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.
#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
#4re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:10amSweeney Todd
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.
#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!
#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.
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
#13re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.
Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:51amI WANNA THROWWWWWWWWW!!!
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.
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"
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#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
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...)
"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
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......."
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
:O
ES MARGO!!
-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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"Fenchurch is correct, as usual." - muscle23ftl
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