What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#0What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:36am
Male or female.
On or Off Broadway.
Musical, drama, or even comedy.
C'mon...confess...
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#1re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:42amSoo many but I think that's more because I turn into a total pansy when I go see shows. Victoria Clark in LITP comes to mind.
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#2re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:47amSarah Uriarte Berry did it the most to me in the Octet scene in Piazza at the point when she is regretful and decides to stick up for Clara.
#3re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:50amPhylicia Rashad in Gem of the Ocean. I just lost it...
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#4re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:51amYeah really anyone in that cast could make me start crying. Such an amazing show!
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#5re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:52amEmy Baysic made me cry four times when she played Kim in Miss Saigon--in one show!
matt schneider
Broadway Star Joined: 7/3/06
#6re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:53amliterally none, not literally a bunch. You decide my answer, I dont care enough.
The bushes of Tex were nervous recks because their son was dim, But look what happened to him~Dirrty Rotten Scoundrels~all about Ruprecht
They say the thoughtful musicals dead on broadway~forbiden broadway : SVU~The crime scene
Never say never, there's always one more person you can hit up~avenue Q.~the money song
Life sucks, get a pacifyer~my own saying
#7re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:55amRaul, Company. Being Alive. Honestly, moved to tears.
#8re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:11am
John Owen Jones, the current Valjean in the London production of Les Mis. Basket case each time I saw him in the show. 
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#9re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:15am
Let me guess, kec, "Bring Him Home"?
Both Jean Valjeans I saw made me cry for that.
I can just sing the song with a chorus and it makes me choke up and cry.
I notice Aaron Lazar will be performing that song in Philly in the upcoming concert with Kelli O'Hara.
"If God had granted me a son..."
Wahhhhh!
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#10re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:16amReally?? Wow I would kill to her his version!
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
#11re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:22am
Patti Cohenour and Kelli O'Hara in Piazza
Brooke Shields in Wonderful Town
many others.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#12re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:22am
Real theatre folk cry.
They possess sensitivity and compassion.
#13re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:43amDeirdre O'Connell, Gloria Rebuen, and Amy Brenneman's combined efforts in the final scene of the Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2006 production of A NERVOUS SMILE (and Deirdre O'Connell throughout).
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#14re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:43am
Amy Spanger in Feeling Electric
Ben Gazara, Zoey Wannamaker and Pablo Schrieber in "Awake and Sing"
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Janelle188
Understudy Joined: 1/10/06
#15re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:45amMaureen McGovern in "Little Women." When she sang "Days of Plenty" and she got to that big bursting, "So believe that she mattered. . ." basically until the end of the song, I just lost it. My mom leaned over and was whispering, "Are you okay?" because tears were pouring down my face. Her voice is so spectacular and powerful.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#16re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:46am
In the little musical that was playing at The Algonquin, Talk of The Town, Adam MacDonald made me cry when sang "Through a Writer's Eyes." He was portraying writer/playwright Robert Sherwood, who had been a soldier through WWI and was intending to write about it.
Robert Sherwood
Updated On: 8/9/06 at 02:46 AM
#17re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:02am
Michael Crawford in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, Sherie as Amneris, and Idina as Elphie.
I ball the entire way through LES MIZ no matter who it is 
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
mikeyb16
Broadway Star Joined: 1/22/06
#18re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:07amAmy Nuttall in the UK Tour of "My Fair Lady" Her rendition of "Could Have Danced All Night" was heart-moving!
#19re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:16am
"Let me guess, kec, "Bring Him Home"? "
That starts it By the time the final scene has come the tears are flowing down my face.
The same actor made me cry for his Phantom as well. It was the first time I had ever cried at the end of POTO -- I've seen the show seven times.
#20re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:28am
Michael Cerveris and Manoel Felciano
With entire cast of "Sweeney Todd"
Closing Ballad/Finale
Robert Cuccioli, Natascia Diaz, Gay Marshall, Drew Sarich
Cast of Jacques Brel...
Almost every song
#21re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:23amVictoria Clark. Especially during "Fable".
"You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you."
- Maya Angelou
#22re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:43am
Anytime I see Les Miz, my eyes are wet from Fantine's death, right through to the end, usually.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens yet. That was the most moving performance I've ever seen.
There were many moments in Ragtime- Sarah's death, Marin Mazzie singing Back to Before, Stokes singing Make Them Hear You, and the end.
I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting, but those are the biggies.
broadwaybound882
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/05
#23re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:47amHoward McGillin, the final lair scene, "Phantom of the Opera"
FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#24re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:50am
"Amy Spanger in Feeling Electric"
Couldn't agree more ZONEACE. The end of act 1 absolutely broke my heart.
Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
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