Top Five Most Powerful Shows You've Seen- Page 3

[children&art]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 4:34pm

Cabaret (revival, 1999 with Susan Egan & Michael C. Hall)
Caroline or Change
The Wild Party (LaChuisa), Marie Christine (LaChuisa) - tie
Love! Valour! Compassion! (Dallas regional)
ANY production of The Glass Menagerie!

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 4:38pm

Sweeney Todd
Assassins
Cabaret
Sunday in the Park with George
Les Miserables

[jacco]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 4:40pm

1. Angels in America-Netherlands
2. Three Sisiters-Netherlands
3. Company-UK Donmar Revival
4. Cabaret-B'way revival
5. The Light in the Piazza

(just 5? Cruel! Must mention Jesus Christ Superstar-London revival, Titanic-Netherlands, Rent-Netherlands, Billy Elliot, Hedda Gabler-Netherlands, Les Mis London, The Beautiful Game London.....)

[pennywise-poundfoolish]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 4:43pm

Violet.
Sunday in the Park.
Parade.
Sweeney Todd.
Caroline or Change.

did I mention Violet?

[BtMartin25]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 4:48pm

-Ragtime.
--Rent.
---Wicked.
----Sweeney Todd.

[Lome2]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 5:31pm

- Sweeney Todd
- The Beautiful Game (London)
- Les Miz
- Cabaret
- Miss Saigon

[zippyjen]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 5:42pm

cabaret
rent
the normal heart
who's afraid of Virginia woolf?
sweeny todd

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 6:51pm

I have'nt seen many, but here are mine:

1. Sweeney Todd
2. Assassins (particularly "Take a Look Lee")
3. Les Mis

[Overthemoon6]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 7:13pm

Rent
I guess Hairspray, Wicked, and Caroline or Change, but only really because I haven't seen that many powerful shows.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 7:23pm

Plays:
W;t - Alley Theatre
In the Jungle of Cities - Alley Theatre
Not About Nightingales - Alley Theatre
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Alley Theatre
Doubt - Broadway

Musicals:
Caroline, Or Change - Broadway
Miss Saigon - Theatre Under The Stars
Les Miserables - National Tour
Ragtime - National Tour
Rent - Broadway

[MusicAndPassion]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 7:27pm

Now order...

01 - Rent - Broadway
02 - Ragtime - Regional in Nashua, NH
03 - The Lion King - Tour in Boston, MA

Out of all the shows I've seen I've found only three extremely powerful.

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 7:34pm

light in the piazza, little women, aida, wicked, and phantom probably...

:)

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 8:21pm

Merrily We Roll Along
Hair
Rent
Ruthless!
Good Vibrations
Urinetown
A Chorus Line

(personally powerful, for various reasons)

[wexy]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 8:51pm

Metamorphosis-- I cried it was so beautiful
The Exonerated
The Syringa Tree
Anna Christie (with Natasha and Liam)
The Real Thing

Musicals
Cabaret (Alan and Natasha)
Parade
Sweeney Todd (Circle in the Square)

Updated On: 1/25/06 at 08:51 PM

[homosezwhat]

Posted: 1/25/06 at 9:31pm

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