2004 Wrap-Up: Resolutions of the Stars

Sure, they look perfect up there--singing, dancing, acting their hearts out and living the seemingly glamorous lives of Broadway stars. But even stars have things they'd like to change for the better. Since the final days of the calendar year are the perfect time to sit down and reexamine our lives, we at Broadway.com decided to get in touch with some of our friends in the community to see how they were planning on stepping into 2004.

ANGIE SCHWORER
In 2004: Spent a glorious year flaunting it as everyone's favorite Swedish bombshell, Ulla, in The Producers.
Resolution for 2005: "To be in the moment and create a beautiful life without the fear, without taking things so personally! And to read the New York Times from cover to cover every day! OK, that might be pushing it!"

LEA SALONGA
In 2004: Starred in Baby in Manila, released a new album, Songs from Home, and launched a U.S. concert tour.
Resolution for 2005: "To head to the gym more consistently and eat more healthy. But having said that, to also enjoy more of what life has to offer, including the fattening foods! Also, to stop putting off cleaning our office which has now turned into our storage/junk room, because we have no more space here. One lesson that I learned this year is to live life to the fullest. A 16-year-old friend of the family who passed away some weeks ago epitomized that lesson, so I would like to learn by example and really make the most out of life."

SUTTON FOSTER
In 2004: Premiered a smashing solo concert at Lincoln Center, left her Tony-winning role in Thoroughly Modern Millie to tackle the role of Jo in Little Women, first at Duke University and now at Broadway's Virginia Theatre.
Resolution for 2005: "I want to take better care of myself. Eat better, see friends more... maybe buy a new goldfish!"

JAMES BARBOUR
In 2004: Played Leon Czolgosz in the acclaimed revival of Assassins, filmed the romantic comedy Alchemy and performed in his show Back to Broadway at various venues.
Resolution for 2005: "One of the points of focus for me in the New Year is raising the responsibility bar on myself and canceling out the BS. I just don't want to waste time anymore. The other point is trying to get my dog to stop eating what I call 'New York City Street Food' and I'm not talking about hot dogs and pretzels, if you know what I mean. He's sort of got a food obsession...any kind of food...even food that isn't food."

STEPHEN DEROSA
In 2004: Hit the road to star in Lucky Duck, a new ugly duckling musical at San Diego's Old Globe, and as Wilbur Turnblad in the national tour of Hairspray.
Resolution for 2005: "Fewer mandates for Dubya and more mandates for me."

JENNIFER LAURA THOMPSON
In 2004: Replaced Kristin Chenoweth as good witch Galinda in the smash hit Broadway musical Wicked.
Resolution for 2005: "I am not going to start going to the gym. I am not going to lose that last five pounds. I am not going to be a kinder more giving person. My goals are small. I am going to remember to take my multivitamin."

LINDA EMOND
In 2004: Starred on the stage in Homebody/Kabul at BAM, the Cherry Orchard at Williamstown Theatre Festival and on the screen in John and Abigail Adams for PBS' American Experience and the film Dark Water.
Resolution for 2005: "I'm going to rename myself 'Tony Kushner's Linda Emond' since my name always seems to be linked to his anyway--and since that name is pretty good company. Also, I'm going to try to drum up a really great, charismatic Democrat who can knock these guys off their conservative throne. Wanna help?"

CHUCK COOPER
In 2004: Returned to Broadway as a city bus and a laundry room dryer in the Tony-nominated musical Caroline, or Change.
Resolution for 2005: "I'm probably not nearly as kind and giving and grateful as I should be, given the great bounty in my life, so I'm going to get better at giving."

MAX VON ESSEN
In 2004: Headlined and recorded the Irish Repertory Theatre production of Finian's Rainbow, played Patrick in the summer's mini-tour of Auntie Mame and hit the West Coast to play the title roles in both Dorian: The Musical and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Resolution for 2005: "I'm going to sit tight and wait until my Steel Magnolias offer comes in. Ha! Actually, I'll just relax and enjoy myself until the Dame Edna replacement calls take place."

