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

[keatonbynumbers]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#100

Posted: 8/10/06 at 12:18pm

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.

[DramaQueen700]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#101

Posted: 8/10/06 at 1:01pm

i cant believe i forgot to mention brian stokes mitchell in man of la mancha. when i saw his performance on the tonys, i was bawling from the beginning. i usually think th e impossible dream is such a boring standard song, but he gave a whole new outlook, and when he got a standing ovation after, i bawled even more. ive never seen a tony audience do that before!!! brilliant.

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[Firefly]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#102

Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:47pm

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).

[NathanLaneStalker]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#103

Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:21pm

Harvey Fierstein - Fiddler (kinda hard to explain)

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[Unmasked05]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#104

Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:16am

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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[snl89]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#105

Posted: 8/11/06 at 12:22am

Idina- Wicked
not even kidding :)

Jesse L Martin - RENT
oy. he leaves me a COMPLETE emotional wreck

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[VonTussleGirl]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#106

Posted: 8/15/06 at 1:02am

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."

[anotherhundredpeople]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#107

Posted: 8/15/06 at 4:18am

Patti LuPone in Gypsy...not on Broadway at all but it should be!!

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[livelife]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#108

Posted: 8/15/06 at 7:39am

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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[Dollypop]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#109

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:27am

I now have to add Patti LuPone in GYPSY. It was an incredibly emotional experience for me and the best birthday celebration I could have ever asked for--even though it was a few days early!

Viva LuPone!

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[dancinfan]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#110

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:32am

Dame Judi Dench

[Christoph]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#111

Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:34am

Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz
Tyne Daly in Gypsy
Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly
Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd
Craig Bierko in The Music Man
Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room Updated On: 8/15/06 at 09:34 AM

[Mattbrain]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#112

Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:07am

John Lloyd Young in Jersey Boys.

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[raulfan]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#113

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:01am

Raul Esparza in THE NORMAL HEART.....brilliant.

[Duckie93]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#114

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:04am

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

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[SeptemberKel]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#115

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:05am

I have to add Patti LuPone in Gypsy as well. That was the hardest I've ever cried.

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[almostxfamous]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#116

Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:10am

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

[Theatreboy49]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#117

Posted: 8/15/06 at 12:29pm

Patti Lupone in Gypsy

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
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[obsessedjb]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#118

Posted: 8/20/06 at 4:52pm

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

[Horton]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#119

Posted: 8/20/06 at 5:04pm

The entire cast of Piazza (except for Katie Clarke)

[flicker_]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#120

Posted: 8/20/06 at 6:10pm

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

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

[americanboy99]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#121

Posted: 8/20/06 at 8:53pm

I cried when Kelli O'Hara sang "Light in the Piazza", during "Love to Me", and during the bows.

I also cried when Stephanie J. Block was lifted up during "Defying Gravity" on the national tour.

[SweetQintheLights]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#122

Posted: 8/20/06 at 8:54pm

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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[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#123

Posted: 8/20/06 at 8:55pm

Sam Barnett and Desmond Baritt double-teamed to make me tear-up

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[theaterkid1015]

re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?#124

Posted: 8/20/06 at 9:08pm

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