OUR best of 2013 lists- Page 2

[Mike Barrett]

Posted: 12/10/13 at 5:34pm

I haven't seen Fun Home yet so that will not be on my list. Here it is! These are in no order:
Pippin
Kinky Boots
Vanya and Sonia
Murder Ballad
Matilda
After Midnight
Glass Menagerie
Lucky Guy
A Christmas Story (Saw it in Boston)
Book of Mormon (Saw it in April for first time)

Most disappointing- Motown
Pleasantly surprised- Pippin

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 12/10/13 at 6:29pm

Broadway
1. Matilda
2. Jekyll & Hyde
3. Roger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella
4. Annie (saw it in 2013)
5. Kinky Boots
6. Pippin

National Tours
1. Evita
2. Memphis
3. Priscilla
4. War Horse
(I saw tons of other tours, but none of them deserve to be mentioned)

Local/Community
1. Side Show
2. Ragtime
3. Into the Woods
4. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

[japhun2]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 8:06am

I'm surprised no one has listed A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder!

Updated On: 12/11/13 at 08:06 AM

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 8:21am

I loved G’s GUIDE, but I’m not sure if it would be in my Top 10 for the year. It would definitely be in my Top 3 musicals, but I saw a lot more terrific plays than musicals this year.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 9:57am

The best things I saw in 2013 were:

Zachary Quinto's performance in THE GLASS MENAGERIE
The entire experience of NATASHA PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
TWELFTH NIGHT
OLD HATS at Signature with Bill Irwin and David Shiner

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 10:12am

My list looks something like this, though I can't help the nagging feeling that I'm forgetting a couple of things.

1. THE FLICK
2. NATASHA, PIERRE, AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
3. HAMLET
4. A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
5. OLD HATS
6. VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
7. RICHARD III
8. TWELFTH NIGHT
9. HANDS ON A HARDBODY
10. FUN HOME

[FutureDirector]

Posted: 12/12/13 at 10:57am

In no particular order:
1) Fun Home
2) Julie Tayamor's Midsummer Nights Dream
3) Here Lies Love
4) Murder Ballad
5) Pippin
6) Waiting for Godot
7) Twelfth Night
Matilda
9) Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
10) The Glass Menagerie

[broadwaydevil]

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

Here's my list, in order. The only show I haven't seen that I think could crack this list would be Fun Home.
1.) Pippin
2.) Vanya and Sonia et al.
3.) Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
4.) Twelfth Night
5.) Matilda
6.) The Assembled Parties - I know not well-liked but I LOVED it.
7.) The Glass Menagerie
8.) A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
9.) Kinky Boots
10.) Murder Ballad or The Trip to Bountiful - can't decide, loved them both for very different reasons

[Rainbowhigh23]

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

In no particular order

The Donmar's Julius Caesar
Kinky Boots
The Nance
Pippin
Matilda
Trip to Bountiful
Talley's Folley
Glass Menagerie
Waiting for Godot
Orphans
Here Lies Love
Vanya Sonia Masha & Spike

[Green_Flash]

Posted: 12/12/13 at 3:59pm

Sort of in order:
1. Matilda
2. Hands on a Hardbody
3. The Other Place
4. Here Lies Love
5. Tommy (Stratford)
6. Waiting For Godot (Stratford)
7. Fun Home
8. Curious Incident (West End)
9. Rocky (das Musical, Hamburg)

[After Eight]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 6:10am

We all know how cruel the theatre gods can be,--- like 40 years worth of cruel-- but they can sometimes be kind as well. They showed unusual largesse this year by allowing us to revisit some treasures from the past, and these provided the best evenings of the year. My two favorite shows both bore the word "happy" in their titles, and happy they certainly made me. Anita Loos's delightful and charming Happy Birthday, done by the always expert Tact Company, was pure ambrosia. Happy Hunting at the York was a rollicking romp that put all our current musicals to shame.

The other revivals that stood out were Donnybrook!; Juno and the Paycock; The Glass Menagerie; The Trip to Bountiful; The Film Society, with excellent performances by Euan Morton and Roberta Maxwell; and The Detour.

Among the new pieces, my favorites were Horton Foote's The Old Friends, wonderfully acted, and Martha Clarke's exquisite Chéri.

59 E 59 had several worthwhile plays: Two Point Oh, with a noteworthy performance by Jack Noseworthy; Jericho; and Ghetto Babylon.

By far the best new musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder was clever and winning. As a specialty piece, Nutcracker Rouge was amusingly outré.

Other new works I enjoyed were Nikolai and the Others, splendidly acted; A Kid Like Jake; Gorilla; and Hit the Wall.

These shows helped reaffirm the value of going to the theatre.

[BroadwayChica]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 2:46pm

I'll play.

