Top 10 Performances of the 07-08 Season

In alphabetical order:

Laura Benanti
Coleman Domingo
Raul Esparza
Kate Fleetwood
Boyd Ganes
Patti LuPone
Mary McCormack
Amy Morton
Jim Norton
Tom Wopat

No Order-
1. Patti Lupone, Gypsy
2. Laura Benanti, Gypsy
3. Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
4. Mary Mccormack, Boeing-Boeing
5. Norbert Leo Butz, Is He Dead?
6. Nathan Lane, November
7. Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
8. Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
9. Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George
10. Lin Manuel Miranda, In The Heights

Honorable Mentions
Sierra Boggess, TLM
Sherie Rene Scott, TLM
Cheyenne Jackson, Xanadu
Mary Testa, Xanadu [Jackie was out the night I saw it..]
Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein

[Note- I have yet to see August: Osage County and/or South Pacific]

Updated On: 6/10/08 at 04:20 PM

No particular order, but Deanna Dunagan is my #1. Includes Off-Bway performances, and doesn't include Ms. Lupone. That's a given.

Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County
Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George
Cast of Passing Strange
Cast of Boeing Boeing, Mark Rylance in particular
Jim Norton, The Seafarer
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights
Julie White, From Up Here
Sarah Steele, Speech & Debate

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Aya Cash, From Up Here
Jayne Houdyshell, The New Century
Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu
Rondi Reed, August: Osage County

Updated On: 6/10/08 at 04:39 PM

No order

Patti LuPone
Mark Rylance
Aaron Tveit
Brian d'Arcy James
Jenna Russell
Daniel Evans
Daniel Breaker
Norbert Leo Butz
Carlos Gomez
Faith Prince


(May change after seeing South Pacific this Sunday)

This isn't necessarily who I think was the best objectively of the season, but my personal favorites. Also I agree, Patti is clearly on everyone's lists, so here are another 10.

Rondi Reed and Amy Morton in August:Osage County
Colman Domingo and Rebecca Naomi Jones in Passing Strange
Andrea Burns and Janet Dacal in In the Heights
Mary Testa and Cheyenne Jackson in Xanadu
Norbert in Is He Dead?
Aaron Tveit in Next to Normal

Honorable Mentions:
Julie White and Will Rogers in From Up Here
Sarah Steele in Speech and Debate
Jenna Russell in Sunday in the Park with George
Charles Busch in Die Mommie, Die!
Mary Faber and Morgan Weed in Saved!
Faith Prince in A Catered Affair
Spencer Liff's abs in Cry Baby

Updated On: 6/10/08 at 06:59 PM

I'm not naming mine, for fear of omission. Isn't it great that we had a season in which there were so many outstanding performances that it's really hard to pick the top ten? Oh, well, I have to throw in my vote for Patti LuPone -- she was just SOOOOOOO great!!!!

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I won't follow the rules as stated, but will stick to it somehow. 10 each for Broadway and Off-Broadway... top 20, alphabetically arranged. On Broadway, still yet to catch Boeing-Boeing and Top Girls; hopefully by this week's end!

Broadway's Ten
Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Ben Daniels, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
Kevin Kline, Cyrano de Bergerac
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights
Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific
David Pittu, Is He Dead?
Loretta Ables Sayre, South Pacific
Cliff Saunders, The 39 Steps
Paulo Szot, South Pacific

Off-Broadway's Ten
Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
Joel Hatch, Adding Machine
Van Hughes, Saved
Linda Lavin, The New Century
Kate Mulgrew, Iphigenia 2.0
Alice Ripley, Next to Normal
Tobias Segal, From Up Here
Brian J. Smith, Good Boys and True
Aaron Tveit, Next to Normal
Jeremy Webb, The Glorious Ones