Seeing Next to Normal for the first time (on tour), with Alice Ripley
The first time i heard Kelli O'Hara sing (in Nice Work, Someone to Watch Over me) i was totally smitten with her voice, and when she did that thing with the gun, i was smitten with her acting
The Goodspeed production of Carousel, with James Snyder's soliloquy - phenomenal voice and acting, and utterly heartbreaking performance (also If I Loved You - amazing voice)
My first time seeing Wicked, with a tremendously-talented Vicki Noon on as Elphaba - awesome
The tap dancing in Anything Goes, Newsies, Aladdin, BOM, and Something Rotten!, and Jeremy Jordan's Santa Fe in Newsies (i apparently love me some Casey Nicholaw tap choreo)
Aaron Tveit's last performance of Goodbye in Catch Me
Idina Menzel's last performance of Always Starting Over in If/Then
Tam Mutu as Anatoly on tour in Chess
The hilarity of Toxic Avenger and BOM, on tour, and of Something Rotten, on Broadway
Kelli and Steven's duets in Bridges, plus It All Fades Away
Being thoroughly delighted by Sister Act, despite not having great expectations based on the "religious theme" implied by the title. Especially loved the double-costume-change sequence in I Could Be That Guy - clever, funny, and touching.
Three local/regional productions that improved (for me) on their Broadway/tour counterparts: Cabaret, with Cliff's powerful songs left intact and a heartwrenching performance of the title song by the same wonderful local actress who played Diana in that theatre's N2N; Mary Poppins, with wonderful tap choreography (best i've seen at that level); and Avenue Q
Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple
Cherry Jones in The Glass Menagerie and also in When we Were Young and Unafraid
Updated On: 9/9/16 at 05:30 PM
