Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
#1Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:36amI have seen this question thrown out to the musicals, but not for plays. I am really interested in your opinions.
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
#2re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:39am
The priest in Doubt.
Archie in Unexpected Tenderness.
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jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#2re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:53am
Of the plays I've seen
Both Oliver and Philip have some great moments in The Vertical Hour.
And Nixon in Frost/Nixon. The late night phone call...amazing.
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#3re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:56am90 percent of the male cast of Angels In America
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#4re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:10amSweeney Todd
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#5re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:10am^ Isn't that a musical?
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#6re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:27am
Right. I thought when broadwayboy said play, he meant show.
Sorry about the confusion.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#7re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:30am
"90 percent of the male cast of Angels In America"
Agree 100%! HA!
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
#8re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:34am
The grocery bag scene in Normal Heart.
Nothing else comes close.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:40am
The Father in "All My Sons"
I mean, damn, he shoots himself in the end.
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Phantour
Stand-by Joined: 6/5/03
#11re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:49amDo you count Shakespeare? Then you have a whole lot - Othello, Lear, Hamlet (depending on how he's played), Romeo, etc.
#12re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:50amGlengarry Glen Ross
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#13re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:51amI WANNA THROWWWWWWWWW!!!
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keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#14re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:57amTalk Radio has a breakdown - Liev Schreiber actually had me worried that he was having a seizure.
#15re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:57amI agree with WaltSummers- very emotional scene.
I hold a degree in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. It is useless. Now I'm funny for money. Oh, and I sing.
MarkRascati
Broadway Star Joined: 5/24/06
#16re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:59amI immediately thought of Frost/Nixon
#17re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:02am"Howard Katz."
#18re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:02amThe opening of "Chapter Two"
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
WOSQ
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#19re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:04amWalter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#20re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:04am"Things Get Broken" from Bernstein's Mass labeled (A Theater Piece...)
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lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#21re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:34am
James Tyrone, Jr. in "A Moon for the Misbegotten." Kevin Spacey had me sobbing along with him. OMG.
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Drewprecht
Understudy Joined: 10/6/05
#22re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 12:00pmAlan in "Equus"
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#23re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:40pm
The final confrontation betweeen Willy and Biff in DEATH OF A SALESMAN.
"I am not a dime-a-dozen......."
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#24re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:42pm
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-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
Fenchurch
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/16/06
#25re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:42pm
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