Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

#1

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

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"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!"

#2

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Kelli O'Hara in South Pacific

#3

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Geoffrey Rush in Exit the King.

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#4

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Billy Crudup as Vissarion Belinsky in Coast of Utopia

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"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

#5

Favorite 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

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"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."

#6

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change

#7

Favorite 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

#8

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Christiane Noll in Ragtime

#9

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Alan Cumming- Cabaret

#10

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Ian McKellen, AMADEUS

#11

Favorite 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

#12

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Tovah Feldshuh in Irena's Vow

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#13

Favorite 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.

#14

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music.

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You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? -BP.

#15

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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.

#16

Favorite 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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#17

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Bernadette Peters in ALNM
Alice Ripley in Next to Normal

#18

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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

Vanessa Redgrave in Long Day's Journey Into Night

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"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

#19

Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever

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.

#20

Favorite 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

#21

Favorite 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

#22

Favorite 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

#23

Favorite 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

#24

Favorite 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?

#25

Favorite 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!!!

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