Favorite OffBway show? — Page 2

I Adore Jon and Jen...the music is flawless, and carolee gives me chills each time i hear it. It is unlike anything i have ever seen. Also, i loved the Mistress Cycle-so different.

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See What I Wanna See & Tick Tick Boom

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Currently running ~ ALTAR BOYZ

Past ~ Tied between EATING RAUL and AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN

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MY FAVORITE OFF BROADWAY SHOW IS CURRENTLY SLUT BUT AS IT CLOSES ON NOV 13 THEN I WILL HAVE TO SAY MY PRIOR FAVORITE WAS ALTAR BOYZ. ALSO FORBIDDEN BRODWAY SVU AND THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PART MUSICAL ARE REALLY GOOD ALSO.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Thing About Men. That's an awesome show!!!

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Frankly, in the last 25+ years I've seen more good and great theatre Off-Broadway than On-, especially if one takes into account the dozens of shows that began Off-Broadway and then later transferred (or were revived On), including A Chorus Line, Sunday in the Park with George, Ain't Misbehavin', Hair, Urinetown, Elaine Stritch, Bring in Da Noise, Rent, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Caroline, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Once on This Island, as well as the vast majority of Tony and Pulitzer nominated and winning non-musical plays of the past three decades. The best of Off-Broadway is the best of the Theatre -- Period -- for the most part, for the last half century (the 1955 production of Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya, Bea Arthur et al, at the Theatre de Lys, now Lucille Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street, was the first and last Off-Broadway show to be nominated for and win Tonys without ever moving to a Broadway house and is considered by most experts to be the true beginning of "Off-Broadway").

As for my own personal favorites, there are almost too many to mention. I'll narrow it down to only productions I've actually seen:

NOW -- Orson's Shadow, Third, A Soldier's Play, Great American Trailer Park Musical

PAST --

Plays by Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatre, The Negro Ensemble Company, The Wooster Group, The Public and the other major not-for profits, Sam Shepard (only two plays of his have ever been on Broadway and in each case it was YEARS after their successful Off-Broadway runs), Caryl Churchill (esp. Far Away, Cloud Nine, Top Girls and A Number), Paul Rudnick, Nicky Silver, Larry Shue, Wallace Shawn, Craig Lucas, Anna Deveare Smith, Eric Bogosian, Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Adam Rapp, David Lindsay-Abaire, Christopher Shinn, Kenneth Lonergan (esp. This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery), Paula Vogel (esp. How I Learned to Drive), Rebecca Gillman (esp. Spinning into Butter), and many many plays by Mamet, Beckett, Fugard, Genet, Lanford Wilson, Durang et al that were not deemed commercial enough to run on Broadway.

Others:

-- Wit (by Margret Edson; Pulitzer)
-- Three Tall Women (Albee; Pulitzer - Albee wrote MANY plays that never ran on Broadway)
-- A Soldier's Play (Fuller; Pulitzer)
-- Driving Miss Daisy (Uhry; Pulitzer)
-- Dinner With Friends (Margulies; Pulitzer)
-- Jitney (August Wilson)
-- The Laramie Project (Moises Kaufman and Tectonic)
-- Gross Indecency (Moises Kaufman and Tectonic)
-- The Colored Museum (George C. Wolfe)
-- Slavs! (Tony Kushner)
-- Homebody/Kabul (Tony Kushner)
-- Vita & Virginia (Eileen Atkins and Vanessa Redgrave)
-- The Lisbon Traviata (and another half dozen plays by Terrence McNally)
-- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell and Trask)
-- Violet (Jeanine Tesori)
-- The Kathy & Mo Show (Najimy & Gaffney)
-- The Wild Party (Andrew Lippa)
-- The Normal Heart (Larry Kramer)
-- The Destiny of Me (Larry Kramer)
-- Collected Stories (Margulies; with Uta Hagen)
-- Well (Lisa Kron)
-- Venus (Suzan-Lori Parks)
-- F*CKing A (Suzan-Lori Parks)
-- Floyd Collins (Adam Guettel)
-- The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Kristen Childs)
-- Marvin's Room (Scott McPherson)
-- Talking Heads (Alan Bennett)
-- The Book of Liz (Amy & David Sedaris with Jackie Hoffman et al)
-- Full Gallop (Mary Louise-Wilson)
-- First Lady Suite (LaChiusa)
-- One Flea Spare (Naomi Wallace)
-- Bug (Tracy Letts)

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Updated On: 10/31/05 at 09:48 PM

Great to see you again Margo. Where have you been?

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When Margo returns, she returns with a FIERCE post.

Hedwig & The Angry Inch

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