In no order:

Then She Fell
Twelfth Night
Saint Joan
Matilda
Pippin
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Buyer and Cellar
Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
The Glass Menagerie
Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

[jv92]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 6:43pm

I'll do a top five:

1. Fun Home (Public Theater)
2. Passion (Classic Stage Company)
3. The Landing (VIneyard Theater)
4. The Nance (Lincoln Center Theater; Belasco Theater)
5. The Glass Menagerie (Booth Theater)

One commercial for-profit Broadway show (and not a musical or new play, at that) says a lot about the state of the commercial Broadway theater.



Updated On: 12/22/13 at 06:43 PM

[Wickedmonkey332]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 7:08pm

Of what I saw in NYC:

1) Matilda
2) Fun Home
3) The Glass Menagerie
4) Pippin
5) Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
6) After Midnight
7) The Trip to Bountiful
Kinky Boots

[jetts7]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 8:04pm

My Top 10 Favorite of 2013 (Not in a particular order):
1. Kinky Boots
2. Matilda
3. The Trip to Bountiful
4. First Date
5. Pippin
6. Evita (National Tour)
7. Disaster
8. Big Fish
9. The Glass Menagerie
10. Chaplin (Saw it at the beginning of 2013)

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 8:12pm

1. Fun Home
2. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
3. The Flick
4. Pippin
5. Passion
6. Then She Fell
7. The Last Five Years
8. Domesticated
9. The Glass Menagerie
10. Matilda

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 8:16pm

Just counting those that opened this year, here are my top 13 of 2013:

After Midnight
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
Buyer and Cellar
Fun Home
Matilda
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Passion
Pippin
The Apple Family Plays
The Glass Menagerie
Twelfth Night
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Violet

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 12/22/13 at 8:37pm

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? By far the best thing I have seen this year. Just on a completely different level than anything else I saw.

2. The Glass Menagerie
3. Pippin
4. Scottsboro Boys (Los Angeles)
5. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
6. Matilda

[aaronb]

Posted: 12/28/13 at 4:36pm

A little late, but here's mine:

1. TWELFTH NIGHT
2. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
3. JEKYLL & HYDE
4. THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY
5. AFTER THE FALL
6. BAD JEWS
7. THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN
8. RICHARD III
9. MARIE ANTOINETTE
10. THE NANCE


Link Updated On: 12/28/13 at 04:36 PM

[The Josh]

Posted: 12/28/13 at 7:19pm

My top 10, in alphabetical order

Columbinus (Boston)
Fun Home
The Glass Menagerie (only saw it in Cambridge)
Matilda
Mies Julie (Boston)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin (in Cambridge and New York)
Tribes (Boston)
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 12/29/13 at 12:22am

My Favorites of the shows that opened this year, more or less in order:

1. Aladdin (pre-Broadway tryout in Toronto) - by far my favorite this year. Amazing dancing and choreography, singing and music and orchestrations, costumes, staging, lighting and sets, acting, book, new songs. Just all-around a pure delight.

2. Pippin - wonderful performances and great integration of show with circus theme
3. If/Then (pre-Broadway tryout in DC) - great singing and acting from entire cast with Idina Menzel a particular stand-out, lots of great songs
4. Les Miserables (pre-Broadway tryout in Toronto) - my three favorite performances in this production were from Earl Carpenter as Javert, Ramin Karimloo as Valjean, and Melissa Neill as Eponine, only 1 of whom is transferring with the show to Broadway. Earl Carpenter's gorgeous singing alone was worth the price of admission.
5. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike - very funny, esp. DHP's monologue
6. Matilda - uplifting story
7. Glass Menagerie - memorable performance by Cherry Jones - first time Amanda has been likeable in any production that i have seen.
8. Far From Heaven - Kelli O'Hara singing. 'nuff said
9. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - clever and funny
10. Big Fish - heartwarming tearjerker


Updated On: 12/29/13 at 12:22 AM

[mjroberts972]

Posted: 12/29/13 at 2:40pm

1. Fun Home
2. Pippin
3. Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike
4. Kinky Boots
5. After Midnight

[gstrus2]

Posted: 12/29/13 at 2:53pm

I saw Great Comet and Beautiful yesterday, so now I am done for the year.
My Top 10 (in no particular order):
Matilda, Pippin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Murder Ballad, Here Lies Love, If/Then (DC), Fun Home, Great Comet of 1812, Glass Menagerie, and Honeymoon in Vegas (Papermill).

[tmbyru]

Posted: 12/29/13 at 11:11pm

1. Hands on a Hardbody
2. Kinky Boots
3. Matilda
4. Pippin
5. Big Fish
6. The Nance
7. Vanya
8. Peter (off Broadway)
9. Buyer and Cellar
10. Ann

[jv92]

Posted: 1/10/14 at 9:34pm

re: "Im surprised about GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE..."

I'm not. It was a twee romp for the geriatric crowd. I'm all for old throwbacks, but I laughed twice-- once at Jefferson Mays in one of his ridiculous hats when he played the old British woman, and once when...oh wait, never mind. I only laughed once.