic chemistry, anyway. But, even when I saw him do a 10 minute straight play, that was so improved. Granted, none of his relations were romantic, but he was so gooooood.

/ramble.