TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
SandyRussell
Swing Joined: 9/8/18
#2TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/27/19 at 10:34pm
Top 10 is a little excessive, but Glenda Jackson in Three Tall Women.
#3TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/27/19 at 10:43pm
Personally the best performance I saw this decade was Jake Gyllenhaal in A life earlier this year
#4TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/27/19 at 10:48pmNina Arianda in Venus in Fur, Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night, Mark Rylance in Jerusalem, Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple, Laurie Metcalfe in A Doll’s House: Part 2, Hattie Morahan in A Doll’s House, Bertie Carvel in Matilda, Luke Treadaway in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (West End), Carrie Coon in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Kristine Nielson in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
#5TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/27/19 at 10:50pm
benfox2 said: "Personally the best performance I saw this decade was Jake Gyllenhaal inA lifeearlier this year"
This post has been approved by Jordan Catalano.
SandyRussell
Swing Joined: 9/8/18
#6TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/27/19 at 10:54pm
Here goes
Musicals:
Bette Midler (Hello, Dolly!)
Audra McDonald (The Gershwins Porgy and Bess)
Kristin Chenoweth (On the Twentieth Century)
Tony Shalhoub (The Band's Visit)
Alex Brightman (The School of Rock)
Jessie Mueller (Waitress)
Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Sunday in the Park With George)
Ben Walker ( Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson)
Michael Cerveris (Fun Home)
PLAYS:
Glenda Jackson (Three Tall Women)
Frank Langella (The Father)
Bryan Cranston (All The Way)
Audra McDonald (Lady Day)
Tracy Letts (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
Bryan Cranston (Network)
Mary-Louise Parker (The Sound Inside)
Nathan Lane (Angels in America)
Gideon Glick (Significant Other)
Jessica Lange (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
Hairspray0901
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#7TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/28/19 at 3:02pm
Bradley Cooper - The Elephant Man
Jessie Mueller - Beautiful
Christian Borle - Something Rotten
Alex Sharp - The Curious Incident
Michelle Williams - Blackbird
Carmen Cusack - Bright Star
Ben Platt - DEH
Lauren Ambrose - My Fair Lady
Bryan Cranston - Network
Alan Cumming - Cabaret
#8TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/28/19 at 3:22pmThe very first performance that popped in my mind when I saw this thread was Lesley Manville in “Ghosts” at BAM.
#9TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/28/19 at 5:06pm
Jordan Catalano said: "benfox2 said: "Personally the best performance I saw this decade was Jake Gyllenhaal inA lifeearlier this year"
This post has been approved by Jordan Catalano."
Gonna hang this on my fridge.
#10TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/31/19 at 12:41pm
Nina Arianda in Venus in Fur
Bryan Cranston in Network
Glenda Jackson in Three Tall Women
Cherry Jones, Zachary Quinto, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith in The Glass Menagerie
Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Laurie Metcalf in A Doll’s House, Part 2
John Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Cynthia Nixon in Wit
Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch in A Little Night Music
Ben Platt in Dear Evan Hansen
Impossible2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/31/18
#11TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/31/19 at 1:07pm
Billie Piper - Yerma
Gillian Anderson - Streetcar Named Desire
Frank Langella - The Father
Grace Mclean - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Alan Cumming - Cabaret
Imelda Staunton - Gypsy
James McArdle - Angels in America
Katrina Lenk - The Bands Visit
theatreguy12
Broadway Star Joined: 4/20/15
#12TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/31/19 at 4:07pm
Tony Yazbeck, On the Town
Jessie Mueller, Beautiful
Kristin Chenoweth, On the Twentieth Century
Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen
Audra McDonald, Lady Day
Michael Cerveris, Fun Home
Benjamin Walker, American Psycho
Christopher Jackson, Hamilton
Carmen Cusack, Bright Star
Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman’s Guide
persephone88
Stand-by Joined: 12/30/14
#13TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/31/19 at 4:28pm
Ben Platt - Dear Evan Hansen
Nathan Lane / Andrew Garfield - Angels In America
Cherry Jones - Doubt
Gideon Glick - Significant Other / TKAM
Patina Miller - Pippin
Honorable mentions:
Patrick Page - Hadestown
Hailey Kilgore - Once On This Island
Patrick Vaill - Oklahoma
Tom Glynn Carney - The Ferryman
Sydney James Harcourt - Girl From The North Country
persephone88
Stand-by Joined: 12/30/14
#14TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 12/31/19 at 4:28pm
Argh, double post! Please delete.
Updated On: 12/31/19 at 04:28 PM
#15TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 1/1/20 at 12:56am
My top 10 in no particular order:
Ben Platt - Dear Evan Hansen
Lena Hall - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Lin Manuel Miranda - Hamilton
Alan Cumming - Cabaret
Laura Benanti - She Loves Me
Carmen Cusak - Bright Star
Cynthia Erivo - The Colour Purple
John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Annaleigh Ashford - Sunday in the Park With George
Brian d'Arcy James - Something Rotten!
#16TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 1/1/20 at 11:18am
In no particular order...
- Sutton Foster in Anything Goes
- Kelli O'Hara in Bridges of Madison County
- Adrienne Warren in Tina
- Lauren Ambrose in My Fair Lady
- Lydia Wilson in King Charles III
- Andy Karl in Rocky AND Groundhog Day
- Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly!
- Mary Louise Parker in The Sound Inside
- Steven Boyer in Hand to God
- Stephanie J. Block in The Cher Show
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
magictodo123
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/19
#17TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 1/1/20 at 11:54am
No particular order:
Kerstin Anderson in My Fair Lady
Danny Burstein in Fiddler On The Roof
Bernadette Peters in Hello Dolly!
Alan Cummings in Cabaret
the whole cast of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord
Brian Stokes Mitchell in Shuffle Along....
Quentin Earl Darrington and Lea Salonga in Once On This Island
the whole cast of Come From Away
Elizabeth Stanley and Katheryn Gallagher in Jagged Little Pill
Andre de Sheilds in Hadestown
Honorable mentions: all actors who played Jenna in Waitress on Broadway (specifically Nicolette Robinson, Jessie Mueller, Alison Luff and Molly Jobe), Carmen Cusack in Bright Star, the OBC of Dear Evan Hansen, Kate Rockwell in Mean Girls (that comedic timing she has is SEVERLY underappreciated), Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple, Christy Altomare and John Bolton in Anastasia, Patina Miller in Pippin Beth Malone and Sydney Lucas in Fun Home
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#18TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 1/1/20 at 2:58pm
The entire cast of Fun Home including replacement Gabriella Pizzolo as young Allison.
Alison Luff In Matilda. Many of the kids were spectacular but I’m not comfy putting them against each other.
Stephanie Torns, Nicolette Robinson and Sara Bareilles as Jenna in Waitress. Honorable mention to Jordin Sparks.
Entire cast of Come From Away.
#19TOP 10 PERFORMANCES OF THE DECADE
Posted: 1/1/20 at 3:25pmThe late Georgia Engel in Annie Baker’s JOHN is at the very top of my list.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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