BETTY BUCKLEY
In 2004: Performed in concert venues from coast-to-coast.
Resolution for 2005: "I resolve to become one of the top Non-Pro Cutting Horse riders for 2005. I have a beautiful new show horse named Wild Man Bill and I have a good feeling that we're gonna make a great team in Cutting Horse competitions for 2005-2006. My other great horse Purple Badger who just tied for second in the American Quarter Horse Assoc. World Show is gonna beat everybody next year and he and I are also gonna qualify for the National Cutting Horse Assoc.World Show this year. I resolve to only go to Joe T. Garcia's Mexican Restaurant not more than twice a month, and only after I've lost the rest of this weight. I resolve to stay on the South Beach Diet and lose it all. I've lost 36 pounds over the last three months and counting! And I resolve to get rid of the clutter in my life--my brother Norman gave me a book for Christmas called Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui. Gotta do it! And I resolve a renewed creative discipline and enthusiasm to sing and create. I am so grateful for friends, my co-workers, musicians and all the people who appreciate our work. May we all collaborate to inspire in one another, and all of the lives that we touch, of the love and joy in all our hearts."

DAISY EAGAN
In 2004: Took part in the Actors' Fund of America's all-star L.A. reading of Sunset Boulevard, performed gigs with her comedy troupe Elbow Deep and rehearsed for the new play On the Mountain, which starts performances at South Coast Repertory on January 2.
Resolution for 2005: "I'm going to try really hard not to worry about what everyone else thinks I should do, say or look like. This is especially difficult given that I live in L.A. now and everyone here has an opinion although, word on the street is NYC ain't much different anymore…. Also, I want to be a better partner to my husband. And I have to get my butt back into voice lessons why don't I just do that?. I miss New York!!!"

GREGORY JBARA
In 2004: Guest-starred on Friends and The Tracy Morgan Show, lent his voice to the animated feature Home on the Range and starred in the pre-Broadway run of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Resolution for 2005: "To thank Julie, Zachary and Aidan everyday for the sacrifice of leaving all that is familiar in Los Angeles and embracing this journey in New York City."

JOANNA GLEASON
In 2004: Returned to her stage roots with off-Broadway's The Normal Heart at the Public Theater and the upcoming Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which premiered at San Diego's Old Globe.
Resolution for 2005: "This year I would like to hear more from my creative side than from my aching joints. I would like to give more and need less and acknowledge everyone who makes a genuine effort in his life."

MICHAEL ARDEN
In 2004: Played a sexually-awakened teen in the New York premiere of Bare, developed his new musical Easter Rising and landed the title role in Pippin at Reprise! in Los Angeles.
Resolution for 2005: "I hope in this year to come a bit closer to letting someone actually know me, and by doing that reveal to them my fears and weaknesses as well as what brings me joy. To be able to give the people who mean the most to me as much as they give to me. That and to actually use my gym membership."

DONNA LYNNE CHAMPLIN
In 2004: Joined the talented ensemble of Transport Group's revival of First Lady Suite, learned under the tutelage of Rita Moreno in Berkeley Rep's Master Class, went to the festivals for the new musicals Ellen Craft FringeNYC and Meet John Doe New York Musical Theater Festival and started rehearsals for Harold and Maude at Paper Mill.
Resolution for 2005: "I plan to put more actual elbow grease into the causes that I'm passionate about. This past election year proved to me that it's not enough anymore to just send a check and hope for the best. I have to get in there and do some actual heavy lifting myself, or I've no right to complain about the outcome."

ELLEN GREENE
In 2004: Wowed the crowd at GMHC's fall Showstoppers! benefit, returned to the New York and Los Angeles club circuit with her acclaimed show Torch! and recorded and released In His Eyes, her long-awaited new album.
Resolution for 2005: "To be grateful for what I have and to love with an open hand, an open mind and an open heart."

HEATHER RAFFO
In 2004: Starred in and wrote Nine Parts of Desire, her well-received theatrical documentary about the lives of contemporary Iraqi women.
Resolution for 2005: "I want to reach past New York and put Nine Parts of Desire on TV in people's living rooms so they can watch radical Iraqi women speak their minds as easily as they watch the war unfolding on the news. So, my New Years resolution is to get HBO to want to do this too!"

RAMONA KELLER
In 2004: Blended beautifully as one-third of a radio in Caroline, or Change and fabulously took center stage as a modern day R&B diva in Brooklyn, The Musical.
Resolution for 2005: "The one thing I want to do this year is to get out more. I tend to neglect my social life when I'm doing a show and I'm determined to find a way to have more fun."

