Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
#1Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:32pm
"Look I made a hat... where there never was a hat."
"Think of how I adore you, think of how much you love me. If I were perfect for you, wouldn't you tire of me?"
"Somebody, crowd me with love. Somebody, force me to care. Somebody, make me come through, I'll always be there, as frightened as you, to help us survive. Being alive. Being alive. Being alive!"
"There are worse things than staring at the water as you're posing for a picture after sleeping on the ferry after getting up at seven to come over to an island in the middle of a river half an hour from the city on a Sunday!"
#2Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:35pmKelli O'Hara in South Pacific
#2Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:39pmGeoffrey Rush in Exit the King.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#3Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:46pmBilly Crudup as Vissarion Belinsky in Coast of Utopia
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#4Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 2:50pm
Marin Mazzie in Next to Normal
Marni Raab in Phantom of the Opera
gcal
Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#5Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:13pmTonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change
#6Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#7Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:17pmChristiane Noll in Ragtime
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#10Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:22pm
Male: Alan Bates, Fortune's Fool
Female: Amanda Plummer, Agnes of God
#11Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:25pmTovah Feldshuh in Irena's Vow
"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
#12Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
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.
#13Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:44pmBernadette Peters in A Little Night Music.
You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? -BP.
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#14Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 3:46pmThere 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.
#15Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
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
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wickedfan11
Broadway Star Joined: 6/17/06
#16Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:11pm
Bernadette Peters in ALNM
Alice Ripley in Next to Normal
#17Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:25pmVanessa Redgrave in Long Day's Journey Into Night
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#18Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:29pmI 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
Swing Joined: 6/9/04
#19Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
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
Swing Joined: 8/13/10
#20Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
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
#21Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:45pm
Bernadette Peters Gypsy and A Little Night Music
Maureen Moore in Grey Gardens
#21Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:45pm
Bernadette Peters Gypsy and A Little Night Music
Maureen Moore in Grey Gardens
#21Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Posted: 1/31/11 at 4:56pm
Douglas Hodge in La Cage Aux Folles
Mark Rylance in La Bete
Does Pee-Wee Herman count?
#22Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
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!!!
<-- Tevye, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, March 2018
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