BROADWAY SEASON 2007-08 CONCLUDES! (Quick Poll)

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

The b/e in THE HOMECOMING!

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The beautiful overture and set of South pacific

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Everything about Passing Strange, the impressive design aspects of the "Sunday.." revival, and all the wonderful performers in Is He Dead?

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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!

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

Have seen 15 with 5 to be seen . Not to bad

Some we had no desire to see & some are closed.

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"I'M RUNNING THINGS NOW!"

At 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.

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.

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

Eug...what is the "overture secret" from SOUTH PACIFIC?

WickedRocks: 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.