ORFEH
In 2004: Sang about "Black Boys" for the Actors' Fund Hair concert, entertained the high rollers as star of Nights on Broadway II in Atlantic City and started work on a club act which she will premiere on March 7 at Feinstein's at the Regency.
Resolution for 2005: "To do my little part to dispel this notion that musical theater performers can't act-I'm thinking of throwing in some Shakespearean monologues between songs at my Feinstein's show! And of course to continue to take part in as many fundraisers as my schedule will allow with all my talented 'benefit friends.' Paging Julia Murney!"

ALAN CAMPBELL & LAUREN KENNEDY
In 2004: The married theatrical duo welcomed their first child into the world; Kennedy also slipped into Egyptian drag for a lead role in L.A.'s The Ten Commandments.
Resolution for 2005: Lauren: "Simplify, relax and enjoy! My daughter is teaching me all these things!" Alan: "See above."

MARTIN MORAN
In 2004: Exposed his soul for his acclaimed off-Broadway one-man play The Tricky Part, which he is currently adapting into a book.
Resolution for 2005: "To embrace with joy my advancing age."

SHOSHANA BEAN
In 2004: Left the original company of Broadway's Hairspray, worked on her upcoming CD in Miami and returned to NYC to cover the role of Elphaba in Wicked, which she will now assume full-time come January 11.
Resolution for 2005: "To be more politically and philanthropically involved. I'll be pulling favors from all my big shot friends this year…BENEFITS and more BENEFITS!!!"

SARA RAMIREZ
In 2004: Performed in Cabaret & Main at Williamstown Theatre Festival and landed the only female lead in the Broadway-bound Monty Python's Spamalot as a cow, a witch, a lounge singer and the mysterious Lady of the Lake, now playing in Chicago.
Resolution for 2005: "I always draw a blank when it comes to New Years resolutions. Hmm...Screw what other people think and be happy? Yeah, I think that covers it!"

KIRSTEN CHILDS
In 2004: Prepped her new musical The Miracle Brothers, set to debut off-Broadway next year.
Resolution for 2005: "Here's my New Years past and present resolution: To make Broadway the Great Not Mostly All White Way."

DENIS O'HARE
In 2004: Earned his second Tony nomination for Assassins, filmed Once Upon a Mattress for TV and romanced Christine Applegate in a rehearsal hall for the upcoming revival of Sweet Charity.
Resolution for 2005: "I am going to try to be quieter, slower and more organized. At the very least, I'm going to return more phone calls more quickly. And barring that, I'm going to save them on my answering machine for longer. Or at least write them down. I think."

DOUGLAS SILLS
In 2004: Played the sadistic dentist of Little Shop of Horrors and a suave male "companion" in the upcoming film Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
Resolution for 2005: "To find a way to re-ignite my instinct to be active in my passion for my country and its welfare. I'm an intense patriot and always have been but--like the other half of the country and many of my peers and colleagues--I'm feeling fatigued and contemplative about how to move forward toward peace, strength, inclusion, prosperity and fairness and away from fear, ignorance, distraction and greed. But it will come."

SHERIE RENE SCOTT
In 2004: Gave birth to baby boy Elijah, played heiress Christine Colgate in the pre-Broadway Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, started Sh-K-Boom spin-off Ghostlight Records and kept her figure!
Resolution for 2005: "To not suck in work or in life except when wonderfully appropriate of course."

KURT DEUTSCH
In 2004: Watched wife Sherie Rene Scott give birth to baby boy Elijah, earned a Grammy nomination for the Sh-K-Boom Records Broadway Inspirational Voices recording Great Joy and started Ghostlight Records, dedicated to classic musical theater recordings.
Resolution for 2005: "To be loving and open to receive all of the wonderfully appropriate things that are coming my way."

WILL CHASE
In 2004: Found himself buried alive in a stone tomb eight times a week as Radames in Aida and headlined the premiere of A Little Princess at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, California.
Resolution for 2005: "To spend more 'grown-up' time with Lori my wife, to make sure Daisy and Gracie my little girls know all the words to 'Imagine,' and to call my really good friends at least twice a week!"

JEFF MARX AND ROBERT LOPEZ
In 2004: Won a Tony Award for Best Score for Avenue Q, received a Grammy nomination for best cast album, started work on a secretive religion-themed musical with the South Park guys and a screenplay.
Resolution for 2005: "To finish a complete draft of our upcoming Universal Pictures movie musical by the end of the year it was due three months ago!."

