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#26

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 4:18pm

Best:

- Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity
- Lisa O'Hare as Mary Poppins (lon)
- Idina Menzel in Wicked
- Sandra Joseph in POTO
- Susan Owen in POTO
- Hugh Panaro in POTO
- Colin Bates in Billy Elliot
- Maria Freidman in WIW

Worst:

- I have to agree about Tim Martin Gleason in POTO
- Michael Ball in WIW

tell me more, tell me more...how much dough did he spend?

#27

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 4:22pm

Tyne Daly in GYPSY

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

#28

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 4:32pm

Best:

Natasha Richardson...A Streetcar Named Desire
Cherry Jones...Doubt
Bernadette Peters...Gypsy
Patti LuPone...Sweeney Todd

Worst:

Harvey Fierstein...Fiddler on the Roof
David Ayers...Wicked

#29

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 4:40pm

Best - Julie Andrews in MY FAIR LADY
Worst - Glenn Close in SUNSET BLVD.

#30

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 4:59pm

Best: Stephanie J. Block in Wicked and Pirate Queen
second place goes to Sutton Foster in Little Women.

Worst: the entire cast of Blood Brothers in London. and that girl that played Amy in Little Women.

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

#31

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 5:39pm

Best-Angela Lansbury-"Mame"

Worst- Robert Goulet as Arthur in "Camelounge"

#32

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 8:16pm

Best:
-Audra Mconald "Ragtime"
-Brian Stokes Mitchell "Ragtime"
-Ana Gasteyer "Wicked"
-Jay Johnson "JJ:TTAO"
-Hugh Jackman "The Boy from Oz"

Worst:
-Christy Carlson Romano "Beauty and the Beast"
-Kate Reinders "Wicked"

#33

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 8:25pm

John Lloyd Young-Jersey Boys
-bwayfan4life

so he does the performances now?

Can, can I have it?

#34

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 8:26pm

best
Kerry buter in Hairspray and little shop
lachanze in color purple
vanessa williams in into the woods
gavin lee in mary poppins
Felicia P Fields in color purple
cheno in apple tree
cast Steel peer was amazing including cheno
Sutton Foster in millie
rosie in grease, i really liked her
michael crawford in dance of the vampires
Blyth danner in follies
reba in annie get your gun

Worst
Berneddette peters in annie get your gun{ not worst but somewhere in the middle}

Updated On: 1/10/07 at 08:26 PM

#35

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 8:27pm

Worst: Helen Dallimore in Wicked
Best: Idina Menzel in Wicked

#36

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 9:36pm

best:
roger bart - YAGMCB, The Producers (Leo Bloom, Carmen Ghia), The Frogs
hunter foster - urinetown, The Producers (Leo Bloom), an Oak Tree, LSOH
kerry butler -LSOH
nathan lane - the odd couple, the producers obc, the frogs, butley, anything he's done at all!

worst:
idina - in anything. can't stand her. i'm sorry.

We were fated to be mated. We're Bialystock & Bloom!

#37

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 9:53pm

Best:
Christine Ebersole in "Grey Gardens" I was crammed into the most uncomfortable seat on the planet and not once did I look at my watch. . that says something. The way she said "I'm extremely organized" before AWIAST literally made me jump and tear up. An incredibly tight performance. . dramatically and comedically.

Worst:
Ariana Fernandez in the national tour of "Rent". . by god I've never seen a worse performance in a musical. I've heard better "Out Tonight"'s by gay men at karaoke.

#38

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/10/07 at 11:19pm

I liked BSM in Sweeney. He seemed absolutely unhinged.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

#39

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/11/07 at 1:24am

Norbert's performance in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was just fatnastic, fantastic work, in my opinion. It truly was the best performance I've ever seen, and secured his shaky spot as my male role model for life.

The worst? Well, George Hearn phoned in just about the worst performance of the Wizard that I could ever imagine. He stumbled over his lines (I'd seen the show numerous times, and the words that come out of his mouth were nothing like Winnie Holzman's original script), failed to impress with dancing, and croaked instead of sang. I'm not sure if I can call it the worst, on second thought, as that could also go to the understudy I saw go on as Lawrence in DRS. Horrible, horrible, horrible. (And no, I'm not a two-trick pony; I've seen more shows than Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Wicked, thank you very much.)

