Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.

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Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.

Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:36am

I have seen this question thrown out to the musicals, but not for plays. I am really interested in your opinions.

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re: 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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re: 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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re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.

Posted: 8/23/07 at 8:56am

90 percent of the male cast of Angels In America

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re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.

Posted: 8/23/07 at 9:10am

Sweeney Todd

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re: 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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re: 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.

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re: 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!

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re: 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.

#10

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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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#11

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:49am

Do you count Shakespeare? Then you have a whole lot - Othello, Lear, Hamlet (depending on how he's played), Romeo, etc.

#12

re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.

Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:50am

Glengarry Glen Ross

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#13

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:51am

I WANNA THROWWWWWWWWW!!!

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#14

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:57am

Talk Radio has a breakdown - Liev Schreiber actually had me worried that he was having a seizure.

#15

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:57am

I agree with WaltSummers- very emotional scene.

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#16

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 10:59am

I immediately thought of Frost/Nixon

#17

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:02am

"Howard Katz."

#18

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:02am

The opening of "Chapter Two"

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#19

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 11:04am

Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun

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#20

re: 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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#21

re: 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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#22

re: Biggest emotional breakdown for a male character in a play.

Posted: 8/23/07 at 12:00pm

Alan in "Equus"

#23

re: 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.

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:42pm

:O

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#25

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Posted: 8/23/07 at 1:42pm

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