Favorite OffBway show?- Page 2

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 4:59pm

Dessa Rose...it was brilliant.

[GClef2]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 5:06pm

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.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 5:51pm

Favorite Off- Bway Shows: Last 5 Years, Bat Boy, Tick Tick Boom, Songs for a New World, Dessa Rose, Elegies: A Song Cycle, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, Bare, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Little By Little, Hello Again, Starting Here Starting Now, Zombie Prom, Zanna Don't, Closer Than Ever, Ruthless, The Wild Party... plus SO many shows that eventually transferred to Broadway like I adored Urinetown and Spelling Bee off- broadway and OTHERS!
Current favorite? See What I Wanna See

[greenifyed]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 5:57pm

See What I Wanna See & Tick Tick Boom

[Jon]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 7:44pm

I have to chime in with recognition for the mother of all Off-Broadway shows - THE FANTASTICKS. It ran for 42 years.
Updated On: 10/30/05 at 07:44 PM

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 3:13pm

Currently running ~ ALTAR BOYZ

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

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 3:34pm

Haven't seen anything in a while Off Bway, but in the past: Bat Boy and The Mineola Twins

[teresa2]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 4:56pm

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.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 6:26pm

I've seen lots of off-Broadway shows I've enjoyed, it's difficult choosing a favorite. I can't believe that no one has mentioned Hedwig yet! I guess that says something about the age of most people on this forum. Also enjoyed TTB, Batboy, BLBC, Fully Committed, Radiant Baby, Spinning into Butter, but I think my very favorite off-B play would have to be Summer '69.

Currently running: I enjoyed Trailer Park but I guess I'd have to go with A Soldier's Play as my current favorite.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 8:14pm

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

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 8:17pm

Are there any clips of SLUT? I wanna hear the music, but can't find it anywhere. Usually B'way.com has opening night videos, but not for Slut.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 9:48pm

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)

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

[wickedfan]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 9:57pm

Great list Margo (and great to see you again, I haven't seen you around in a LONG time).
If I HAVE to choose my favorite, I would have to divide among past and present.
My favorite past Off-Bway show: The Fantasticks
My favorite current Off-Bway show: The Musical of Musicals the Musical.

[DAME]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 3:57am

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

[nickatnight]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 10:10am

musicals--i was particularly fond of 'violet', 'floyd collins' and 'hank williams:lost highway'. by the way, this past weekend i saw an early preview of 'almost heaven' , the john denver revue at the promenade. six great singers up there!

[midtowngym]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 11:37am

When Margo returns, she returns with a FIERCE post.

Hedwig & The Angry Inch