What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?- Page 6

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 9:19pm

never full out crying but misty
marcus paul james in the rent tour (second row center during ICY:R)
the last half hour or so of piazza

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 10:02pm

Hugh Panaro in The Phantom of the Opera
Victoria Clark in The Light in the Piazza
Michael Stuhlbarg in The Pillowman
Katie Clarke in The Light in the Piazza
Cherry Jones in Faith Healer

[musicalsinger20]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 10:09pm

Shoshana Beane or Bean idk and Wicked was also the first musical I have ever seen on Broadway and that was probably part of it also.

Natasha

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 10:13pm

Maria Friedman at her cabaret, both sunday in the park (with dot) and passion sequence. Amazing!

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 10:38pm

Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon and Les Miserables.
Joan Almedilla as Fantine in Les Miserables.
Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Mendzel in Wicked.
Megan Hilty and Shoshana Bean(SP?)in Wicked.
Ivan Rutherford in Les Miserables.
LaChanze in Color Purple.

[balletandbroadway]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 11:16pm

Lea Salonga in Les Mis
Jesse L. Martin in Rent
Kelli O'Hara in LITP

[balletandbroadway]

Posted: 8/20/06 at 11:16pm

Lea Salonga in Les Mis
Jesse L. Martin in Rent
Kelli O'Hara in LITP

[The White Half-Mask]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 5:19pm

Howard McGillin as The Phantom at the end of "The Phantom of the Opera". I bawled my eyes out. Normally, my dignity would've been shredded, but my whole family was crying, too, so I was saved.

[Amneris]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:06pm

Cherry Jones in "Doubt"
Julie Harris in "Scent Of The Roses"
Christine Ebersole in "Steel Magnolias"
Bob Martin in "Drowsy Chaperone"

[wickedfiyeroofoz]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:12pm

idina in defying gravity of course.
I've only seem one performance of Gypsy...and even though it was a community theater performance, I cried when Louise was forced to strip...It was a heartbreaking performance.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:19pm

Harvey Fierstein - in Fiddler and Torch Song
Victoria Clark - Piazza

[Gingersnap2]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:35pm

Hugh Panaro in "Company" last week. I've heard the OBCR and revival recordings, I've heard Hugh sing "Being Alive" in an intimate concert setting. But I wasn't expecting to tear up the way I did on Thursday night.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:52pm

Troy Evans (He's now on ER). Back when I was in college, he played the father in a production of ALL MY SONS. When the suicide happened, I bawled like a baby all the way out of the theatre.

[Horton]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 6:57pm

It was not crying, but the end of Doubt had me in shock, which i think is the crying equivilant of Doubt.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:12pm

Jason Tam in A Chorus Line.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:34pm

George C. Scott as Willy Lowman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN at the Circle in the Square decades ago. Almost everyone in the theatre was crying. It is said that Scott poured so much of his soul into the part that he got drunk every night after the show to wind down.

[alliez92092]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:37pm

Everyone in Bare, mainly Jenna Leigh Green and Michael Arden.
Victoria Clark in Light in the Piazza.
Anyone playing Collins in Rent. I bawl my eyes out no matter what during I'll Cover You (reprise)
And of course, Julia Murney in Wicked.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:40pm

Bernadette Peters in Gypsy
Tammy Blanchard in Gypsy
Idina Menzel in Wicked
Kristin Chenoweth in Wicked
Victoria Clark in The Light in the Piazza

[KChenowethfan]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:43pm

The entire original cast of Piazza (during Love to Me, especially)

Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner singing songs from Side Show (concert)

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:49pm

I'm an old softy, but I don't care:

Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Trilogy
Betty Buckley in Cats
Maryann Plunkett in Agnes of God
James Earl Jones in Fences
Mary Alice in Fences
Cherry Jones in The Heiress AND Doubt
The entire cast of The Lion King
LaChanze in Ragtime
Bob Martin in The Drowsy Chaperone
Victoria Clark in Piazza
Bernadette Peters in Sunday in the Park With George

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:55pm

Tonya Pinkins Caroline or Change
Jason Tam A Chrous Line

[kenc2]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 7:55pm

Ebersole in GG

[ashley0139]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:09pm

I'm not a big crier, but I have become one more and more lately. Let's see...

- Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern in Little Women during Days of Plenty. I know it's Maureen that sings it, but I really feel that Sutton had a lot to do with it. She was just sitting in the corner, heartbroken.
- The only time one song has ever made me cry: last week at Julia Murney's concert when she sang When I First Met Him. It was the most amazing thing. The most moving performance of a single song I've ever seen in my life.
- The Chess Actor's Fund Benefit Concert. At the very end, when Julia is crying and she goes from "Playing games, losing our lives for nothing" and then she and Josh go into the "How can I live now?..." I was in tears. It makes me almost cry just thinking about it.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:18pm

Little Women, Sutton Foster. Enough said.
ALso, I particularly loved Lachanze's story from backstage at TCP, about the woman just standing there, hugging her. I love Lachanze!
The I Love You Song with Celia just made me BAWL. Loudly.
Whenever Angel dies, I cry, and when Mimi almost does.
I'm sure I will be crying at Les Mis.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:18pm

I cried with terror @ cerveris's "epiphany" in sweeney... does that count?