Best Performance of 2016-17

[dianamorales]

Best Performance of 2016-17#1

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:11pm

What's the best performance (period) you've seen this season- play, musical, broadway, off-broadway, tour, or even regional? I'll start-

Glenn Close-Sunset Boulevard

[BroadwayRox3588]

Best Performance of 2016-17#2

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:12pm

Ben Platt - Dear Evan Hansen

[ChildofEarth]

Best Performance of 2016-17#3

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:33pm

Lena Hall as Hedwig on the Hedwig and the Angry Inch tour.

[cam5y]

Best Performance of 2016-17#4

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:37pm

It's not my favourite musical, but it's my favourite performance by a country mile - Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen

[wonderfulwizard11]

Best Performance of 2016-17#5

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:38pm

Female: Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2

Male: Gideon Glick, Significant Other 

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[hmaybway]

Best Performance of 2016-17#6

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:43pm

Ben Platt - Dear Evan Hansen 

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[TheThreadMaster]

Best Performance of 2016-17#7

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:49pm

Gideon Glick-Significant Other

 

[Laurapattifan]

Best Performance of 2016-17#8

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:54pm

Gideon Glick in Significant Other

[poisonivy2]

Best Performance of 2016-17#9

Posted: 5/1/17 at 8:57pm

Musical:

Ben Platt - Dear Evan Hansen

Play:

Anthony Azizi - Oslo

[Capeguy]

Best Performance of 2016-17#10

Posted: 5/1/17 at 9:01pm

Ben Platt

[Andy51]

Best Performance of 2016-17#11

Posted: 5/1/17 at 9:02pm

Play:  Bobby Cannavale, The Hairy Ape

Musical:  Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen

[Chicken_Flavor]

Best Performance of 2016-17#12

Posted: 5/1/17 at 9:09pm

Jordan Brown as Cunningham national tour

Gideon Glick in Significant Other

[mulligan3]

Best Performance of 2016-17#13

Posted: 5/1/17 at 9:20pm

Hate to be cliche, but Ben Platt by far for me this season.  

[JudyDenmark]

Best Performance of 2016-17#14

Posted: 5/1/17 at 10:09pm

Ben Platt for sure. One of the best performances I've seen in my life, not just this season. But I also want to give a shoutout to the ensemble of Hello, Dolly!

[Call_me_jorge]

Best Performance of 2016-17#15

Posted: 5/1/17 at 11:37pm

I would say Ben Platt, but I want to be original. Stephanie J. Block. 

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[Lot666]

Best Performance of 2016-17#16

Posted: 5/3/17 at 5:16pm

dianamorales said: "What's the best performance (period) you've seen this season- play, musical, broadway, off-broadway, tour, or even regional? I'll start-

Glenn Close-Sunset Boulevard"

^ This one, followed closely by Jake Gyllenhaal in Sunday in the Park with George.

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[BakerWilliams]

Best Performance of 2016-17#17

Posted: 5/3/17 at 5:19pm

Nicole Rodernburg in The Antipodes

[little_sally]

Best Performance of 2016-17#18

Posted: 5/3/17 at 5:49pm

Laurie Metcalf in A Doll's House, Part 2

Michael Aronov and Anthony Azizi in Oslo

Brandon Uranowitz in Falsettos

Lucas Steele in Great Comet

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[quizking101]

Best Performance of 2016-17#19

Posted: 5/3/17 at 5:56pm

Going based on what I've seen:

Female (Play) - Allison Janney (Six Degrees of Separation)

Female (Musical) - Glenn Close (Sunset Boulevard)

Male (Play) - Gideon Glick (Significant Other)

Male (Musical) - Jake Gyllenhaal (Sunday in the Park with George)

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[pupscotch]

Best Performance of 2016-17#20

Posted: 5/3/17 at 6:01pm

Andy Karl in Groundhog Day. That performance is just a masterclass in musical comedy. Him and Annaleigh Ashford would be my two.

[MsEmilia]

Best Performance of 2016-17#21

Posted: 5/3/17 at 6:45pm

Glenn Close - Sunset Boulevard

Janet McTeer - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Sally Field - The Glass Menagerie 

Eva Noblezeda - Miss Saigon

[bwayphreak234]

Best Performance of 2016-17#22

Posted: 5/3/17 at 7:30pm

Bette Midler - Hello, Dolly! 

Laurie Metcalf - A Doll's House, Part 2

Andy Karl - Groundhog Day

Gideon Glick - Significant Other

*Also, special shot out to Deborah Cox in The Bodyguard at Paper Mill

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[The Other One]

Best Performance of 2016-17#23

Posted: 5/3/17 at 7:53pm

From what I have seen (not much this season, to be honest), Laurie Metcalf in A Doll's House, Part 2 by far.

The buzz around Ben Platt makes me want to see him in Dear Evan Hansen, though I doubt I will be able to afford or time it any time soon.

[Robbie2]

Best Performance of 2016-17#24

Posted: 5/3/17 at 10:02pm

Ben Platt...Andy Karl...and of course Bette Midler!

 

"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George

[Glittergrrl]

Best Performance of 2016-17#25

Posted: 5/3/17 at 10:41pm

Stephanie Block in Falsettos.  

Ben Platt was outstanding in DEH, and totally deserves that Tony, but I don't love the show.