Favorite performance from any broadway musical

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 7/14/11 at 2:20pm

mine: Joanna Gleason's in Into the Woods

[once a month]

Posted: 7/15/11 at 9:52am

After 337 productions, there's no way one performance stood out musically for me. I guess my favorite performance in a show would have to be Roger Rees in The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby.

Musicals, hmmm...possibly Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music or Angela Landsbury in Sweeney Todd or Bebe Newirth in Chicago or Raul Esparza in Comapny or Patti Lupone in Gypsy or Harvey Fierstein in Hairspray or Alice Ripley in Next to Nothing or Sutton Foster in Anything Goes or Anne Reinking in Dancin or Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens.
Updated On: 7/15/11 at 09:52 AM

[sally1112]

Posted: 7/15/11 at 9:54am

Wow- I agree that I have been fortunate enough to have seen a lot of great performances so I will cheat and pick two- Patti Lupone in Sweeney Todd and Alice Ripely in N2N.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/15/11 at 12:58pm

Raul, Company, done.

It is my foremost goal in life to shock the members of BroadwayWorld.

[Hank]

Posted: 7/15/11 at 4:55pm

Please allow me to do a m/f split.

f: Sutton as Millie
m: I second Raul as Bobby

ok, if I have to go by the rules and pick just one, I'd have to say Sutton!

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 12:44am

Marin Mazzie in Next to Normal.

[frazer]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 8:01am

Brian D'arcy James - Next to Normal. I think if he'd stayed with them instead of moving to Shrek, he would have walked the tony.

[yeah]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 10:37am

Tonya Pinkins in "Caroline, or Change." "Lot's Wife" is not a musical number, it's not an 11 o'clock number, it's a friggin' exorcism!

Patti LuPone in "Gypsy" was sensational, even though I'm not a huge LuPone fan.

Joely Fisher in "Cabaret" blew me away.

Though "Wicked" is a mediocre show, at best, the end of Act 1, the lights, the staging, the music (when sung properly) is pretty wonderful.

The opening number to "A Chorus Line"!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 12:37pm

Maria Conchita Alonso in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Laura Bell Bundy in WICKED
Felicity Hoffman in SPEED THE PLOW
Jeffery Tambor in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 1:01pm

Tonya Pinkins in CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
Bernadette Peters in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Patti LuPone in GYPSY
Donna Murphy in FOLLIES
Victoria Clark in JUNO

[kikki327]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 1:20pm

this is a tough call....I've been lucky to see many incredible performances but I have to go with Chad Kimball in Memphis. Brilliant.

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 2:28pm

Christopher Fitzgerald - Finian's Rainbow
Jere Shea and Donna Murphy - Passion
Lea Salonga - Miss Saigon, Les Miserables
Will Chase - Miss Saigon, Rent, The Story of My Life
Joan Almedilla - Miss Saigon, Les Miserables
Megan Hilty - Wicked
Rachel York - Victor/Victoria
Ali Ewoldt - Les Miserables
Alan Cumming - Cabaret
Telly Leung - Allegiance (workshop)
Jonathan Groff & John Gallagher, Jr. - Spring Awakening

Updated On: 7/16/11 at 02:28 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 2:36pm

Rachel York - Victor/Victoria

You mean: Rachel York as Lesley Ann Warren as Norma Cassady.

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 2:40pm

BrodyFosse123, I was naming the musical, not the role in my list. :) Yes, Rachel York should have received the Tony for her role of Norma from the production.

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 4:09pm

Although I didn't see it live, I think Donna Murphy as Fosca in Passion is one of the most beautiful performances I've ever seen.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 4:15pm

Mine are all women. I can't really think of a male performance that moved anywhere near as much as the ones I've listed below.

Victoria Clark - Piazza
Christine Ebersole - Grey Gardens
The 'Pone - Gypsy
Donna Murphy - Passion
Audra Mcdonald - Ragtime and 110 In The Shade
Tonya Pinkins - Caroline and Change

And a special mention to Jennifer Holiday (Dreamgirls) and Angela Lansbury (Sweeney Todd) who I've only seen on video.

[GregHarris111]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 4:46pm

Carol Channing - Hello, Dolly
Pearl Bailey - Hello, Dolly
Patti LuPone - Gypsy
Eva LaGallienne - The Royal Family
Liza Minnelli - The Act
Peter Firth - Equus

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 5:08pm

The Royal Family (w/ Eva) and Equus were musicals?

[aliceidinabernadette]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 5:29pm

From what I've seen live, Alice Ripley in Next to Normal takes the cake, with Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music coming in a close second.

Now, if I had been fortunate enough to see Raul Esparza in Company live, I'm sure that he would be my number one, because from my many viewings of the dvd, he's already up there.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 5:38pm

Ebersole in Grey Gardens. Hands down the most complete, moving performance I have ever seen on stage.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 8:16pm

Donna McKechnie. Chorus Line. There is no other.

[charlesjguiteau]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 10:51pm

Long list of great women:
Glynnis Johns in A Little Night Music
Angela Lansbury in Gypsy and Sweeney Todd
Priscilla Lopez in A Chorus Line
Pearl Bailey in Hello Dolly
Madeline Kahn in On the Twentieth Century
Nell Carter in Ain't Misbehavin'
Faith Prince in Guys and Dolls
Audra McDonald in Carousel, Ragtime and Marie Christine
Natasha Richardson in Cabaret
Donna Murphy in Wonderful Town

Short list of men:
Mandy Patinkin in Sunday in the Park
Michael Jeeter in Grand Hotel
Antonio Banderas in Nine
Nathan Lane in Guys and Dolls and Forum

[BeingAlive2]

Posted: 7/16/11 at 11:04pm

I would have to say one of my favorite performances was Ashley Brown as Mary Poppins.

On a side note, I saw the N2N tour and I thought Emma Hunton's performance not only out shined Alice, but was probably the best performance I have seen in person.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 7/17/11 at 1:51pm

Nathan Lane in THE PRODUCERS and THE ADDAMS FAMILY.

Patti LuPone in GYPSY.

Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone in EVITA.

Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth in WICKED.

Daniel Radcliffe in HOW TO SUCCEED...

Bernadette Peters and Joanna Gleason in INTO THE WOODS.

Bernadette Peters in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Raul Esparza in COMPANY.

Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee in MARY POPPINS.

[rougeduck]

Posted: 7/17/11 at 2:11pm

Alice Ripley in Next To Normal, Patti Lupone in Gypsy, Sutton Foster in Anything Goes. I totes thought these before they won the Tony which obviously just makes me the best audience member ever.