MARIN MAZZIE
In 2004: Appeared in concerts and in Brigadoon at Reprise! with hubby Jason Danielely and reunited with the original cast of Passion for an October Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit concert.
Resolution for 2005: "In light of the catastrophe that just happened and also what happened here in our country in November, I feel the need to be more involved with human rights issues, causes and relief, and more involved in politics here in our country."

JACKIE HOFFMAN
In 2004: Kveched at Joe's Pub, took part in the Tribeca Theatre Festival's Downtown Plays, continued to make audiences laugh in Hairspray and benefits, benefits, benefits.
Resolution for 2005: "To not do any more shows that benefit others."

MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ
In 2004: Provided fab fashions for the divine Miss Bette Midler for her Kiss My Brass! tour and retooled the look of his Ruth Sherwood costumes for new Wonderful Town star Brooke Shields.
Resolution for 2005: "To be thankful for all the gifts of friends around me, to see more theater, especially Dame Edna, who, I'm ashamed to say, I've only seen live at Radio City!"

JEFFREY KUHN
In 2004: Made a splash as one of the fresh faces in the Broadway company of Assassins and landed the role of Boq in Wicked.
Resolution for 2005: "To strike a better balance between my personal and professional life. I'm in love and that deserves more focus, nurturing and attention than anything in my career. And, if you play your cards right, it'll pay the bills, too."

EUAN MORTON
In 2004: Earned a Tony Award nomination and a cult following for playing Boy George in the Broadway musical Taboo, starred in Caligula at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and played a series of concerts at off-Broadway's Zipper Theatre.
Resolution for 2005: "To give up trying to get in touch with Richard Carpenter as he is obviously not interested. Oh, and I plan to give up smoking."

JERRY MITCHELL
In 2004: Produced another successful Broadway Bares, choreographed La Cage aux Folles and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and started work on the film version of Hairspray and the stage version of Legally Blonde, which will mark his Broadway debut as director/choreographer.
Resolution for 2005: "To help make Broadway Bares XV spectacular-we are gonna kick ass and raise $525,000 plus! I love this community, I love this town and I still love Broadway!"

ANNE L. NATHAN
In 2004: Finished her long run as Miss Flannery in Thoroughly Modern Millie, played Emma Goldman in Assassins and won her current gig, playing Mama Morton in Chicago.
Resolution for 2005: "I'd like to get involved with a charitable organization. And, of course, get my face out of the feed bag and my butt to the gymnasium."

DOUG WRIGHT
In 2004: Won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for I Am My Own Wife.
Resolution for 2005: "I resolve to be more politically engaged. I'd like to do my own small part to help ensure that our beloved, once-progressive United States doesn't degenerate into the very thing we're purportedly fighting overseas: a woefully misguided fundamentalist theocracy. On the creative front, I resolve to talk about writing less, and to do it more."

EMILY BERGL
In 2004: Starred in off-Broadway's Fiction and Broadway's The Rivals.
Resolution for 2005: "My New Year's resolution is to stop dancing on escalators. I fell while doing that on opening night of The Rivals!"

BRYAN BATT
In 2004: Redid homes around the country as one of the designers on Guess Who's Coming to Decorate? and started standing by for the role of Albin in La Cage aux Folles.
Resolution for 2005: "To not eat after shows, to set aside an hour a day to write, to get over my air travel anxiety now that I often commute to my hometown of New Orleans due to my new business there, to in promote unity, acceptance and equality through our diversity in this now unfortunately divided nation, and lastly, to express my gratitude as much as possible for everything and everyone in my good life. Did that all sound like a pageant answer, or is it just me?"

JOHN TARTAGLIA
In 2004: Earned his first Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his work in Avenue Q and premiered a cabaret act.
Resolution for 2005: "Just like last year, to e-mail people back quicker I'm SO horrible at that! and beat my post-show addiction to chocolate!"

ANIKA NONI ROSE
In 2004: Starred in Caroline, or Change, winning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical her work in the show.
Resolution for 2005: "This year I resolve to live life each day to the fullest, because you only live once. If you wait until you have enough money or enough time, you'll never do it."

NATASCIA DIAZ
In 2004: Starred in Hail Mary at the Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo and kicked up her heels in rehearsals for the upcoming Sweet Charity.
Resolution for 2005: "I consider it most important to always find and hold an infinite reserve of kindness and forbearance for my family, friends and colleagues. Always--by simply remembering that everyone wakes up in the morning wanting the same thing, to be the best person and artist that they can be each in their own way. Hopefully through the daily practice of this pursuit and being true to myself without fear--but with lots of faith--I hope to maintain that state of grace from which springs infinite possibility."

