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#26

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/16/09 at 10:19pm

Musical: Patti in Gypsy

Play: I can't remember his name or the part he played but this guy played Oliver Platt's role in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Shining City. I really haven't seen that many plays.
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#29

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/16/09 at 10:31pm

UAisGREAT, I totally agree with you on Butz. If I was judge souly based on voice, if deffenitly wouldn't be him.. and he deffenitly didn't have the most emotionally draining performance ever.. but as we know, a performance isn't just based on voice.. and having a voice like Paulo Szot isn't required for the role he played. Like you said, his comedic timing, and total ebodiment of the character was so incredible, that he just had me captivated the entire time. His singing voice fit the character extremely well. The guy had such a strong stage presence.
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#31

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/16/09 at 10:49pm

For pure stamina and amazing talent: Joel Gray in "George M" and Tommy Steele in "Half a Sixpence."

or "wow, I was there"" The Merm, when I was six, in "Gypsy" and opening night of Camelot.

That makes me as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Updated On: 6/16/09 at 10:49 PM

#34

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/16/09 at 10:57pm

I'm 21...

Musical: Patti Lupone in Gypsy or Alice Ripley in Next to Normal, though if pressed to pick one, I'd probably pick Alice.
Play: Amy Morton in August: Osage County; I was pulling for her during Tony season--thought she was remarkable.
#35

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/16/09 at 11:04pm

Musical: Larry Kert as Bobby in Company (1972)
Play: Zoe Caldwell as Maria Callas in Master Class (1996)
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#36

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/16/09 at 11:36pm

Musical: Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens (Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz is a close second.)

Play: I gotta think about this for awhile actually.
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Updated On: 6/16/09 at 11:36 PM

#37

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/16/09 at 11:57pm

I'm 21.

Best Performance in a Play - Male:
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen (FROST/NIXON)

Best Performance in a Play - Female:
Deanna Dunagan (AUGUST: Osage County)

Best Performance in a Musical - Male:
Michael Cerveris (SWEENEY TODD)

Best Performance in a Musical - Female:
Alice Ripley (next to normal)
#38

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/17/09 at 12:03am

Musical: I have never seen a performance like Alice Ripley's in next to normal.

Play: Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon

Edited: And I'm 16.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

Updated On: 6/17/09 at 12:03 AM

#39

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/17/09 at 12:17am

I'm 70+

Play - Rosalind Russel in "Auntie Mame"
Robert Preston in "Lion In Winter" and "Child' Play"

Musical - Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" (live not TV)
Angela Lansbury in "Mame" and"Gypsy"
Michael Crawford in "Phantom"
#41

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/17/09 at 12:31am

This is so hard...I just made a list and it was so long that I just decided to post my number one.

I'm 19.

Tonya Pinkins in CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. "Lot's Wife" was quite possibly the most thrilling four minutes or so I've ever experienced in a theater.

Updated On: 6/17/09 at 12:31 AM

#44

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/17/09 at 1:39am

I'm 21, but only started going to theater regularly since 2007/2008.

Musical: Patti LuPone in Gypsy.

Plays: Estelle Parsons and Johanna Day in August: Osage County.
Dianne Wiest's performance in All My Sons also deserves to be mentioned.
#47

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/17/09 at 3:16am

I'm 25; my first Broadway show was in 1991. There have been a lot but I agree with the above mentions for Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman and Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens. They're two that, as I watched them, I felt I was unquestionably watching history be made.

Also, I thought the cast of the London production of Festen was the most brilliant ensemble acting I've ever seen. It was a huge hit over there and it's really a shame that they screwed up the casting so much for the Broadway production.
#48

re: Okay, whats the greatest performance you've ever seen on stage?

Posted: 6/17/09 at 3:26am

I'd rather call them Most Memorable Performances --

Plays/Musicals --

Ingrid Bergman in More Stately Mansions ( Eugene O'Neill) - I think I was more in awe of her than anything else - I was on the front row and I could almost touch her long skirt on the very low stage - LOL!

Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl - it was my first trip to America and somebody took me to my first Broadway show!

Richard Kiley - Man of La Mancha - very emotional experience!

Richard Dreyfuss - The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( London production) - most enjoyable comedic performance.

Hugh Jackman - The Boy from Oz ( not sure if it was the Broadway or the arena tour in Australia which made the greater impact to me) - simply outstanding - singing, dancing, and acting!

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