BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)
BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)
BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#1
Posted: 5/8/08 at 5:59pm
CONGRATULATIONS TO BROADWAY FOR ANOTHER FULL-TO-THE-BRIM AND ENGAGING SEASON!
Following Opening Night of Top Girls last night, the 2007-08 season came to an end; consisting of 35 new productions, including 8 new musicals, 10 new plays, 4 musical revivals, and 13 play revivals.
QUICK POLL: What are a few moments you most enjoyed/remember from the Great White Way this year? (Please no fights. Just share your simple one-sentence pleasures, thanks.)
THE SEASON INCLUDED:
A Bronx Tale
A Catered Affair
August: Osage County
Boeing Boeing
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Come Back, Little Sheba
Cry-Baby
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Farnsworth Invention
Glory Days
Grease
Gypsy
The Homecoming
In The Heights
Is He Dead?
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Macbeth
Mauritius
November
Old Acquaintance
Passing Strange
Pygmalion
The Ritz
Rock n Roll
The Seafarer
South Pacific
Sunday in the Park with George
The 39 Steps
The Country Girl
The Little Mermaid
Thurgood
Top Girls
Xanadu
Young Frankenstein
Updated On: 5/8/08 at 05:59 PM
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#2
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:02pmPatti's 'Rose's Turn' and Gypsy in it's entirety.
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#2
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:03pmThe b/e in THE HOMECOMING!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#3
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:04pm
Stew and his wonderful final lines in Passing Strange.
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#4
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:06pmThe beautiful overture and set of South pacific
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#5
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:06pmNLB in Is He Dead period
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#6
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:06pmEverything about Passing Strange, the impressive design aspects of the "Sunday.." revival, and all the wonderful performers in Is He Dead?
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#7
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:07pm
The entirety of Sunday in the Park with George; but specifically the opening sequence (brush-stroke and trees) and the soaring last 60-seconds of Act I creating the painting.
Updated On: 5/8/08 at 06:07 PM
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#8
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:08pm
Deanna Dunagan, melting down at the end of August: Osage County.
Second Place: The Pretzel Man Speech from Passing Strange
Third: Yound David Sarnoff telling a government official to "f*** off" in The Farnsworth Invention.
Great season!
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#9
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:20pm
In order of when they come to my head:
Andrea Martin's "He Vas My Boyfriend"
Ciaran Hinds's monologue about hell in "The Seafarer"
Andrew Lippa's upbeat music for "The Farnsworth Invention"
Daniel Evans's "Finishing the Hat"
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#10
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:22pm
Musical-
LuPone singing Rose's Turn.
Play-
the last 15 minutes of the second act (really the entire play, but this particular scene immediately comes to mind) of August: Osage County. This was one of the few times when, as the lights came up, I was saying myself, "No, no, go back down, let's keep going."
Updated On: 5/8/08 at 06:22 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#11
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:23pmIn the Height's Carnaval del Barrio
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#12
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:27pm
Have seen 15 with 5 to be seen . Not to bad
Some we had no desire to see & some are closed.
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#13
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:32pm
Play:
Anika Noni Rose's thrilling Act I performance in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.
Musical:
The characters from George's painting bowing to him and singing "Sunday" in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. I was in tears.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#14
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:37pm"I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW!"
Featured Actor Joined: 2/4/07
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#15
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:42pmThe group numbers in In the Heights or Amsterdam in Passing Strange
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#16
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:43pmAt the end of the second act of Sunday in the Park with George, when George turns around and everyone in the painting bows to him, the entire theatre erupted with sheers and applause. It was truly magical.
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#17
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:45pmFor its fun-factor, XANADU would be what I enjoyed most from this season.
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#18
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:46pm
Sorry, but I have a few:
1) "Everything's Coming Up Roses"
- When the Act 1 curtain came down, I realized that I had been trembling and literally sitting on the edge of my seat with my mouth hanging open for the last 32 bars. It was like being a kid utterly entranced by something simply remarkable and impactful.
2) "Sunday in the Park with George" cast bowing to George during the Act 2 "Sunday".
- I sobbed.
3) Daniel Evans' childlike gasp and expression of utter joy when he turned upstage to see the white "canvas" just before the show's final black-out.
- I whimpered, smiled out loud, and then sobbed again.
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#19
Posted: 5/8/08 at 6:48pm
August: Osage County. Period.
This coming from an almsot strictly musical theatre person.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#20
Posted: 5/8/08 at 7:01pm
In order:
1) The final few minutes of August: Osage County
2) Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman's "Evil Woman" in Xanadu
3) Ankia Noni Rose's monologues from Cat
4) "96,000" and the title number from In the Heights
5) "If Momma Was Married" from Gypsy...I'm naming it because it was always a skippable song on recordings and such but with Ann Leigh Larkin and Laura Benanti belting it out, it became a showstopper.
6) The majority of the last half of the first act of Is He Dead?
7) Patti LuPone's "Some People"
Andrea Martin's introduction to "Puttin' on the Ritz" from Young Frankenstein
9) "I Stayed" and the concluding scenes of A Catered Affair
10) A tie between the curtain call of Boeing-Boeing and "A Little Upset"'s dance break in Cry-Baby
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#21
Posted: 5/8/08 at 7:02pm
I changed the rules of the poll from "one moment" to "a few moments" (haha) because some of the ones you've all listed above are excellent!
Aside from Sunday in the Park with George (I was tear-streaked through the entire thing, my pinnacle theatre-experience to-date)...
The relentless demands and berating of Richard on Sharky. (I'm pretty sure I hissed "Jeezus, leave him the f*ck alone" out-loud about 5 times)
"WHERE'S THE BEEF!?!?" (how insane was that shiz!) and when Steve asks Jean to do a power-hit (I said "Oh hell no!" from the rear-balcony so loud, a hot British guy next to me laughed so hard, he fell on me...)
Arnie Burton and Cliff Saunders are hands-down the reason why there needs to be a Best Ensemble Tony-category
Being in the front-mezzanine as the first South Pacific Broadway audience to experience the "Overture" secret.
Updated On: 5/8/08 at 07:02 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#22
Posted: 5/8/08 at 7:07pmEug...what is the "overture secret" from SOUTH PACIFIC?
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#23
Posted: 5/8/08 at 7:09pm
So many from August: Osage County, especially the end of the second act and "Eat the fish b****"
Laura's "Strip" and Patti's "Rose's Turn" in Gypsy.
re: BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)#24
Posted: 5/8/08 at 7:11pmWickedRocks: Duh! It's a secret!!! PM me if you really want to know (though pretty much everyone on the boards knows). It was just flippin' remarkable to be the FIRST audience to see it happen.
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