JASON DANIELEY
In 2004: Performed in concerts and L.A.'s Brigadoon with wife Marin Mazzie.
Resolution for 2005: "I resolve to stop talking and to start doing, damn it! Taking the bull by the horns and dragging it to the ground. Then standing on its back and shouting to the world, 'Look out!'"

DEBBIE GRAVITTE
In 2004: Played Mama Morton in Broadway's Chicago and performed in concerts from coast-to-coast.
Resolution for 2005: "In 2005, I resolve to do Seesaw, Funny Girl and The Pajama Game in rep, chair the local PTA, record my new CD and watch my husband in The Light in the Piazza every night."

DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA
In 2004: Received her second Tony Award nomination for Anna in the Tropics, took to stage of Manhattan Theatre Club for the dramaBetween Us and gave birth to baby boy Luca Ariel.
Resolution for 2005: "To be a Mother. A real, serious mother And to stay stopped smoking cigarettes."

KERRY BUTLER
In 2004: Spent six months on Skid Row as Audrey in Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors and headlined the world premiere of the musical version of The Opposite of Sex at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco.
Resolution for 2005: "Most people know I have a crazy addiction to Disney World and this year I would like to break that addiction. I would like to travel beyond Epcot's World Pavilion to a whole new world-See? My brain can't even function without Disney metaphors! This year I took an amazing trip to Equador and now I want to travel all over the world. So Adios!"

ISABEL KEATING
In 2004: Attended her first Tony Award ceremony as a nominee for her praised work as Judy Garland in the smash hit The Boy from Oz.
Resolution for 2005: "To play my love Mark Berman's new jazz R&B CD The Genesis Project every day for inspiration it blows me away and to whup my buddy Mitchel David Federan at poker next time I see him he will rue the day he gave me my very own set of poker cards and chips!"

CHARLES BUSCH
In 2004: Played Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame in Maine and Sag Harbor, Dolly Levi in a November reading of The Matchmaker in Boston and Irish O'Flanagan in the annual holiday presentation of his play Times Square Angel at Theater for the New City.
Resolution for 2005: "To go to sleep by midnight and stop watching TV till four AM, get up by seven, finish all my work by noon and spend the rest of the day going to museums, studying languages, sculpting in marble and weaving at my loom."

DEBORAH GIBSON
In 2004: Played Marta in Company and Maggie in Brigadoon for Los Angeles audiences and worked on new music.
Resolution for 2005:"I resolve to help place stray animals as opposed to taking them into my home. Last time I tried it three days ago, I almost got my eyes scratched out by a seemingly sweet cat who clearly had never seen dogs before! So if anyone without dogs wants an adult female cat… I also resolve to be brave and fearless in my decisions this year--not to care so much about what other people think. Betty Buckley told me that was my main acting issue, that I am a people pleaser!"

HARVEY FIERSTEIN
In 2004: Grew back his eyebrows after leaving his Tony-winning drag role in Hairspray and kept the facial hair coming in preparation to play Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, starting January 4.
Resolution for 2005: "I plan to open my eyes and see who is around me. It might be nice to have a new relationship in 2005."

ALICE RIPLEY
In 2004: Rocked out and released CD with new band Ripley, appeared in off-Broadway's Five Flights and the Kennedy Center's The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber as well as on TV's All My Children.
Resolution for 2005: "I'll promise myself I'll misbehave more often."

ANN HARADA
In 2004: Delighted audiences as Christmas Eve in Tony winner Avenue Q and gave birth to son Elvis in November.
Resolution for 2005: "To be the best new mom I can be while trying to get back in the swing of doing eight shows a week. Simplify and prioritize...and, knowing that it takes a village to raise a child, to shamelessly call upon my fellow villagers for help and advice!"

JOHN EPPERSON AKA LYPSINKA
In 2004: Starred in New York City Opera's Cinderella, the Foundry Theatre's The Roaring Girle and a new nightclub show called The Passion of the Crawford as well as performing at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. in a John Epperson in Repertory series.
Resolution for 2005: "I will continue to hope that Christmas and New Year's will come only once every two years and to try and not get so perturbed when I feel like I'm being mowed down by baby strollers on the sidewalks of New York. Also, I hope to take a trip to Europe to celebrate my birthday, and to behave in the nicest manner possible to show them we're not all horrible on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Bush, are you listening?"

