Favorite Broadway Performance by an actor... ever — Page 4

I don't know if it's my favorite, but the female performance that affected me the most was Patti Lupone in Gypsy. My favorite is probably Sherie Rene Scott in Everyday Rapture.

My favorite male performance is Cheyenne Jackson in All Shook Up because he was just SO fun in that role. I am not saying it's the greatest male performance I have ever seen on stage--but definitely my favorite.

I realize that all the above are from recent years, but I really just started attending Broadway shows on a regular basis about 8 years ago. I wish I could write Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, or Pearl Bailey in Hello Dolly--but alas, I cannot.

Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz - best performance ever!

Second favorite: Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in
The Producers

I've been a Broadway groupie since I was 8 when my parents took me to the original HAIR (hats off to progressive parents who nurtured my love of theatre). Here are a few of my absolute faves:

Harvey Firestein - Torch Song Trilogy
Hugh Jackman - The Boy from Oz
Derek Jacobi - Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado (RSC did these in repertory in 1984, and alternated nights). He was phenomenal in both.
Ian McKellan - Amadeus
Maggie Smith - Lettice & Lovage
Amy Morton - August, Osage County

Douglas Sills in the Scarlett Pimpernel

Tough one. I can't pick a single favorite because I loved them all for very different reasons.

Patti LuPone - Master Class
Audra McDonald - Marie Christine
Jane Adams - An Inspector Calls
Marla Schaffel - Jane Eyre
Janet McTeer - A Doll's House
Nancy Opel - Urinetown

Douglas Sills - Scarlet Pimpernel
Brian Stokes Mitchell - Ragtime
Robert Morse - Tru
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Owen Teale - A Doll's House
James Naughton - City of Angels

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I cannot pick..either Marin Mazzie as Diana in next to normal or Alice Ripley as Diana in next to normal.