Favorite performance from any broadway musical

[henrikegerman]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#1

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

mine: Joanna Gleason's in Into the Woods

[once a month]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#2

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#2

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#3

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

Raul, Company, done.

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

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[Hank]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#4

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#5

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

Marin Mazzie in Next to Normal.

"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."

[frazer]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#6

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#7

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#8

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#9

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

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[kikki327]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#10

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#11

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

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

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

[BrodyFosse123]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#12

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

Rachel York - Victor/Victoria

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

[musicaltheater1]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#13

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.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

[littlegreen2]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#14

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.

"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."

[tazber]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#15

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.

....but the world goes 'round

[GregHarris111]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#16

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#17

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

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

[aliceidinabernadette]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#18

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.

Give me a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and I'll conquer the world!

[bjh2114]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#19

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#20

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

Donna McKechnie. Chorus Line. There is no other.

http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer

[charlesjguiteau]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#21

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#22

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]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#23

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.

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[rougeduck]

Favorite performance from any broadway musical#24

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.