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

[East Village]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 10:38pm

Alice Ripley in N2N

JGJr's last week in SA - saw his final Sunday performance. Mayer and Hulce were there and the cast and audience were on fire

Les Miz on acid - hey I was in college!

Hair last summer in Central Park

Black Watch - at St. Ann's Warehouse, especially the final dance


Updated On: 3/10/08 at 10:38 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 10:39pm

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

[Jane2]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 10:42pm

Raul Esparza singing Petrified in Taboo.

Christine Ebersole at the end of Grey Gardens.

[aliciag]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 10:46pm

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.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 10:55pm

How could I forget Bernadette in Gypsy? That didn't make me cry like Piazza did, but I will never forget watching her do Rose's Turn from the front row.

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 10:56pm

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.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:01pm

I was onstage at Spring Awakening for Gallagher's last matinee. The Left Behind at that performance was the only time I ever cried at a show.

Also, Next to Normal shook me up a lot.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:04pm

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

[amoni]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:12pm

Gee Ed_Mottershead, thanks, for a minute there I thought no one on this board had ever seen a Broadway show before 3 years ago.

[christhefish]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:34pm

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.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:36pm

amoni ~ I have seen shows earlier, but the question was Most Moving Experience, and while thrilling, those shows didn't make the cut.

[Hank]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:02am

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.

[craig238]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:08am

After leaving XANADU and getting to my car when I found out someone smashed in my back window, went into the trunk, and stole a days worth of shopping my wife and daughter did at Jersey Gardens the day before - we still all cry when we think of XANADU (though we did like the show) !!

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:08am

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.

[kate2]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:11am

I sob like a baby during most of the 2nd act of Les Mis

[Baiseur82]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:38am

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....

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:02am

A few standouts come to mind:

NINE (2003)
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
INTO THE WOODS
SWEENEY TODD
TABOO

others I'm completely forgetting.

[jewishboy]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:20am

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!

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:26am

Go ahead and laugh...

Avenue Q.

I just felt that everything bad was falling on me and why does my life suck. And this show just sucked me in with laughter upon laugher (which is something I truly needed).

The first time I went, my mom said that I was a truly different person sitting in that theatre. I believe I went into another state/frame of mind. It's like my life. On stage. In an amusing manner.

The 9 times I've seen it since, I come out feeling the same way. Laughing so hard, but wanting to cry.

[Chason]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 1:45am

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".

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:46am

"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from Evita
"Memory" from Cats
"14 Dwight Ave., Natick Massachusetts" from Elegies
The final scene in Grey Gardens
Bash- the entire show
Death of A Salesman after Biff steals the pen and his final confrontation with Willy

[Bwayfan4]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:16am

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

[AudrasBoi]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 5:22am

the moment that moved me the most happened while sitting in the front row of the Ford Center(now toronto ceter for the arts) in Toronto during Ragtime's premier. My brother and I went together and sat front row center. Just being that close for ANY of that show was a thrilling experience. I got through Audra's Your Daddy's Son without crying because I was completly mezmorized by her performance. But, the moment that came outta left field and brought me and brother to tears happened during...New Music. When Stokes sang "Sarah my life has changed, Sarah you got to see,Sarah we got a son, Sarah come down to MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE", and she sings back slowly walking down the stairs with little coalhouse in her arms crying her eyes out meets him at center stage and sings "Calling my heart to You!!!!!!!!" and hands him their child as the music builds and the entire cast powerdrives you with the chorus of the song made us both cry like little babies. Most thrilling second moment....also in ragtime. Wheels of a dream, the crash of the orchestra that follows "BEYOND THAT ROAD!" still to this day gives me chills.

[Fat Actor]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 5:38am

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.

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 6:19am

I forgot about All My Sons....loved that too. Classic Miller.