What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry? — Page 5

There are so many examples, but what comes to mind immediately is Carolee Carmello in PARADE.

By the third time I saw Parade, I was doing this thing where I was watching the entire show with tears in my eyes. It was kind of weird, I feel bad for the people around me who might've been wondering why I was so emotional (like, seriously, is there any reason to be tearing up during "The Picture Show?" I guess I was just so HAPPY to be seeing it again). Anyway, during "All the Wasted Time", I just lost it. I suppose some of this is Brent Carver's fault, too, but I think most of it was Carolee and the song and... it was kind of embarrassing, because it was sort of LOUD crying and I was trying to tone it down and... ack. CAROLEE.

And then I tried to play it cool at the stagedoor and be all, "Oh, hello Carolee, you were really very good tonight!" but instead I just CRIED and, ugh, what a mess I was in 1998.

Admittedly, it doesn't take much - I can get emotional just from the lights going down and the overture starting sometimes - but as far as a specific performance making me cry...two come to mind. Betty Buckley singing Memory in Cats for the sheer power and emotion she put into it. Marsha Waterbury in Little Shop of Horrors for making me care so much about Audrey that her death brought me to tears (I didn't have as strong a reaction to others playing the same role).

Randal Keith..Les Mis

Gary Maur..The Phantom of The Opera

Paulette Ivory...AIDA, she was AMAZING

Eric Brown..The Normal Heart

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Sarah Saltzberg as Logainne in Spelling Bee. When she's eliminated on "vug" and shows her vulnerability, I get emotional.

This was one of the only times I've ever really gotten emotional during a show.

The other was Kim Crosby in Into the Woods. I teared up a little during "No One Is Alone."

Phantom of the opera:
Howard McGillin- Final Lair scene
Sandra Joseph- Wishing You Were Somehow Here Agai

Billy Elliot:
Colin Bates- The Letter

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Dame Judi Dench

John Lloyd Young in Jersey Boys.

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The only musical and the only actor wh omade me cry was John Lloyd Young durning fallin angel

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John Lloyd Young in Jersey Boys. The vulnerability he displayed in the 'Fallen Angel' scene alone was enough to bring me to tears.

JLY in Jersey Boys. Especially during the Fallen Angel scene.

Randal Keith and the kid who played Gavroche. Oooh, they were so good.

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I don't think it's the PERSON who makes me cry. It's either the character they play (I feel for them), or the show...

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Well, not the sobbing kind of tears, but Chita Rivera moved me so much in her one-woman show it was crazy. Absolutely amazing.

And, on a side note, I'm extremely jealous of the people who got to see Patti do Mama Rose. I don't even like her that much, but in that role, I can only imagine how much she shines.

OH, and Jennifer Holliday in "Dreamgirls."

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Updated On: 8/20/06 at 09:08 PM