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What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
#25re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:05am
Lili Taylor has made me cry twice on two separate occasions: Aunt Dan and Lemon and Landscape of the Body. I walked down 42nd Street crying for a good ten minutes after Landscape.
As far as musicals go, I was fighting back tears during Jacques Brel..., especially during the combined wallop of Natascia Diaz's "My Death" and Gay Marshall's "Marieke". "Fable" from Light in the Piazza always gets me whenever I hear it, too.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Dollypop
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#26re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:11am
Elizabeth Ashley in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Patti LuPone in MASTER CLASS
Richard Kiley in MAN OF LA MANCHA
Angela Lansbury in GYPSY
Herschel Bernardi in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
and, of course...
The Goddess Carol Channing when she appeared at the top of the stiras in HELLO, DOLLY!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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#27re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:19am
Meh, I don't care if it's technically not a show, but Gerard Butler in the Phantom movie, when they kiss and he starts crying and especially his "Christine, I love you." No one in the Phantom show made me cry that hard.
Let's see also...Idina in Wicked, Amy Spanger and Joe Cassidy in Feeling Electric, Adam Pascal/Daphne Rubin-Vega/Jesse L. Martin/Anthony Rapp in Rent (Rent 10), and almost all casts I've seen in productions of Miss Saigon and Ragtime. Those are crying killers.
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#28re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:25amThe 4th story in Amajuba. That was the first time I've cried in public in a very long time; I was bawling.
#29re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:52amRaul in Taboo during "Petrified"
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/05
#30re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:56amThere are alot that come to mind. Heather Headley and Adam Pascal during "Elaborate Lives", more recently, Orfeh during "My Son"
#31re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 9:32am
Patti Conheur during LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA - clearly when she was on as Margaret. I have NEVER cried so hard in a theater.
Mary Stuart Masterson AND Laura Benanti in NINE - the first for the song "Be On Your Own" - the second for the way she played out the scene where Guido puts the glasses on her face - I was reduced to a sobbing idiot EVERY TIME. The two of them alone were worth the price of admission.
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
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#32re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 9:40amKristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree (she was AMAZING) and Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern in Little Women
Defy Gravity!!
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#33re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 9:57amPretty much any Fanties's death scene from Les Miz.
#34re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:01amVictoria Clark - LITP
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#35re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:06am
Till now, only one, and he's not in my beloved Les Miz.
Alfred Molina's Tevye in Fiddler on the roof.
davalmar
Swing Joined: 8/3/06
#36re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:13am
Victoria Clark. 100 percent. I cry every time I listen to parts of LITP on my ipod. What a performance, and what a voice!
Also, Celia Keenan-Bolger in Speeling Bee will tear your heart out. That girl is one of the brightest stars on Broadway.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#37re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:22am
Sarah Saltzberg as Logainne in Spelling Bee. When she's eliminated on "vug" and shows her vulnerability, I get emotional.
Katie Clarke's reaction as Clara to Aaron Lazar singing "Love to Me" brought me to tears both times I saw the show.
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Updated On: 8/9/06 at 10:22 AM
#38re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:27am
I am personally a big baby and cry at everything (You think it's a joke, lol)...I get it from my mom, she cried after WEDDING SINGER as she repeated "how come does this for me,lol"
But the most recent crying story i have, took place last night- Meryl Streep in Mother Courage, I am the biggest baby...lol
#39re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:28amAudra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell in "Ragtime." A wonderful pirece with GREAT performances.
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#40re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:44am
Judy Garland at The Palace
Mary Martin in Peter Pan
Shirley Booth in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Paul Muni in Inherit The Wind
Julie Harris in The Lark
Robert Morse in Say, Darling
Lynne Fontanne in The Visit
Eileen Heckart in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Richard Burton in Camelot, Hamlet, and Equus
Inga Swenson in 110 in the Shade
Beatrice Lillie in High Spirits
Maureen Stapleton in The Little Foxes
George Hearn in La Cage aux Folles
Len Cariou in Sweeney Todd
Keith Carradine in The Will Rogers Follies
Melissa Errico in One Touch of Venus
Elaine Stritch in A Delicate Balance
Christopher Plummer in Barrymore
Savion Glover in Noise/Funk
Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz
Barbara Cook in Plain and Fancy, The Music Man, and Candide
The entire cast of A Class Act (on Broadway)
#41re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:49am
Sarah Uriarte Berry in Taboo - "Il Adore"
Jaime Lee Kirchner in RENT (2004 non-eq tour) - "Without You"
Marcus Paul James in RENT (2005 non-eq tour) - "I'll Cover You: Reprise" I've seen him twice on tour, in 2004 and 2005, but for some reason he made me turn into a sobbing little bitch in 2005 when he sang that song.
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#42re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:57amOh, I agree about Celia Keenan-Bolger in Spelling Bee. The I Love You Song definitely made me cry, much to my surprise.
#43re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:21amLaChanze in TCP...Isabelle Keating as Judy in Boy From Oz...Leslie Jordan and Dale Dickey in "Southern Baptist Sissies" in LA.
#44re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:28am
~Hugh Jackman and Jarrod Emick during 'I Honestly Love You" in the Boy From OZ
~Adam Pascal during "I Don't Care Much" in Cabaret
~Alan Cumming in The Threepenny Opera, though that was purely because I was finally seeing him perform live and had nothing to do with his performance
~John Tartaglia, Barrett Foa and Howie Michael Smith all had me in tears during Rods little therapy sessions with Christmas Eve in Avenue Q
~Manoel Felciano had me crying during the majority of the second act of Sweeney Todd
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#45re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:34amThank you Traci. How could I have forgotten Hugh and Jarrod in Boy From Oz. Especially when they KISSED!!!
#46re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:43am
Raul Esparza in Taboo (Petrified)
John Lloyd Young in Jersey Boys
Idina Menzel and Jennifer Laura Thompson in Wicked (For Good)
Victoria Clark in Light in the Piazza
Billy Crudup in The Pillowman
Adam Pascal in Cabaret (I Don't Care Much)
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#47re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:49am
You're welcome JarNerdAV. 
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#48re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:55am
Over the years --
*Richard Kiley in MAN OF LA MANCHA - practically the whole show
*Only in the recording, but - Richard Burton singing the reprise of the title song in CAMELOT ( when he tells the little boy to keep the ideals of Camelot alive)
*Some scenes in Les Miserables - the death scene of Fantine, A Little Fall of Rain, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Do You Hear the People Sing ( especially the latter, as I had first seen the show when we had a similar political upheaval in our country)
*Ending of PASSION, with Michael Ball and Maria Friedman, also the time when Michael sings "I Love Fosca" in a very powerful and very dramatic fashion
*Once Before I Go, with Hugh Jackman in THE BOY FROM OZ
* And a few more tearful moments in a few other shows, including some straight plays
Jo
Updated On: 8/9/06 at 11:55 AM
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#49re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:05pm
Hmmm...I confess, I teared up during:
For Good -- Idina/Jennifer Laura Thompson
Fantine's death, still do
Gavroche's death in Les Miz
A Little Fall of Rain -- Les Miz
Harris Yulin made be BAWL during the last scene on "Diary of Anne Frank". Even though everyone knows how it ends, the scene was just wonderful!!!
I'll Cover You (reprise) -- almost every time I hear it
No Day But Today (the end version) -- BAWL central!
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