Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Best Show You've Seen Recently...
#0Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 2:01am
So out of the past few months, or whatever you consider recently, what is the best show you've seen (Broadway, however if it was an off or off off or whatever production it was, mention that)?
My favorite would have to be DRS
Seen Spamalot and The Light in The Piazza and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels recently (saw some other shows, but not Broadway) and DRS is my favorite, it was so funny. I heard some friends tlel me they saw it without Norbert there and I honestly don't think it'd be as good without him... he did an amazing job, the cast has great chemistry and Nobert and Lithgow do awesome. It was so funny, great show.
If I could say a non-Broadway show it'd be seeing But I'm a Cheerleader like a lil over a month ago, that show was great.
So yea, that's mine... how bout you guys?
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#1re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 2:06am
Hands down sweeney. I was about 90% satisfied. Avenue q as well, did not expect me to like it so much, as I have always been bitter over it winning the tony still. However, when lottery calls! Got there and absolutely adored it more than I ever imagined. Barrett, stephanie, and the rest of the cast are just brilliant
edit; and when I say 90% pleased, thats pretty damn good because it is in my opinion, what I see as the most perfect show in musical theater history. I had such high expectations only because of the high regards I hold the show in. It is my favorite and when seeing it loved it sooo much. For it to have hit 100, I felt it should have had more of the music(I was pleased they added Judges Johanna though!), and I had seen the first preview. I can only imagine the musical cuts having some effect on me knowing that they even edited it further after I saw it. The cast, concept, instruments, orchestrations were top notch. Couldnt be more pleased with casting choices, just loved it so much.
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Posted: 10/28/05 at 2:12amgood news- i have never even heard of it until i saw it :S- but absolutely adored it
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#4re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 7:44amThe Light in the Piazza back in August. That was glorious.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#5re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 9:05am
The Light in the Piazza
The Odd Couple
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
jacco
Stand-by Joined: 7/29/05
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Posted: 10/28/05 at 9:10am
The Light in the Piazza on Broadway.
Billy Elliot in the west End
Tick Tick Boom in the West End
#7re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 9:24amSweeney!!
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
AndiV
Stand-by Joined: 2/8/05
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Posted: 10/28/05 at 9:48amDirty Rotten Scoundrels and See What I Wanna See...
So long status quo/
I think I just let go/
You make me want to be/
BRAVE
Madame X
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/03
#9re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 10:05amPeople Like Us and The Pavillion
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#10re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 10:13amLight in the Piazza and Doubt
Taylor the latte boy,
Bring me java, bring me joy!
Taylor the latte boy,
I love him, I love him, I love him
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 10:14amCarol Channing's "The First 80 Years Are The Hardest" at Feinsteins. Sheer bliss!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
mint0621
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/04
#13re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 10:21amSWEENEY TODD
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#14re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 10:26amSweeney.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#15re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 10:48amanother vote for Sweeney!
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"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#16re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 10:53am
See What I Wanna See
Pillowman
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
(Most enjoyable car wreck)In My Life
#17re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 11:02amBased on what I've heard, from the opinions of people that I trust, if I were responding to this thread after November 18th, I think that I might be saying "Sweeney Todd" but since I have not seen this revival yet I would have to say "The Light in the Piazza".
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Posted: 10/28/05 at 11:03am
The Light in the Piazza i saw a few months ago and it was astounding. i really didn't know what to expect but i was blown away by the sweeping emotion of the storyline and music. it was also the last show that my whole family got to see together so that was something very special to me.
i saw spelling bee last week and loved it, it was soo funny; it was also my boyfriend's first broadway show and he's starting to really like bway, i dont think he really understood my passion for it before i took him to see spelling bee.
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
nelliecollins
Understudy Joined: 6/24/05
#20re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 2:12pm
It's been a few months since I've seen a Broadway show, but the best things I've seen recently were The Light in the Piazza and The Pillowman.
Sweeney is at the top of my list of things I'd like to see right now.
#21re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 2:18pmThe Light in the Piazza. I haven't seen a musical in a while ,but I'm seeing Sweeney soon.
#23re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 2:33pm
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
I'm seeing Sweeney in a few weeks though, can't wait. :)
#24re: Best Show You've Seen Recently...
Posted: 10/28/05 at 2:40pm
Broadway/New York Show: Papermill's Ragtime
Boston: The Boyfriend! (It was AMAZING!!! Jessica Grove and Andrea Chamberlain were awesome)
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