Finest acting performances on Broadway?- Page 2

[trentsketch]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 8:09am

Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife

I'm also really big on Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 8:14am

Two excellent choices, trent, and two that are very high on my list, as well.

I'm surprised it took someone this long to mention Tonya.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 9:36am

A lot of mine have already been mentioned- Ripley in next to normal, LuPone in Gypsy, Audra in Porgy and Bess, Amy Morton in August...but to that list I would add...

Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens (which I think is the greatest stage performance I've ever seen)
Joe Mantello in The Normal Heart
Brian Stokes Mitchell in the original Ragtime
Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman

I would also add one that might be unpopular...Nathan Lane in The Producers. To me, that remains the finest example of musical comedy acting that I've ever seen.

[PrinceCaspian]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 10:34am

Brian O'Byrne in Frozen was AMAZING

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 10:46am

Kelly Bishop in A Chorus Line

[The Other One]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 10:49am

Alan Bates in FORTUNE'S FOOL
Amanda Plummer in AGNES OF GOD

Angela Lansbury in SWEENEY TODD
Nathan Lane in THE PRODUCERS

[gcal]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 10:59am

Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change
Marin Mazzie in Next to Normal Updated On: 12/21/13 at 10:59 AM

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 11:34am

Tonya Pinkins, CAROLINE OR CHANGE
Joe Mantello (and all of his costars, really), THE NORMAL HEART
Christine Ebersole, GREY GARDENS


Those are the three that immediately popped into my head, though I'm sure there are many others.

[philly03]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 11:47am

LuPone in Gypsy
Marla Schaffel in Jane Eyre

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 11:48am

Play- Tracey Bennett in End of thenRainbow

Musical - toss up. Marin Mazzie in N2N
Lansbury in Gypsy

Updated On: 12/21/13 at 11:48 AM

[Jamie Pierce]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 2:22pm

Kristine Nielsen in Vanya and Sonia...

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 3:55pm

The image of Ebersole as Little Edie standing with her packed suitcase as Mary Louise Wilson's Big Edie was screaming her name is one of the most striking theatre memories. So yes, I'd definitely add Ebersole to the list, she was incredible.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 4:09pm

Natasha Richardson in Cabaret. I haven't seen an equal to that performance yet.

[NoName3]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 7:45pm

One performance that hasn't been mentioned that remains indelible in my memory is Maggie Smith in Private Lives. I can't begin to describe how masterful, brilliant and hysterically funny she was. And a lesson in comic timing.

[MarkBearSF]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 8:10pm

Musical Female - Patti LuPone in Gypsy
Musical Male - Raul Esparza in Company

Play Female - Elaine Stritch in A Delicate Balance
Play Male - Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon

[MillieDillmount]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 8:29pm

My most memorable would have to be Samantha Soul in one of Lucy Thurber's Hill Town Plays in Killers and Other Family! That's a performance I won't soon forget, she was so fearless and breathtaking in that role!!

Laurie Metcalf in The Other Place
Melissa van der Schyff in Bonnie and Clyde
The two Sirs in Waiting for Godot
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Jill Paice in Matilda and Lend Me A Tenor (Papermill Penthouse)

[WickedOne2]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 8:29pm

I have a few:
Raul Esparza in Company (having seen both him and DHP, he was robbed of that Tony) Norbert Leo Butz in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Patti LuPone in Gypsy
Idina Menzel in Wicked
Audra McDonald in Porgy & Bess
OBC of God of Carnage
Current revival cast of The Glass Menagerie
Bobby Cannavale in Motherf**ker with the Hat

[trentsketch]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 9:44pm

Celia Keenan-Bolger, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I saw that show many times while it was running. Every time Celia was on, she stole the show. I cried many times during The "I Love You" Song and always hoped that this would be the time when Olive came out on top.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 9:48pm

Constantine Maroulis (Jekyll & Hyde) - 2013 Revival

His voice.. His acting..

Just listen to the concept recording.. goosebumps.

[newsboy175]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 9:55pm

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[Okiekat]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 10:09pm

Audra McDonald in EVERYTHING
Brian Dennehy and Elizabeth Franz - Death of a Salesman
Tracy Letts - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Amy Morton - August: Osage County
Jim Dale - Candide
Alan Cumming - Cabaret
Kristine Nielsen - Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Viola Davis - Fences

[Adam Chris]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 10:46pm

I thought Angela Landbury's teenytiny role in The Best Man was an example of an actor spinning gold out of straw. She was so funny.

And that's without even mentioning her triumph in Sweeny Todd.

[NoName3]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 11:01pm

Estelle Parsons in Miss Margarida's Way.

Lily Tomlin in The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.

Off Broadway, Divine as the prison matron in Tom Eyen's Women Behind Bars.

[The Josh]

Posted: 12/21/13 at 11:24pm

James Corden in One Man, Two Guvnors
Joe Mantello in The Normal Heart
Tracy Letts in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Kristine Nielsen and David Hyde Pierce in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Danny Burstein in Follies

[Tom 2]

Posted: 12/23/13 at 11:46am

Anything with Sally Murphy...