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The best PLAY youve ever seen
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#75re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 1:11am
Wow. I forgot I even started this thread. 
#76re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 2:16am
over the river and through the woods
the goat or who is sylvia
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
#77re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:25am
Kelsey Grammar was indeed CASSIO (not Cassius, he's from that other Shakespeare play).
That "other Shakespeare play" would be JULIUS CAESAR...
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#78re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:59am
THE VISIT.
absurd and breathtaking. truly a wonderful piece of spoken word theater
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
sciguy
Stand-by Joined: 12/2/04
#79re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:30am
MEDEA (Fiona Shaw)
I still get chills every time I think about it. I still remember the few seconds of silence when the play ended, before the applause began. Sheer brilliance!
kas
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/05
#80re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:39amStreetcar Named Desire at the Hartford Stage.
#81re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:05am
"That "other Shakespeare play" would be JULIUS CAESAR..."
Yes, I know it was Caesar. That's what we call sarcasm.
"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!"
#82re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 1:52pm
The Normal Heart.
There isn't a doubt in my mind.
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
My avatar: Yummy, no?
My avatar: Yummy, no?
tkts
Broadway Star Joined: 8/26/03
#83re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 2:02pm
I Am My Own Wife
Doubt
Cake or death?
#84re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 3:03pm
BENT, STREAMERS and ANGELS IN AMERICA are "up there" in my favorites.........HOwever,,,,,to select the BEST---certainly the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's
PLAZA SUITE
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
Radioactiveduck
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
#85re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 3:44pm
I really liked the latest revival of 'NIGHT MOTHER. Incredibly sad show, but very good.
NOISES OFF is quite possibly the funniest play ever written.
grizzabella
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/05
#86re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 5:59pmJust reading everyone's picks brought back memories, but I have to second "Talking Heads" and add "Les Liaisons Dangereuse" (with Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan). It was years ago but brilliant.
"And the postman sighed as he scratched his head, you really rather thought she ought to be dead..."
#87re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:19pm
"Angels in America"
"Speed the plow"
"M butterfly"
And a play every critic seemed to hate but was one of the most thrilling nights in theatre( at the time ) " The twilight of the golds", the stage version was so much better than the film, who ever played the mother in that was stunning..
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
#88re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:28pm
The Normal Heart (#1 in every aspect of my book)
Angels in America (not very surprising)
Proof (brilliant)
~There's plenty more, but that's good enough for now.
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead." -Tony Kushner's Angels in America
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#89re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:31pmFROZEN - Byrony Lavery.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#90re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:35pm
Matt G, my mom loved beauty queen and saw it a lot fo times off broadway.
My favorite is by the same author, THE PILLOWMAN.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
homosezwhat
Chorus Member Joined: 3/8/05
#91re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:58pm
Loved W;t, The Laramie Project, I Am My Own Wife and Prelude to a Kiss (missed Angels in LA & NY, I could kick myself)but I'm gonna say
Nickeled and Dimed
because nobody else has and becuase I really went nuts for the production when i saw it at the Taper in LA a couple of years ago.
I still smile when I think of it.
Theatreboy33
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#92re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:00pm
Angels in America
Take Me out
The Pillowman
it surprises me so many people list amadeus. i've only seen the mckellen version on film at the lincoln center library, but I feel Shaffer vastly improved on his script for the film and that the film is far superior to the stage play. but perhaps this is only in hindsight of the film.
#93re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/16/05 at 12:11am
Hands down; Vieux Carre. There was a production in my hometown (Omaha, NE) three years ago that absolutely blew me away. What a powerful show; wish it were produced more often.
Cheers,
C.
www.christopherviolett.com
#94re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:15am
How could i forget...
Indiscretions (Les Parents Terribles), with Kathleen Turner and Jude Law...
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#96re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:22amMy pick would be Golda's Balcony...but...is that show considered a play or a "one woman show"?
"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#97re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:32am
I have seen a lot of great plays but there is one above the rest!
1. The Normal Heart- Raul Esparza/Public Theater
2. In The Continuum- 59 East 59th
A few other top contenders:
Fuddy Meers- I love Abaire
Curse of the Starving Class-
Take Me Out
The best time- Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
Updated On: 10/16/05 at 02:32 AM
where's my shoe?
Understudy Joined: 9/3/05
#98re: The best PLAY youve ever seen
Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:32am
Nothing too original here, but just to solidify the former opinions:
I Am My Own Wife
The Retreat From Moscow
Steel Magnolias
"I am concocting a seduction. I do not require a patissiere."-Boston Marriage
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