Most Moving Experience in Theatre You Have Ever Had — Page 2

Grey Gardens. It's the only time I've really cried in a theatre.

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I think two stick out for me:
Spring Awakening will always have a place in my heart. I lost one of my best friends two years ago so "Left Behind" really gets to me every time.
Same with Next to Normal. It just really struck a cord and had me getting emotional even as I walked to the train station.

Somehow, I remember seeing "of Mice and Men" in college with a group (1974?) and the entire place was SOBBING!! James Earl Jones and Kevin Conway.

Even though this wasn't live, I have to include Vicki Clark's Fable in the PBS broadcast of Piazza.

I was at Kelli O'Hara's last matinee of Light in the Piazza. The emotion in her voice at the end when Clara tells Marget "I can't leave you" made me lose it.

I just got back home from Forbidden Broadway-Rude Awakening, and well, I was just moved to tears from laughter. Many of the above mentioned shows, which I loved as well-especially Spring Awakening and the Company revival-were brilliantly, and rudely parodied.

The Deaf West revival of "Big River." The moment during "Waitin For The Light (Reprise)" when everything goes mute and you still understand what the cast is signing... it's haunting.

Four really stick out for me.

The first time I saw RENT, this was the show for me that got me into musical theater, I was an emotional wreck. I was 15 and had not yet come out of the closet. The show literally changed my life (I know this is so cliché but for me its true) The show really opened my eyes to who I really was and that it was ok to be gay.

A Chorus Line, I had never really had too much interest in this show, but my best friend really wanted to see it so I went. The scene between Paul (then played by Jason Tam)and Zach. I did not even know it was coming and it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was literally crying so hard I was having trouble breathing. I have never in my life been as moved by a single performer as I was by Jason Tam at that performance.

Les Mis that show moves me, and I cant help it but I cry every time Gavroche dies.

Bare:a pop opera, I saw this show and it brought back a flood of memories from high school, you know first boyfriend... things like that. Even just listening to the song Bare can still make me cry. To be honest I think that the CD may be the only one that makes me cry....

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Hearing my first classic Broadway belt from Debbie Gravitte on the line "Why Can't This Damn Do-gooder" from "Little Old New York" in the Encores! production of Tenderloin. The CD does not do it justice.

Valarie Pettiford's amazing triple threat performance throughout Fosse.

Donna Murphy's "Shall I Tell You What I Think of You" during her last performance in The King and I.

Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin in the final scene of Who's Afraid...

The marathon performance(s?) of The Coast of Utopia

And... After years of wondering who the hell I saw in the London revival of Oliver! I finally found my program and it turns out I saw the replacement Sonia Swaby (Gigi on the studio recording of Miss Saigon) and her "As Long As He Needs Me" is to this day one of the most emotional/intense renditions of a song I've ever heard!

I was only about 12 when my parents took me to see a local theatre production of EQUUS. It was intense (not to mention that the cast was naked). My fascination with it lasted for like a year and a half. I bought little statues of horses, all kinds of weird crap. I still think it's a great play (I've seen it a couple of times since - and the movie a few times), but at 12 I had a bit of a difficulty putting it all into perspective. My parents were a great help, even though I overheard them more than once express "I wish we hadn't".

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The last 10 minutes of Journey's End made me shudder and I found the curtain call incredibly moving to the point of tears.

The first time I ever saw All My Sons. I didn;t know the story at all, and when it all unfolded I lost it a was crying like a baby when I left the theatre.

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