Best performances you've seen- Page 5

[westcoastdrama]

Posted: 3/17/08 at 7:17pm

Patti Lupone - Evita
Marcia Gay Harden - Angels In America
Diana Rigg - Medea
Mary-Louise Parker - How I Learned To Drive
Faith Prince - Guys & Dolls
Anna Devere-Smith - Twilight: Los Angeles 1992
Cherry Jones - The Heiress
Elaine Stritch - A Delicate Balance
Jennifer Holliday - Dreamgirls
Zoe Caldwell - Master Class

Stephen Spinella - Angels In America
Nathan Lane - Guys & Dolls
Michael Cerveris - Tommy & Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Leguizamo - Mambo Mouth
Charles Busch - You Should Be So Lucky
Billy Crudup - Arcadia & Pillowman
David Morse - How I Learned To Drive
Mark Ruffalo - This Is Our Youth
Alan Cumming - Cabaret
Alan Rickman - Private Lives
Updated On: 3/17/08 at 07:17 PM

[fosca3]

Posted: 3/17/08 at 11:12pm

This is really fun, cuz it brings back tons of great memories

In no real order --

Liam Neeson in JUDAS KISS
Alan Cumming in CABARET
Ralph Fiennes in IVANOV (London)
Alan Rickman in PRIVATE LIVES
Robert Lindsay in RICHARD III (London)
Michael Ball in PASSION (London)
Philip Quast in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (London)
Jeff McCarthy in URINETOWN
Christopher Plummer in KING LEAR
David Morse in THE SEAFARER
Conleth Hill in THE SEAFARER
Victoria Hamilton in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (London)

Updated On: 3/17/08 at 11:12 PM

[fosca3]

Posted: 3/17/08 at 11:12pm

sorry -- that went in twice somehow...

Updated On: 3/17/08 at 11:12 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 12:00am

Haven't seen any truly great male performances, so I'm gonna limit this to the ladies.

5. Julia Murney- Wicked
4. Sutton Foster- Little Women
3. Christine Ebersole- Grey Gardens (not exactly live...hehe)
2. Alice Ripley- Next to Normal
1. Sarah Steele- Speech and Debate

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 1:02am

My FAVORITE* performances this season:
(*i.e. not necessarily "The Best", but "My Favorite")

Sarah Steele, Speech and Debate
Alice Ripley, Next to Normal
Brian D'Arcy James, Next to Normal
Marc Kudisch, The Witches of Eastwick (Signature)
Emily Skinner, The Witches of Eastwick
Lin- Manuel Miranda, In The Heights
Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Josh Grisetti, Enter Laughing
Marc Kudisch, The Glorious Ones
Hunter Foster, Frankenstein
Adam Heller, Make Me A Song
Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Sally Murphy, August: Osage County
Ian Barford, August: Osage County
Jim Norton, The Seafarer
Danny Burstein, South Pacific
Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific
Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
Hunter Foster, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Signature)
Will Chase, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Christopher J. Hanke, Cry- Baby
Michael Arden, Juno
Tobias Segal, From Up Here
Julie White, From Up Here
Aya Cash, From Up Here
Will Rogers, From Up Here
Michael Berresse, No No Nanette
John Gallagher Jr., Port Authority
Mark Rylance, Boeing- Boeing

[The Other One]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:48am

Play, Actress
1)Amanda Plummer, Agnes of God
2)Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
3)Colleen Dewhurst, A Moon For The Misbegotten
4)Maggie Smith, Lettice and Lovage
5)Kathleen Chalfant, W;t
6)Zoe Caldwell, Master Class
7)Vanessa Redgrave, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Cherry Jones, The Heiress
9)Mercedes Ruehl, Lost In Yonkers
10)Lindsay Duncan, Les Liasons Dangereus

Actor, Play
1)Alan Bates, Fortune's Fool
2)Roger Rees, Nicholas Nickelby
3)Jason Robards, A Moon For The Misbegotten
4)Delroy Lindo, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
5)Christopher Plummer, Othello
6)George C. Scott, Death of a Salesman
7)James Earl Jones, Fences
Alfred Molina, Art
9)Kevin Spacey, Lost In Yonkers
10)Ron Liebman, Angels In America

Actress, Musical
1)Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd
2)Tyne Daly, Gypsy
3)Chita Rivera, Chicago
4)Dorothy Collins, Follies
5)Victoria Clark, Light In The Piazza
6)Donna Murphy, Passion
7)Patti Lupone, Evita
Jennifer Holliday, Dreamgirls
9)Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens
10)Randy Graff, City of Angels

Actor, Musical
1)Nathan Lane, The Producers
2)William Daniels, 1776
3)Colm Wilkinson, Les Miserables
4)Phil Silvers, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
5)Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
6)James Naughton, City of Angels
7)Kevin Kline, The Pirates of Penzance
Mandy Patinkin, Evita
9)Michael Jeter, Grand Hotel
10)Gregory Hines, Jelly's Last Jam