Best Performances You Have Seen

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Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:34pm

List some of the best stage performances you have ever seen. Doesn't matter how many.

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I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:38pm

Nathan Lane in THE PRODUCERS

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:42pm

Jayne Houdyshell in WELL

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:43pm

Gavin Creel as Claude in HAIR and Jennifer D. in Next to Normal (among the entire cast :)

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:45pm

Carol Channing in HELLO, DOLLY!

Patti LuPone in GYPSY

Patti LuPone in MASTER CLASS

Elizabeth Ashely in CAT..TIN ROOF

Stacy Keach in HAMLET

Anthony Perkins in EQUUS

Anthony Hopkins in EQUUS

Jeremy Irons in THE REAL THING

Angela Lansbury in MAME

Martin Short in THE GOODBYE GIRL

Angela Lansbury in SWEENEY TODD

James Earl Jones in THE GREAT WHITE HOPE

Bea Lillie in HIGH SPIRITS

Pearl Bailey in HELLO, DOLLY

Angela Lansbury in DEAR WORLD

Patrick Wilson in THE FULL MONTY

Patrick Wilson in BAREFOOT IN THE PARK


almost forgot: That Streisand Woman in FUNNY GIRL

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Updated On: 8/30/09 at 09:45 PM

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:47pm

Dollypop- You are so lucky. You have seen all the greats.

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I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."

#7

re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:48pm

Don't judge mine please.

Karen Olivo- West Side Story
Alice Ripley- Next to Normal
J Robert Spencer- Next to Normal

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I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:55pm

Patti LuPone in Gypsy
Alice Ripley and Bobby Spencer in next to normal
Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
Deanna Dunagan/ Amy Morton in August: Osage County
Phylicia Rashad in August: Osage County
Nathan Lane in The Producers
Dan Radcliffe in Equus
Brian Stokes Mitchell in Ragtime
Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth in Wicked
Heather Headley in Aida
Cherry Jones in Doubt
Cathy Rigby in Peter Pan
Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman

Updated On: 8/30/09 at 09:55 PM

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:57pm

Hmmm I would have to second Gavin Creel in Hair and add Will Swenson in the same show.
Lin Manuel Miranda in In the Heights is another one for me.

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"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:58pm

Oops, I forgot Gwen Verdon in SWEET CHARITY

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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:04pm

Christine Ebersole- Grey Gardens
Victoria Clark- The Light in the Piazza
Jefferson Mays- I Am My Own Wife
Geoffrey Rush- Exit the King
Audra McDonald- Carousel
Brent Carver- Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Brian Stokes Mitchell- Kiss Me, Kate

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"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:05pm

Patti Lupone - Gypsy
Alice Ripley - Next to Normal
Cathy Rigby - Peter Pan
Idina Menzel - Wicked
Victoria Clark - The Light in the Piazza
Raul Esparza - Company
Sean Hayes - Damn Yankees
Jane Fonda - 33 Variations
Fantasia Barino - The Color Purple
the cast of 13!

Updated On: 9/3/09 at 10:05 PM

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:08pm

Stephanie Mills- The Wiz

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:13pm

Gavin Creel and WIll Swenson - Hair
Heather Headley - Aida
Anthony Barille - Tommy
All of the Puppets in Avenue Q

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:13pm

Heidi Blickenstaff in Little Mermaid

Susan Marley (U/S for Violet) in August: Osage County

Howie Michael Smith in Avenue Q

Marcia Gay Harden in God of Carnage

Scarlett Strallen in Mary Poppins

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:21pm

Jeremy Piven in Mercury Poisons Me.

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Updated On: 8/31/09 at 10:21 PM

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:23pm

LMAO!
Blaxxs responses never cease to ammuse me :)

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"Everything in life, is only for now" -Avenue Q

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:32pm

Alice Ripley - Next to Normal
Will Swenson - Hair
Laura Benanti - Gypsy
Johanna Day - August: Osage County
Amy Morton - August: Osage County
Phylicia Rashad - August: Osage County
Boyd Gaines - Gypsy
Sarah Steele - Speech and Debate
Sutton Foster - Little Women
Raul Esparza - Company
Barbara Walsh - Company

Edit: Jesus, I forgot to say Jenna Russell and Daniel Evans!

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Updated On: 8/30/09 at 10:32 PM

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:32pm

Holy sh**, Dollypop. I'm jealous.

#20

re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:34pm

Glinda I completly forgot

I second Johanna Day 100%!!

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"Everything in life, is only for now" -Avenue Q

#21

re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:41pm

I think Johanna Day was a better Barbara than Amy Morton. There I said it.

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#22

re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:51pm

Alice Ripley - next to normal
Katie Rose Clarke - The Light in the Piazza
Bernadette Peters - Gypsy
Katie Rose Clarke - Wicked
Lisa Brescia - Wicked
J. Robert Spencer - next to normal
Ted Keegan - The Phantom of the Opera

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:55pm

Anthony Heald in EQUIVOCATION at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

I'm telling you guys, this play will win the pulitzer this year.

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 11:05pm

Michael Cerveris - Sweeney Todd
Angela Lansbury - Blithe Spirit
Christine Ebersole - Grey Gardens
Phylicia Rashad - A Raisin In The Sun
Patti LuPone - Gypsy
Bernadette Peters - Gypsy
Cherry Jones - Doubt

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re: Best Performances You Have Seen

Posted: 8/30/09 at 11:07pm

James885, what do you think to Cerveris on the 05 Sweeney cast album?

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