Best Performances You Have Seen — Page 4

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Laura Bell Bundy- Legally Blonde
Let me just say, i saw the show twice, in San Francisco and early in the Broadway run and I really thought she was phenomenal. Vocally fantastic, hilarious, touching, and so infectiously joyful. Hey, that's how I feel.

Audra McDonald- 110 in the Shade

Liev Schreiber- Talk Radio

Alice Ripley and J. Robert Spencer- Next to Normal

Hadyn Gwynne- Billy Elliot

Movin' Out (Nat'l Tour)- Company
I'm a huge dance fan, and I remember just not being able to breath at how stunned I was by that production. One of my most powerful theatrical experiences to this day. And so much freaking fun.

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Of course Patti in "Gypsy"
Fantasia in "The Color Purple"
The entire revival cast of "HAIR"!
Anika Noni Rose in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

if we are talking dvd also, I would add Raul Esparza in "Company", Audra McDonald in "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony" and Kristen Chenoweth in "Candide".

The whole cast of Next to Normal, honestly the most dynamic cast ever, Alice Ripley is a genius and I'm sure Jen Damiano has a huge future.

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DONNA MURPHY - Lovemusik
ANGELA LANSBURY - Sweeney Todd
ALICE RIPLEY - Next To Normal
MARIA FRIEDMAN - Passion (West End)
SUSAN EGAN - Cabaret
BERNADETTE PETERS - Gypsy
POLLY BERGEN - Follies
ALICE RIPLEY - The Baker's Wife (Papermill)
LARA PULVER - The Last Five Years (London)

BRENT CARVER - Kiss Of the Spider Woman
MICHAEL CERVERIS - Lovemusik
MICHAEL CERVERIS - Sweeney Todd
RAUL ESPARZA - Company
BARRET FOA - Spelling Bee
ANEURIN BARNARD - Spring Awakening (West End)

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Unfortunately I have not seen many shows. Of the ones I've seen the two that stood out would be:

Kate Fleetwood: Macbeth - still blown away after a year and 4 months of seeing it
Alice Ripley: Next to Normal