Okay, now you've got me doing it!
In no particular order:
A Chorus Line on Bway
(must've been 1982 or 83...1st show ever...showed me that in the theatre we can grieve for the things and people we have lost and then cry tears of joy when they blend back into the line for the finale...made me theatre dependent for the rest of my life...)
W;t
with Kathleen Chalfant once OB at Union Sq and once in LA at Geffen Playhouse. Much, much funnier than the film, much larger character arc, and profoundly moving
Caroline or Change
2x on Bway. Split me wide open and left me with hope for humanity.
Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme on Bway
Oy. I had never seen an opera, never heard the music, and I got rush tix for the front row and was so overwhelmed by the power of the music and the visuals that I honestly thought I was going to have to leave my seat because I was white-knuckling the armrests and I was shaking and sweating from the effort it was taking me not to cry out in huge Puccini-inspired sobs. And that was just act I.
one more? just one? good lord.
The Trip to Bountiful
Signature theatre last week.
Wow. I was so not expecting this show to speak to me. This show is...everything I want from theatre. I left feeling raw and compassionate and humbled by how much nobility and grace and regret and hope each one of us carries inside.
Honorable mention...Angels in America. I have read it a million times and I've seen parts of it at the Lincoln Center Library and I wish I had stood in front of the theatre and begged for a ticket the week I was visiting from LA for the Gay Games and Stonewall 25.
Uch.
Updated On: 1/25/06 at 09:31 PM
