Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever- Page 3
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#50
Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:03amMichael Jeter in Grand Hotel
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#51
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#52
Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:10am
or Sammy Davis JR. in GOLDEN BOY.
Updated On: 2/1/11 at 12:10 AM
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#53
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
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Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#54
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
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#55
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#56
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#57
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
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#58
Posted: 2/1/11 at 12:51pmI can't choose between Alice Ripley in Next to Normal and Phylicia Rashad in August:Osage County.
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#59
Posted: 2/1/11 at 1:31pm
Robert Petkoff - RAGTIME
Bernadette Peters - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#60
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
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#61
Posted: 2/1/11 at 6:10pmDaniel Evans in SUNDAY
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#62
Posted: 2/1/11 at 6:21pmI have to agree all the way with Alice Ripley in next to normal.
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#63
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/05
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#64
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
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#65
Posted: 2/1/11 at 9:24pmJoanna Gleason in INTO THE WOODS
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#66
Posted: 2/1/11 at 9:42pm
Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady
Donna McKechnie, A Chorus Line
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#67
Posted: 2/1/11 at 11:28pmAmy Morton in August: Osage County
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#68
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
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#69
Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:54amRichard Kiley, Man of La Mancha!
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#70
Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:56amMarin Mazzie in Next to Normal and Tony Vincent as Saint Jimmy. I also really enjoyed Judy Kaye as Mrs. Lovette
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#71
Posted: 2/2/11 at 12:59amYul 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.
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#72
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#73
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever#74
Posted: 2/2/11 at 11:41am
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