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#76

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
"The Light in the Piazza....My Love"
#77

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
#78

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.

#79

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
I thought I knew but now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City
#81

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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. re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
"I hate musicals... People don't sing in real life."
"Well, maybe they should."
--Kiss of the Spider Woman (cut line)
#82

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
#83

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
#84

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
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#85

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
"Cages or wings, which do you prefer?"-- Tick, Tick...BOOM!
#88

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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)
#90

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
"Broadway is a very special place, filled with very special people, people who can sing and dance, often at the same time! They are a different people, a multi-talented people, a people...who need people...and who are, in many ways, the luckiest people in...the world." --Spamalot
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#92

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
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#93

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#94

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#95

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
"Well, there has been much rumor and speculation... innuendo, outuendo..."
#96

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#97

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
#99

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
#100

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?

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.
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