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The best PLAY youve ever seen
#50re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/31/04 at 7:58pm
The Heiress with Cherry Jones
An Inspector Calls
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#51re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/31/04 at 8:13pmThanks, Goat, for "Dirty Blond". It doesn't actually make my list, but I thought it was really terriffic, insightful, touching, funny, etc., and I think everyone I know who saw it was luke-warm on it.
"They have never understood, and no reason that they should.
But if anybody could . . . " --SS
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#52re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/31/04 at 8:35pm
Long Day's Journey Into Night
I Am My Own Wife
The Goat
broadwaybaby486
Swing Joined: 5/27/03
#53re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/31/04 at 10:10pm
I'm not sure if To Kill A Mockingbird has ever been on Broadway, but it is definetly my favorite play. I was in it, and sometimes after the performances we'd let the audience ask questions. And, even then the things the cast would say about the play that I hadn't even thought about were amazing. Being a part of that show was a truly wonderful experience. Also, Atticus's closing speech in the courtroom is brilliant.
~I also like:
-Equus
-Over the River and Through the Woods
-The Woman in Black
-Angel Street
-Angels in America
"Make the most of the music that is yours." -Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 7/31/04 at 10:10 PM
jmnpublications
Broadway Star Joined: 4/2/04
#54re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 7/31/04 at 11:28pm"The Elephant Man" followed closely by "The Gin Game."
#55re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:28pm
I only have two to choose from (The Woman in Black and The Pillowman.) I'd say....... The Woman in Black. Pillowman was a good show, but I liked Woman in Black better. Coincidentally, I screamed at points during both shows, but Pillowman made me scream louder. I told all the cast members except Billy Crudup, and they were all like, "You did?" I am never going to forget Jeff Goldblum's face when he responded. But I thought Woman in Black was better.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
Updated On: 10/14/05 at 09:28 PM
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#56re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:32pm
When I first got to New York, I was blown away by "Torch Song Trilogy," "Agnes of God"... and later on "Fences."
Those plays have stayed with me in memory for a very long time, but I would put "Fences" at the top of my list.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#57re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:40pm
Metamorphosis (it so beautiful that I cried)
The Real Thing
The Piano Lesson
On Borrowed Time (George C Scott and Teresa Wright (Nathan too)
The Madness of George III
A Doll's House
(for starters)
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#58re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:25pm
"A Streetcar named Desire"
"TRU" (Bobby Morse)
"Lucifer's Child" Miss Julie Harris
"Dark of the Moon" (semi musical)
"Whose life is it Anyway?"
"Lettice & Lovage" (Dame Maggie!)
"Our Town"
"Duke" with Julie Newmar
"M. Butterfly" with Alec Mapa!
"The Little Foxes" Miss Taylor AND Miss Channing's versions
and of course,
"The Scottish Play" with the DIVINE Glenda Jackson!!!!
Almost forgot to mention:
"The Ritz" - simply a HOOT!
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
Updated On: 10/14/05 at 10:25 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#59re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:29pm
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (ROSEMARY HARRIS)
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOD (ELIZABETH ASHLEY)
EQUUS
AMADEUS
HAMLET (STACY KEACH)
THE SHADOW BOX
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
edited to include: OTHELLO (JONES?PLUMMER)
Thanks for reminding me of that one!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 10/14/05 at 10:29 PM
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#60re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:33pm
Pillowman
Doubt
Man Who Came to Dinner
#61re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:35pm
I love that someone mentioned the Jones/Plummer Othello. It was way before my time, but my Shakespeare prof regularly cites it as the best Shakespeare performance she's ever seen. We discussed Othello last week and she kept describing this production's interpretation. I wish I could have seen it!
I'm going to refrain from saying anything here because I haven't been going to plays long enough to have a favorite (my parents took me to musicals, and I've only been going to plays regularly since I started college) and don't want to look like a dork by saying something from a year and a half ago. I'll get back to you in a few years.
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"NOW is the winter of our discontent!"
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theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#62re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:36pmWell, it wasn't on Broadway. Candles to the Sun by Tenessee Williams. I saw it a couple weeks ago. It made a big impression on me. But I read this was the secong it's ever been performed. I'm not excatly sure why....it's a great play.
"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question."
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#63re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:37pm
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Redgrave/Dennehey)
Angels In America
Design for Living (Julia/Clayburgh/Langella)
A Delicate Balance (Harris/Stritch/Grizzard)
#64re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:38pm
I really loved Finer Noble Gases, which I saw at USF.
Angels in America, definitely.
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#65re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:34pm
The Laramie Project
Hamlet, MacBeth
I've never seen Angels in America, but Ive heard so much about it, I want to see it.
*Krissy*
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#66re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:40pm
Broadway: The Pillowman
Off Broadway: The Mystery of Irma Vep
*I admit I haven't seen to many plays in NYC*
#67re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:41pm
The original production of Torch Song Trilogy. Afterward, I was literally stopping stangers on the street telling them about this wonderful show.
Also:
Children of A Lesser God
M Butterfly
Oddly enough, I was underwhelmed by Angels in America
'Our whole family shouts. It comes from us livin' so close to the railroad tracks'
#68re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:58pm
I also saw the Jones-Plumber "Othello", first in Palm Beach and then again at the Winter Garden theatre. I saw Diane Wiest in the Palm Beach production and then I saw someone else play Desdemona on Broadway. Kelsey Grammar was indeed CASSIO (not Cassius, he's from that other Shakespeare play). Plumber was most brilliant.
His daughter blew me away in "Agnes Of God".
Here are a few of my other favorites in no order. There are so many others that I could mention but these are some that first came to mind:
'night Mother.
Angels In America
Master Harold and The Boys
M Butterfly
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#69re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 12:01amwho's afraid of virginia woolf
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#70re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 12:02am
-Equus
-Master Harold and the Boys
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#71re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 12:11amWell, if we're talking about original productions of plays that we have seen than the three best that I have seen have most definately been The Pillowman, Metamorphasis and I Am My Own Wife. Pillowman was haunting, Meamorphasis was fascinating, and I Am My Own Wife was touching. Such wonderful works!
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#73re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 12:19amLocal production of Angels in America.
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alli2
Broadway Star Joined: 1/6/05
#74re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 12:21am
THE PILLOWMAN
Followed by Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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