What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:36am

Male or female.

On or Off Broadway.

Musical, drama, or even comedy.

C'mon...confess...

[gustof777]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:42am

Soo 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.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:47am

Sarah 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.

[Conor]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:50am

Phylicia Rashad in Gem of the Ocean. I just lost it...

[gustof777]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:51am

Yeah really anyone in that cast could make me start crying. Such an amazing show!

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:52am

Emy Baysic made me cry four times when she played Kim in Miss Saigon--in one show!

[matt schneider]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:53am

literally none, not literally a bunch. You decide my answer, I dont care enough.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:55am

Raul, Company. Being Alive. Honestly, moved to tears.

[kec]

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]

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]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:16am

Really?? Wow I would kill to her his version!

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:22am

Patti Cohenour and Kelli O'Hara in Piazza

Brooke Shields in Wonderful Town

many others.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:22am

Real theatre folk cry.

They possess sensitivity and compassion.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:43am

Deirdre 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).

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:43am

Amy Spanger in Feeling Electric

Ben Gazara, Zoey Wannamaker and Pablo Schrieber in "Awake and Sing"

[Janelle188]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:45am

Maureen 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]

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.



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[EponineAmneris]

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

[mikeyb16]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:07am

Amy Nuttall in the UK Tour of "My Fair Lady" Her rendition of "Could Have Danced All Night" was heart-moving!

[kec]

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.

[EugLoven]

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

[Kimmygonbefamous]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:23am

Victoria Clark. Especially during "Fable".

[adamgreer]

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]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:47am

Howard McGillin, the final lair scene, "Phantom of the Opera"

[FeelingElectric]

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.