JORDAN GELBER
In 2004: Spent a happy year on Avenue Q as struggling stand-up comedian Brian and appeared in the acclaimed HBO movie Everyday People.
Resolution for 2005: "To worry less, keep the weight off and hit the gym more, keep my apartment clean, stay focused and still have fun, be social, finally buy a place in this city and then keep that one clean, and to find a long-lasting relationship with someone who isn't a puppet. God willing, I'll follow through on at least two of those. Anyone know a good cleaning service?"

MICHAEL MCELROY
In 2004: Toured the country in Big River and earned a Grammy nomination for his work on Great Joy, the first holiday album recorded by his Broadway Inspirational Voices.
Resolution for 2005: "Keep asking the tough questions, work harder and let go of all the junk leftover from 2003."

MEREDITH PATTERSON
In 2004: Worked with Steve Martin for the West Coast premiere of The Underpants, headlined the premiere of White Christmas in San Francisco, co-starred in the blockbuster film Princess Diaries 2: A Royal Engagement and married longtime beau Shonn Wiley.
Resolution for 2005: "This year I will stop wondering what the future may hold, breathe and be present in every day and with every friend and family member! I will completely relish in being a newlywed and even go on a honeymoon! And I'll do jobs that I am really passionate and excited about. Life goes by too quickly."

STEPHANIE D'ABRUZZO
In 2004: Got dolled up for the Tony Awards as a nominee for her heartfelt work in Broadway's hit musical Avenue Q.
Resolution for 2005: "My New Year's resolution is to do my Christmas cards. Sadly, this is not a joke."

DON STEPHENSON
In 2004: Scared small children as Renfield in Broadway's goth tuner Dracula.
Resolution for 2005: "To sleep more than four or five hours a night new baby at home!."

NOAH RACEY
In 2004: Hoofed in Broadway's Never Gonna Dance and earned raves for headlining Where's Charley? at the Goodspeed Opera House.
Resolution for 2005: "To tell my loved ones how much they mean to me at least 27 more times than I did last year."

JOHN HILLNER
In 2004:
Resolution for 2005: "To find the balance in cultivating the treasures of family and 'The Biz.' True happiness for me would be to have ultimate family time and carve the successful career around that focus. Without that core support from those closest to you, every other success seems hollow."

DAVID ZIPPEL
In 2004: Became the toast of the West End by providing the lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest The Woman in White and directed and co-wrote Princesses, which premiered at Goodspeed Musicals in anticipation for 2005 Seattle and Broadway productions.
Resolution for 2005: "To always remember to enjoy the creative process and that we are not curing anything except for an occasional ham."

ANDY KARL
In 2004: Received divine reviews as one of off-Broadway's Altar Boyz returning to Dodger Stages February 15 and went zip-a-dee-doo-dahing around the country in Disney Theatrical's On the Record.
Resolution for 2005: "To write and create more music. It's a passion that brings me great joy which at some point, I'd love to be able to share with others."

ANDREW LIPPA
In 2004: Premiered his Little Princess musical on the west coast and wrote songs for the stage musical Betty Boop and the movie musical Asphalt Beach.
Resolution for 2005: "To learn another language. I already know English so where's the fun in that? And Pig Latin is so easy!"

DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
In 2004: Saw his comedy Fuddy Meers premiere in the West End and started work on the stage adaptation of Betty Boop.
Resolution for 2005: "I'd like to finally start smoking this year. I know I make that resolution every January, but this time I'm really going to try and stick with the plan, and not poop out after a couple weeks like I did last year. I'd also like to gain about twenty pounds."

ADAM PASCAL
In 2004: Played the final performances of Broadway long-runners Cabaret and Aida, released the album Civilian and landed the role of Roger in the upcoming film of Rent.
Resolution for 2005: "I never make resolutions. I'm already perfect!!! Just kidding."

TOVAH FELDSHUH
In 2004: Broke records playing Golda Meir in Golda's Balcony, the longest running one-woman show in the history of Broadway. Next stop: Los Angeles.
Resolution for 2005: "To take the Prime Minister out to Los Angeles without a face lift, botox or liposuction. To create 'wrinkle-chic' in Hollywood and not to be mistaken for Fat Albert: The Movie. To get Golda's Balcony televised. I love you Broadway and New York acting community, and will miss you!"