The best PLAY youve ever seen

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

The best PLAY youve ever seen#0

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:22pm

What is the best Broadway play (no music) that youve ever seen? You can post the worst also.

[Matt_G]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#1

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:23pm

SIDE MAN
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE
OUR TOWN (Hal Holbrook)

"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."

Updated On: 7/30/04 at 10:23 PM

[M J R]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#2

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:23pm

Among the best I've seen - "The Cider House Rules" in LA

"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears

[luvtheEmcee]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#3

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:24pm

I don't have too many to choose from, but The Normal Heart certainly deserves mention.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[MargoChanning]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#4

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:27pm

Tons of choices from over the years (HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, MASTER HAROLD, THE REAL THING JOE TURNER, AMADEUS), but the original production of ANGELS IN AMERICA blew me away like nothing else I've ever seen.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 7/30/04 at 10:27 PM

[SammyGal]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#5

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:28pm

The Normal Heart.
Hands Down.

On a clear day I can see myself for miles ~Taboo

[M J R]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#6

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:30pm

Oh definitely Angels in America.....

"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#7

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:34pm

I thought THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW and SIXTEEN WOUNDED were amazingly profound new dramas this year and were 100% overlooked.

FROZEN and I AM MY OWN WIFE were the highlights of this years exquisite offering of dramas. They were PACKED with truly powerhouse performances. Just phenomenal.

[ItSucks2BAveQ]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#8

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:35pm

ANGELS IN AMERICA AND ITS "SEQUEL" WERE UNBEATABLY ASTOUNDING.

[M J R]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#9

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:37pm

Not to generalize, but I'm so happy to see someone with the word WICKED in their screenname talk about something like this!

"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears

[Paul LW]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#10

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:37pm

The House of Blue Leaves

And..

The Cripple of Inishmaan ---> such a brilliant dark, irish, comedy. SO GOOD!

[Unknown User]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#11

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:39pm

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

Thrilling theatrical experience.

[mominator]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#12

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:39pm

Golda's Balcony

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[ItSucks2BAveQ]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#13

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:40pm

MJR- Yes. The Wicked fans (otherwise known as the children of the corn) talk about things other than Wicked itself. Shocking.

[M J R]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#14

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:42pm

* bows head

"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears

[bta212]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#15

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:58pm

"Streetcar" Glenn Close in London,
"Blown Sideways Through Life"
"Torch Song"
"Night Mother"
Any Charles Ludlam Theatre of the Ridiculous

"They have never understood, and no reason that they should. But if anybody could . . . " --SS

[TheNPH]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#16

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:14pm

Proof

"And it's mean and ugly..." NPH describing the world in 'Take me to the world' from Evening Primrose

[Unknown User]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#17

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:43pm

AMADEUS
BENT
THE ELEPHANT MAN
OTHELLO (Jones and Plummer)

[BlueWizard]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#18

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:46pm

Unfortunately, I haven't seen many fine productions of plays (since they're usually priced the same as musicals, and given a choice, I'd take the musical), but THE NORMAL HEART shook my emotional core like no other show ever has.

BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."

[judy_in_disguise]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#19

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:52pm

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Stratford Festival.

[Mamie]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#20

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:52pm

The Invention of Love
Proof
W;t

Off-Broadway:
The Guys
Talking Heads

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[Unknown User]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#21

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:55pm

Miami Production of "Death of a Salesman" with Hal Holbrook as Willie Loman 1995
London - "Run for Your Wife" - Mid-1980's Perfect British Farce! by Ray Cooney...The play is so funny that even a group of terrible amateurs I saw a few years age made it work.
London - "Stepping Out" Funny poignant...brillianly performed.. died crossing the pond and in Lisa Minelli film version.
New York - "Side Man"
"Proof".....both these plays are thought provoking, powerful yet easily understood.
Ask me tomorrow and the list will probably change....
Worst? "Copenhagen" Huh? ..Nothing like a night of physics and hopscotch.
Could be even worse? When Disney produces a non-musical....Did anyone see that plastic, awful, pablumed down version of "The Miracle Worker" on TV a few years back?

[Qfan]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#22

Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:23am

I've said it before and I'll say it until i die : "I am My own wife" is a play at its best with great drama and great humor with a perfect performance.

"Look on the Bright Side Not on the Blackside get off your backside shine those shoes! This is your golden opportunity: Your the lightning and the news!" -Assassins

[POLisPOL]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#23

Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:32am

Noises off!!!!! I laughed all the show long!

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!

[johny0828]

re: The best PLAY youve ever seen#24

Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:38am

lost in yonkers