Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

[SondheimFan23]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:32pm

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:35pm

Kelli O'Hara in South Pacific

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:39pm

Geoffrey Rush in Exit the King.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:46pm

Billy Crudup as Vissarion Belinsky in Coast of Utopia

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:50pm

Marin Mazzie in Next to Normal
Marni Raab in Phantom of the Opera

[gcal]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:13pm

Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:16pm

Top 3 (no order):
Geoffrey Rush in Exit the King
Jefferson Mays in I am my Own Wife
Raul Esparza in Company

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:17pm

Christiane Noll in Ragtime

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:18pm

Alan Cumming- Cabaret

[Q]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:20pm

Ian McKellen, AMADEUS

[The Other One]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:22pm

Male: Alan Bates, Fortune's Fool
Female: Amanda Plummer, Agnes of God

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:25pm

Tovah Feldshuh in Irena's Vow

[Joey.]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:35pm

Laura Benanti in GYPSY.

Sure, Patti was phenomenal, but Laura brought the role of Louise to heights that I didn't think possible.

[BellatrixxLestrangee]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:44pm

Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music.

[willep]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:46pm

There are so many great ones that I wish I had been around to see. Of the ones I have seen, I will have to go with Mark Rylance in La Bete.

[quizking101]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:49pm

MALE:
Paulo Szot in SOUTH PACIFIC

FEMALE:
Laura Benanti in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:11pm

Bernadette Peters in ALNM
Alice Ripley in Next to Normal

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:25pm

Vanessa Redgrave in Long Day's Journey Into Night

[newintown]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:29pm

I really loved Pauline Collins in Shirley Valentine. Don't know if it's my eternal favorite, but it's the first one that comes to mind right away, right now.

[sara]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:42pm

Hugh Jackman,The Boy From Oz
Paulo Szot in South Pacific and The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera

[masterofthehouse]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:45pm

I haven't seen many shows on Broadway, three to be exact, but several on national tours.

Emily Skinner in Chicago's Billy Elliot
Blake Bashoff in Broadway's Spring Awakening

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:45pm

Bernadette Peters Gypsy and A Little Night Music
Maureen Moore in Grey Gardens

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:45pm

Bernadette Peters Gypsy and A Little Night Music
Maureen Moore in Grey Gardens

[The Josh]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:56pm

Douglas Hodge in La Cage Aux Folles
Mark Rylance in La Bete

Does Pee-Wee Herman count?

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 1/31/11 at 5:08pm

A three-way tie (in no particular order):
-Patti LuPone in GYPSY
-Douglas Hodge in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
-Raul Esparza in COMPANY

All three reduced me to a hysterical, sobbing MESS!!!