Favorite Ian McKellen Broadway Performance

[Andrew Burke]

Posted: 10/5/17 at 9:23pm

Out of McKellen's 8 Broadway performances, which one is your favorite? I'd have to go with his Estragon personally

[JBroadway]

Posted: 10/5/17 at 9:52pm

Wish I had been lucky enough to see them all, or even more than one! Alas, the only one I saw was No Man's Land. Didn't even get to catch Godot. Dance of Death happened when I was a child, and the rest were before I was born.

I'd be curious to hear the thoughts of someone who was able to see all or most of these. I imagine Wild Honey and Amadeus were the biggest standouts. 

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/5/17 at 10:05pm

Salieri in AMADEUS and his one-man show about Shakespeare. I believe it was called ACTING SHAKESPEARE.

[dres40]

Posted: 10/5/17 at 10:15pm

Acting Shakespeare and Richard III at BAM.

Both wonderful.

I have the poster from Acting Shakespeare framed and we got to meet him after the show.  He was so kind to us two HS kids.

 

[verilyi2]

Posted: 10/6/17 at 6:12pm

I was only able to view one Salieri monologue from his Amadeus. It was at the V&A show in London, and I was spellbound. I'd give a lot to see the whole thing, but I'm not sure there is any recording other than the archival one.

[tomwsjr]

Posted: 10/7/17 at 11:03am

He was mesmerizing in Amadeus, Richard III and Waiting for Godot.  However, he grossly over acted in Dance of Death.  I felt so bad for Hellen Mirren, he showed no respect for her on stage.   He gave a selfishly hammed up performance here. 

[Owen22]

Posted: 10/8/17 at 7:59pm

I went to see Dance of Death for Helen Mirren. I left an Ian McKellen fan.

[SomethingPeculiar]

Posted: 10/8/17 at 8:39pm

Has it ever been said why he didn't do the film version of Amadeus? I know he didn't really become a "star" until the mid/late 1990s, but he was still a bigger name at the time than F.M. Abraham, right?

 

(I should add –– I love Abraham's performance in the film version and never saw McKellen do it onstage.)

Updated On: 10/8/17 at 08:39 PM