The best PLAY youve ever seen
The best PLAY youve ever seen
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#0The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:22pmWhat is the best Broadway play (no music) that youve ever seen? You can post the worst also.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#1re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
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
#2re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:23pmAmong 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
#3re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:24pmI don't have too many to choose from, but The Normal Heart certainly deserves mention.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#4re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:27pmTons 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
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 10:27 PM
SammyGal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/04
#5re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:28pm
The Normal Heart.
Hands Down.
On a clear day I can see myself for miles ~Taboo
#6re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:30pmOh definitely Angels in America.....
"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#7re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
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
Stand-by Joined: 6/14/04
#8re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:35pmANGELS IN AMERICA AND ITS "SEQUEL" WERE UNBEATABLY ASTOUNDING.
#9re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
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
Featured Actor Joined: 6/17/04
#10re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
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!
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:39pm
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
Thrilling theatrical experience.
#12re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:39pmGolda'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
Stand-by Joined: 6/14/04
#13re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:40pmMJR- Yes. The Wicked fans (otherwise known as the children of the corn) talk about things other than Wicked itself. Shocking.
#14re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
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
#15re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
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
#16re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:14pmProof
"And it's mean and ugly..." NPH describing the world in 'Take me to the world' from Evening Primrose
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:43pm
AMADEUS
BENT
THE ELEPHANT MAN
OTHELLO (Jones and Plummer)
#18re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:46pmUnfortunately, 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.
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judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#19re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:52pmWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Stratford Festival.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#20re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:52pm
The Invention of Love
Proof
W;t
Off-Broadway:
The Guys
Talking Heads
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
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
Leading Actor Joined: 2/4/04
#22re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:23amI'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
#23re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:32amNoises off!!!!! I laughed all the show long!
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