Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever- Page 3

[morosco]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:03am

Michael Jeter in Grand Hotel

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:09am

morosco, you read my mind.
Something about Jeter in that show was magical and infectious.
Also, I wish you youngins could have seen Tommy Steele in HALF A SIXPENCE.

Updated On: 2/1/11 at 12:09 AM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:10am

or Sammy Davis JR. in GOLDEN BOY.
Updated On: 2/1/11 at 12:10 AM

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:26am

male - Quentin Earl Darrington in Ragtime
- J. Robert Spencer in Next to Normal

Female - Laura Benanti in Gypsy or
- Christiane Noll in Ragtime

[catstagestud]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 8:59am

My mind has been spinning reading everyone's responses and remembering just how great some of those performances were, but I'm gonna go with the first two that I thought of.

Male: Raul Esparza, Company
Female: LaChanze, The Color Purple

[buddy 11432]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 9:17am

Mary Martin in "The Sound of Music"

Ralph Richardson in Ibsen's "The Wild Duck"

Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl" & "I Can get it for You Wholesale"

Ethel Merman in "Gypsy"

Jackie Gleason in "Take Me Along"


Updated On: 2/1/11 at 09:17 AM

[wonkit]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 10:22am

Play: Boyd Gaines in JOURNEY'S END. Amy Morton in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.

Musical: Raul Esparza in COMPANY. Patti Lupone in EVITA.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 10:38am

Number one, now and forever: Hugh Jackman in THE BOY FROM OZ.

Runners up: William Daniels in the original production of 1776; John McMartin in the original production of FOLLIES.

Honorable mention: Norman Wisdom in WALKING HAPPY

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:51pm

I can't choose between Alice Ripley in Next to Normal and Phylicia Rashad in August:Osage County.

[sowren1020]

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

Robert Petkoff - RAGTIME
Bernadette Peters - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

[Shakeshafte]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 4:16pm

Favorites:

RAGTIME: Robert Petkoff

THE HEIRESS: Cherry Jones

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE: Sutton Foster

I AM MY OWN WIFE: Jefferson Mays

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 6:10pm

Daniel Evans in SUNDAY

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 6:21pm

I have to agree all the way with Alice Ripley in next to normal.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 6:42pm

Overall favorite: Patti LuPone in Gypsy

Male in musical: Steve Kazee in 110 in the Shade
Female in musical: Patti LuPone in Gypsy (though Audra in 110 in the shade is a VERY, VERY, close second)
Male in play: Raul Esparza in Speed-the-Plow
Female in play: Amy Morton in August: Osage County

Performance that would have been my favorite, had I seen it: Robert Lindsay, in Me in My Girl

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 9:05pm

Lin-Manuel Miranda - In the Heights
Heather Headley - Aida
Audra McDonald - Ragtime
LaChanze - The Color Purple
Lilias White - The Life

[sondheimfan2]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 9:24pm

Joanna Gleason in INTO THE WOODS

[dented146]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 9:42pm

Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady
Donna McKechnie, A Chorus Line

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 11:28pm

Amy Morton in August: Osage County

[adamgreer]

Posted: 2/1/11 at 11:36pm

This is hard. But, here goes...

Musical Male- Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime
Musical Female- Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens

Play Male- Brian Dennehy, Death of a Salesman
Play Female- Amy Morton, August: Osage County

Honorable Mention-
Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Alice Ripley, next to normal
Phylicia Rashad, August: Osage County
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
Updated On: 2/1/11 at 11:36 PM

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:54am

Richard Kiley, Man of La Mancha!

[Annas_Priest]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:56am

Marin Mazzie in Next to Normal and Tony Vincent as Saint Jimmy. I also really enjoyed Judy Kaye as Mrs. Lovette

[sweetchocolatechip]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:59am

Yul Brynner in the King and I in 1985. Thanks to my parents, this was my first broadway show at 12 years old. Ive been a HUGE broadway fan ever since.

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 2:30am

Audra McDonald- 110 in the Shade
....and I'm serious, Laura Bell Bundy- Legally Blonde. The joy in her performance was truly infectious. (*I saw the show in SF and just after opening on Bway, when she still had her voice)

And I have to mention three casts whose acting ensemble created the biggest emotional responses i've had at the theatre:
-Next To Normal (OBC)
-August: Osage County (National Tour)
-Movin' Out (National Tour) - Seriously, was such a moving experience for me

[jo]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 6:03am

Best Ever : Hugh Jackman in THE BOY FROM OZ

Honorable Mentions :

*Michael Ball in ASPECTS OF LOVE
*Richard Kiley in the original MAN OF LA MANCHA

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/2/11 at 11:41am

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