Favorite Plays- Page 2
Favorite Plays
#25re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 8:35pmI agree with The Man Who Came to Dinner. Also loved Run For Your Wife and its sequel, Caught it the Net, although those involves more physical comedy. And you can never go wrong with The Importance of Being Ernest.
"I haven't got a pail."
"Find your grail, your GRAIL!"
"But it's not missing. It's right on the counter where it's supposed to- defying gravity, my giant cup's gone!"
"Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do you measure... measure a year?"
"How many times do I have to tell you, it's five hundred twenty-five thousand, five hundred and eighty-five point thirty-two minutes. You will never graduate if you keep basing your math on showtunes."
"You ruin Broadway for me."
"As well I should."
#26re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:31pm
Golda's Balcony: one of the best pieces of theatre ever written
Angels in America: fabulous!!!
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: an amazing show
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
#27re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:57pm
Angels In America
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Crucible
Stop Kiss
Collected Stories
Five Women Wearing The Same Dress
--Like an odd exotic creature on display inside a zoo, hearing children asking questions makes me ask some questions too...--
#28re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 9:58pm
Closer
A Streetcar Named Desire
Barefoot in the Park
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#29re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:01pm
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Three Days of Rain
Hitchcock Blonde
The Pillowman
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
#30re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:13pm
Be sure to put at least one August Wilson play on your list:
The Piano Lesson
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#31re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:17pm
this is our youth
proof
Seascape
Kimberly Akimbo
Fuddy Meers
And Baby Makes Seven
The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
#32re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/4/06 at 10:22pm
if you are looking for something recent, IE: this season...
THE HISTORY BOYS
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#33re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/5/06 at 3:51am
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Proof
Doubt
The Pillowman
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mary, Mary
Street Scene
The Night of the Iguana
Updated On: 4/5/06 at 03:51 AM
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#34re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/5/06 at 9:28am
I like mostly "classic" plays.
In random order:
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Crucible
Glass Menagerie
An Ideal Husband
The Country Wife
The Mousetrap
The Triumph of Love (non-musical)
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Wait Until Dark (more modern)
Updated On: 4/5/06 at 09:28 AM
tabbynyc
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/06
#36re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/5/06 at 1:59pm
Cloudstreet
An Inspector Calls
Pillowman
A Doll's House
The American Plan
Raised in Captivity
Love! Valor! Compassion!
Angels in America
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
A Streetcar Named Desire
Noises Off
Blue/Orange
The Pillowman
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lettice and Lovage
House of Blue Leaves
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
Art
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
All in the Timing
Brighton Beach Memoirs
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#37re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/5/06 at 2:04pm
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
M Butterfly
Indiscretians
Equus
Who Is Sylvia...The Goat
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#38re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/5/06 at 2:29pm
A trilogy of sorts, in this order:
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Birthday Party (Pinter)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard)
The last one is one of my all-time favorites (many of the others have already shown up on this thread), but it's better if you've already read (or seen) the first two.
#39re: Favorite Plays
Posted: 4/5/06 at 2:34pm
I am so glad someone else said Street Scene!
Dodsworth
Man who came ot Dinner
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
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