What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?- Page 4

[DramaQueen700]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:28pm

Pattie and Michael Cerveris in Passion, during the "No One Has EVer Loved Me" song.

Aaron Lazar made me cry just because of how GOOD he was, not because it was a sad moment in the show, in piazza.

of course, victoria clark, the genius.

maureen mcgovern-little women

for good with idina and kristin

i cried during "who loves you" in jersey boys, just because it was amazing.

[HereNowhere]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:29pm

I must preface this by saying that I do not like WICKED. However, that said, when I saw Julia Murney on tour, I finally saw why the musical touches so many people. I got teary eyed during "I'm Not That Girl", and almost completely lost it during "For Good". She's just incredible.

Also, every single time I've seen RENT, whether it be on Broadway, on tour or the movie, the spot in the music where the SOL Soloist joins Collins during "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" gets me. What an incredibly beautiful and moving moment.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:31pm

Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity. During "Where Am I Going?" i couldn't help but cry. It was so hard to see this optomisticly sweet woman try and find her happiness.

Victoria Clark in Titanic and LiTP.

Benadette Peters in Gypsy.

[prayerforaduck]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:35pm

I hardly ever cry at the theatre (my sister tells me it's because I have no soul...), but Lisa Brescia singing Still Hurting in Last Five Years made me visibly cry.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:42pm

Thanks for the close attention, Tesse.

Note update re Robert Sherwood.

[Tesse]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:47pm

Thanks, nomdeplume!

I once, during a brain fart, credited "On The Street Where You Live" to Rodgers and Hammerstein. I'm still getting over that foul-up. *sigh*

That made me cry, too, come to think of it.

[Al Dente]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 3:48pm

I'm not a big softie but there have been moments. Jennifer Holiday in Dreamgirls, Lupone in Evita, Headley in Aida, Orfeh in Love, Janis.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:37pm

I fought-back tears during most of MY FAIR LADY, because I thought Julie Andrews was just so phenomenal in it. Her scenes were breathtaking. It was just an easy money bet to predict that she would become a major star. I've never really seen another performance quite like that one. I was also pretty much blown-away by Patty Duke and Suzanne Pleshette, in THE MIRACLE WORKER. Mesmerizing performances from both.

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:47pm

LaChanze performing "I'm Here". I was bawling but trying to hold it in.

Victoria and Kelli in Piazza.

I've cried multiple times during Rent.

[achancetofly]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:29pm

Tappi Tamman Damiano in the LA production of Tick, Tick...BOOM.


When she sang "Come To Your Senses", the entire theatre was just...stunned. I turned into a bawling mess.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:30pm

That was Off Off and Away...

[JamesMacon]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:42pm

Liam Mower in Billy Elliot.

[Producer2]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:46pm

The end of Seussical- Janine LaManna and Kevin Chamberlain

GERTRUDE: "I have wings. Yes I can fly. You teach him earth,
and I will teach him sky.
HORTON: Just call my name.
BOTH: And I'll see you through.
HORTON: One small voice in the universe,
GERTRUDE: One true friend in the universe,
BOTH: Who believes in you."
(Gertrude and Horton kiss)

[nomdeplume]

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

Liam Mower in Billy Elliot?

Now that is across the Pond!

[broadwayxminixidina]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:02pm

Ano Okera as "Angel" in the non-equity cast of "RENT". The topper for me was that he was the sweetest thing when i met him after the show.

Manoel Feliciano as "Tobias", and Michael Cerveris in Sweeney Todd. Their voices make my heart melt. Their ending song is heart-renching.

Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenowith in "Wicked". Who hasn't hear that before? Haha.

Posted: 8/9/06 at 8:27pm

Maureen McGovern in Little Women.
"Days of Plenty" just made me BAWL.

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 9:56pm

The only time I can remember getting teary-eyed were my first time seeing Hugh Panaro do the Final Lair scene of Phantom a few years ago.

[emo_geek]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 9:59pm

Angela Lansbury
and Eden Espinosa- I didn't cry during her performance...but when I met her I realized how much I looked up to her and it all came out hehe.

[mallardo]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:55pm

Philip Seymour Hoffman in the last act of Long Day's Journey in to Night. James Tyrone's great confessional monologue - so often used as an audition piece - was so amazingly delivered by this fabulous actor that it literally took my breath away.

[fiyerosfirstlove]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 1:07am

Lauren Molina in Sweeney Todd. From the minute the curtain went up. She was in character the entire time and I related so deeply with her performance and I can't help but fall apart every time I see her.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 1:28am

The entire cast of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (Bill Irwin in particular) was so amazing in London that I literally could not stop my knees from shaking when I walked out of the theater. It was the only time the sheer force of talent on a stage has brought me to tears.

[Harpo]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 1:49am

Lois Smith in A Trip to Bountiful

Also, two parts in Little Women - Days of Plenty and Some Things Were Meant To Be.

And Les Miz- the entire friggin thing, but especially during Bring Him Home.

[shortshorts]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 9:29am

Daniel Reichard in Radiant Baby.
Amazing.
I cried for him during his first solo in JB. :)

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:49am

Not a specific actor, but the cast of the current Sweeeney Todd revival. I get tears in my eyes when Donna sniffs and they start the opening ballad. To see all of those talented performers playing instruments is amazing.

[Mamie]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 12:02pm

Daniel Davis - twice. First as the broken Oscar Wilde in "The Invention of Love" and the second time in the monologue "A Chip in the Sugar" - a part of the "Talking Heads" production at the Minetta Lane Theatre. All I have to do is think of that one and I start to tear up.