Most Moving Experience in Theatre You Have Ever Had- Page 3

[Rypm25]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 7:14am

seeing falsettos.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:29am

The first time I saw Grey Gardens. Dayum.

[trinaaron]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 11:31am

The day my 8 year old daughter fell in love with theater. We saw the revival of Les Mis last year and she was absolutely mesmerized. (I thought she was bored during the first half, but during intermission the first thing she said was that she wanted to see it again).

[uncageg]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 11:54am

Paul's monoloug in "A Chorus Line". I was 16 and saw it with my best friend from school who didn't know I was gay. (I really didn't KNOW I was gay!) By the middle of it, I was silently choking back tears. I walked out of the theater thinking, I really needed to hear it from someone else. And I was so happy. But I didn't expect it to happen one afternoon in a theater on Broadway!

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:47pm

Grey Gardens (Particularly Will You, Around the World and Another Winter in a Summer Town)
History Boys-wonderful play
August: Osage County

[philcrosby]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 12:52pm

The London production of INTO THE WOODS. Sobbed from the witch's disappearance through the finale.

Act One Finales of LA CAGE and SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (original productions).

Fantasia Barrino as Celie in COLOR PURPLE. Possibly the one of THE greatest theatre performances I have ever seen.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 2:55pm

The original cast and run of Nicholas Nickleby. I have never laughed and cried so much during a show. It is still my favorite theatre experience.

On the musical side - the first time I saw FalsettoLand (When Act 2 of Falsettos was first performed by itself). I had just lost 3 very close friends to AIDS in the last 2 weeks. During the last 5 minutes of the show I started crying and I dont think I stopped for two days. Everything hit at once.

[Wildcard]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:22pm

"Contact"

My bf and I had broken up a week before I saw the show. He was verbally abusive, much like the husband in the show. He wanted to try and make things work so we ended up going out and watching "Contact". At the end of the second act, he was sobbing and he realized what he was like and how I had felt, wanting to be free.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:27pm

The first time I saw Les Miserables in 1988.

The first time I saw Falsettos in 1992.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:37pm

The end of Act 1 of the original "Sunday in the Park..."
I cried the whole time.

The final seconds of "W;t" and "Angels in America: Millenium Approaches"
both moments took my breath

Opening of "The Lion King"

[Roscoe]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:40pm

One of them would have to be the production of CYMBELINE that Bartlett Sher directed a few years back. The big final reconciliation scene, in which a really improbably number of plots are resolved, was one of the loveliest and most moving things I've ever seen. Boris McGiver's performance as Jacomo (however you spell it) has stayed with me ever since: I've never seen anyone play remorse so powerfully.

[Tom1071]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:47pm

Elaine Stritch: At Liberty. I found it to be incredibly moving and inspiring.

I was moved by the fact that I was hearing a first hand account of Broadway's Golden Age from someone who was actually there and saddened because I knew that nothing like that would ever come again.
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[practically_perfect]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 3:58pm

rent- was in tears 7 times in the first act alone, didnt stop crying through most of act 2.

wicked- defying gravity: simply amazing

beauty & the beast- a change in me: love that song

and, finally...
mary poppins flying. that was pure broadway magic

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:04pm

EDGES?!? Perhaps you mean William Finn's "Elegies", because if not, then... *snickers** no I meant Edges...

**snickers**

[The White Half-Mask]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:09pm

Seeing the 2006 Broadway revival of "Company" last year has definitely been my most moving theatre experience so far. Raul's performance, especially "Being Alive" was perfection. I will be forever grateful that I got to see this production before it closed.

[jerseyboyschick2]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:17pm

Lion King: I started crying during Endless Night, and I sobbed the rest of the show

Rent: I'll Cover You(Reprise) and Goodbye Love.

Jersey Boys: Dawn(Go Away). After that song I was just like WOW!

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[bundy5000]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 4:18pm

the most "MOVING" as in physical movement was Mamma Mia. I am sorry but i can not resist dancing and singing in the theatre. The recording does NO Justice whatsoever to the live Experience. Every song has a place in my heart and life. Except SOS cause the person singing it, his voice, reminded me of a enemy of mine. Turn down your lights and play "slipping through my fingers" and go back to your past and you cant resist dropping a tear or two. Seriously they should spunk it up a little bit cause the London Cast Recording is so dull and lacks the energy.

[kate2]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 7:19pm

I have to mention Aida as well. It was my first Broadway show and really got me hooked. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I loved everything about it.

[JKlock]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:17pm

the finale of the final performance of the Les Miserables revival

[morosco]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:27pm

Closing night on Broadway of SIDE SHOW. It was my one and only time seeing the show and the energy in the theatre was indescribable.

[broadwaycat3113]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:51pm

-The Closing Performance Of Tarzan
-Seeing Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal Perform In "Seasons Of Love" During Their Run This Past Summer
-"Memory" The First Time I Saw CATS. It Was My First Broadway Show, My Favorite Broadway Show, And The One That Got Me Hooked On Musical Theater.

[April Saul]

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

Over about 40 years of theatergoing (my parents started me in grade school):

*"Oliver" and "Hello, Dolly" in the 60s for that sheer oh-my-God this is what a Broadway musical is realization!
*Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards in "Moon for the Misbegotten" - awesome
*"Hair" on Broadway when I was still a kid - you knew amazing things were happening in America and it just reinforced all of that
*Elaine Stritch spitting out "Ladies who Lunch" in the original "Company" - wow
*Stephen Rea in "Playboy of the Western World" in Ireland on the one day I spent in that country in the mid-70s, what an intro to Irish theater
*Henry Fonda doing a one-man show, "Clarence Darrow" in London - just a legend
*Alan Bates and Frank Langella in "Fortune's Fool" with Liam Neeson a few seats away - All that talent, so close up!
*"Caroline or Change" at the Public - just chills and tears all the way through
*The joy of "Hairspray"
*"Pillowman" - amazing acting, had to see it twice
*"Spring Awakening" - unbelievable energy

No wonder I am a theater geek, damn!

[BlueWindSadness]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 9:19pm

this is a great thread....i have a few-

- "So dark, so dark...." Mortiz's line from Spring Awakening and the "Left Behind" scene right after....I lose it every time!

- the first time seeing "Totally F**ked" while sitting onstage @ Spring Awakening.

- "What you Own", and "One Song Glory" with Anthony and Adam in RENT in August

-"Someone Like You"- Jekyll and Hyde- seeing it in 8th grade, and it made me want to just jump up and sing on stage...so beautiful....

- The intro to Saturday Night Fever on Broadway in like 1999- made me realize THIS is what I wanted to do....


those are just a few of mine...have fun reliving these moments!

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 9:28pm

Probably the revival of Awake and Sing. It was at a time when I was considering quitting theatre. Saw it, and changed my mind.

[broadway86]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 9:29pm

Probably the revival of Awake and Sing. It was at a time when I was considering quitting theatre. Saw it, and changed my mind.

Closing night of Saturday Night Fever. The energy from the show and the audience was unbelievable.

The Pillowman. 'Nuff said.