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Mr Roxy
#0Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 8:31am

In No Particular Order

1. Say Goodnight Gracie
2. Papa
3. Clarence Darrow
4. Solitary Confinement

I asuume, once I see them, these will be added to the list

I Am My Own Wife
Goldas Balcony


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JO125
#1re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 9:14am

"Say Goodnight Gracie" was great.
I definitely recommend "I Am My Own Wife".

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CourtneyM
#2re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 11:03am

say goodnight gracie
star f*ckers


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Unknown User
#3re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 12:03pm

All Time BEST Solo Shows

The Belle of Amherst

and of course
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Updated On: 8/30/03 at 12:03 PM

skingdom
#4re: re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 12:07pm

jefferson mays in i am my own wife.

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BrdwyThtr
#5re: re: re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 4:41pm

Elaine Stritch At Liberty

jo
#6re: re: re: re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 8:35pm

Not on Broadway ( but hopefully it will get a chance to get there) -- but it played at the Donmar Warehouse on the West End:

Michael Ball's critically acclaimed "ALONE TOGETHER" - a story about the life of a performer told in songs and half-songs ( encompassing songs of Broadway's and America's best composers - Jolson, Berlin, Porter, Gershwin, Styne, Kahn, Herman, Schwartz, Rodgers/Hammerstein/Hart, Ellington, Kern, Merrill, Sondheim,Yorke, Bowie, Guettel and many more). There are no words spoken but simply a musical tapestry of song and acting.

jo

jo
#7re: re: re: re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/30/03 at 8:38pm

Btw, if you're interested, ALONE TOGETHER is available on DVD. It was released on Region 2 and Region 1 - but I am not sure if there are still available Region 1 copies. Try Amazon.co.uk.


jo Updated On: 8/30/03 at 08:38 PM

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thirdrowcenter
#8re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/31/03 at 5:01pm

I Am My Own Wife----Brilliant

Golda's Balconey------Tovah Feldshuh is beyond fantastic

I saw Say Goodnight Gracie and really enjoyed it also but
the above two left me thinking I had witnessed something extraordinary.

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thirdrowcenter
#9re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/31/03 at 5:19pm

Jefferson Mays plays about ten or so completely different characters and the audience is spellbound. You cannot excape his eyes. Please see it.

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MasterLcZ
#10re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/31/03 at 5:35pm

I agree with the posters who mentioned I AM MY OWN WIFE. It was even more thought-provoking the second time seeing it. It is unlike anything I have ever seen and offers no easy explinations.

Ditto THE SEARCH FOR INTELLEGENT LIFE...but I'd LOVE for Lily & Jane to write a sequel.

ALONE TOGETHER sounds very intreguing.


"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"

Unknown User
#11re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 8/31/03 at 7:28pm

FULL GALLOP comes to mind

as well as the David Hare piece, the name is escaping me.


One musn't forget A CHRISTMAS CAROL, whether with Patrick Stewart, Alec McGowen, or Charles Dickens.

BB

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nyctopone
#12re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 9/1/03 at 8:36pm

Belle of Amherst - Julie Harris is a goddess
Any one man show with Spaulding Gray


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QueenS
#13re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 9/3/03 at 1:35pm

Tru- with Robert Morse
Freak- with John Leguizamo
Shirley Valentine

And the end all be all, Search for Intelligent Signs of Life...

SONDHEIM8
#14re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 9/3/03 at 1:43pm

Tru-Robert Morse

Elaine Strich-At Liberty

Search For Signs....-Lily Tomlin

Barrymore-Christopher Plummer









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TRACY: It must be the low-watt institutional lighting!

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TEACHEROFTHEATER
#15re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 9/3/03 at 1:47pm

the best I ever saw was Lily Tomlin in Appearing Nightly........

followed by

Robert Morse in TRU


"MAY YOUR LIFE BE AS BRIGHT AS BROADWAY AT NIGHT"

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robbiej
#16re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 9/3/03 at 1:57pm

I believe the David Hare piece is called 'Via Dolorosa'.

I adored FULL GALLOP.

But I truly believe the best one person show will be THE SANTALAND DIARIES coming this December in NYC, starring ME!!!!


"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

DoubleDown11
#17Only Solo Show
Posted: 9/3/03 at 1:58pm

I've seen one show with a single cast member: Fully Committed! I enjoyed it thoroughly.

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thebigkrakowski
#18re: Only Solo Show
Posted: 9/3/03 at 4:03pm

Also....

Spalding Gray in Swimming to Cambodia
Anna Deveare Smith in Fires in the Mirror
David Drake in The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me

Dollypop
#19re: re: Only Solo Show
Posted: 9/3/03 at 7:48pm

I have to agree with THE BELLE OF AMHURST. Julie Harris was splendid.

However, in the near future we'll be able to see AN EVENING WITH CAROL CHANNING.


"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

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PigletH13
#20re: re: re: Only Solo Show
Posted: 9/3/03 at 7:53pm

I agree about Patrick Stewart and Fully Committed. I can't wait to see I Am My Own Wife.


addition to the serenity prayer: Help me hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off!!! :-)

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PigletH13
#21re: re: re: Only Solo Show
Posted: 9/3/03 at 7:53pm

I agree about Patrick Stewart and Fully Committed. I can't wait to see I Am My Own Wife.


addition to the serenity prayer: Help me hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off!!! :-)

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PigletH13
#22re: re: re: Only Solo Show
Posted: 9/3/03 at 7:53pm

I agree about Patrick Stewart and Fully Committed. I can't wait to see I Am My Own Wife.


addition to the serenity prayer: Help me hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off!!! :-)

sharon1
#23re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Best Solo Shows
Posted: 9/3/03 at 8:01pm

I love Alone Together. Wish he would bring it over here

Unknown User
#24re: re: re: Only Solo Show
Posted: 9/3/03 at 9:59pm

SHIRLEY VALENTINE - Of course
BARRYMORE - Of course

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