#40

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/11/07 at 2:21am

Best -
Alan Alda in Glengarry Glenross
Liev Schreiber in Glengarry Glenross
Come to think of it, pretty much everyone in that cast was amazing.

Laura Linney in Sight Unseen

I don't have any worst experiences, as of yet.

"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables

#41

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/11/07 at 2:34am

Well I’ve seen a lot of great performances, so I would define “best” as a performance so great, that you forget it’s just a character in a show, and it seems like you’re watching a real person.

Best
Douglas Sills as Percy in the Pimpernel Tour. Seriously my mouth was hanging open during “Prayer”. When I watched him, I wasn’t even thinking that it was his final performance. It was just Percy.

Worst
Corey Glover as Judas in the JCS Farewell Tour. It.Was.Bad. I was actually snickering at one point, and I wasn’t trying to!

#42

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/11/07 at 2:38am

Best

Ethel Merman in "Hello, Dolly!"
Angela Lansbury in "Gypsy"
Tyne Daly in "Gypsy"
Hugh Jackman "The Boy From Oz"
Anita Morris "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"
Austin Miller (Link) in "Hairspray"
Richard H Blake (Tony) in "Saturday Night Fever"
Lauren Bacall in "Applause"

The Absolute Worst Ever....

The entire cast of "Lestat" EXCEPT for the 3 minutes or so of the little girl vampire singing "I Want More".

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

#43

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/11/07 at 6:46am

RevolutionaryCostume, I completely agree with you're worst list. She was just god-awful! (Though I must admit, the guy who played Roger was amazing, woohoo to Bryce Ryness!)

Your aspirations are your possibilities-Samuel Johnson (and a little help from nomdeplume)

#44

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/11/07 at 11:28am

Best:

Idina Menzel- Wicked
Kristen Chenoweth- Wicked
Carole Shelly- Wicked
Antonique Smith- RENT
Ruthie Henshall-Les Mis, and Chicago
Lisa Vromen- Phantom of the Opera
Victoria Clark- Light in the Piazza

Worst:

Norbert Leo Butz- Wicked
Gretchen Mol- Chicago
Derrick Williams- Wicked

#45

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/12/07 at 8:22am

BEST

Idina Menzel - Wicked
Kelli Fournier - Aida
Raul Esparza - tick...Tick...BOOM!
Norbert Leo Butz - The Last Five Years
Michael Therriault - Lord of the Rings

WORST

Joel Grey - Wicked
Mickey Dolenz - Aida

#46

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/12/07 at 8:56am

I only know best:

Heather Headley in AIDA
Pia Douwes in ELISABETH

#47

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/12/07 at 9:00am

The best live performance I personally ever witnessed was that of Brenda Blethyn in 'NIGHT, MOTHER.

The worst live performance I witnessed was that of Amanda Peet in BAREFOOT IN THE PARK.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#48

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/12/07 at 9:18am

BEST:
Vanessa Redgrave-LONG DAY'S JOURNEY...
Mary Louise Parker-PROOF
Christine Ebersole-GREY GARDENS
Tonya Pinkins-CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
Meryl Streep-MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
Julie White-THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
Billy Crudup-THE PILLOWMAN

WORST:
Alexander Gemignani-LES MISERABLES
Nancy Anderson-FANNY HILL
Brian Henderson-GETTING HOME
Oscar Isaac-TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
Dylan McDermott-THE TREATMENT
Katharine Powell-THE WATER'S EDGE

"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

#49

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/12/07 at 10:21am

I thought that Kate Reinders was absolutely wonderful in Wicked. I don't understand why she gets put down. I also was completely struck by Ana Gasteyer's gorgeous voice.

Other best performances:

Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson in Grey Gardens
Michael Rupert and Debbie Allen in Sweet Charity
Tommy Tune in My One and Only
Robert Morse in Tru
Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd

Updated On: 1/12/07 at 10:21 AM

#50

re: The best and worst live performance witnessed

Posted: 1/12/07 at 10:42am

Best
Jefferson Mays - I Am My Own Wife
Dame Maggie Smith - Lettuce And Lovage
Brian Dennehey - Death of A Salesman
Kathy Bates - 'night Mother
Amanda Plumber - Agnes of God
Cherry Jones - The Heiress

Worst
Mel B - RENT

"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!"

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