What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?- Page 7

[snl89]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:38pm

Raul Esparza- Tick Tick Boom. HOLY. COW.

Norbert AND Sherie both in Last 5 Years. enough said.

Sutton Foster and Megan McGinnis (sp?) in Little Women, particularly Some Things are Meant to Be

I believe I said it a few pages back, but I shall say it again- Idina in Wicked

Micheal Ball singing Empty Chairs and Empty Tables on the Les Mis 10th anniversary recording. Oh my god it gives me such chills and teary eyes.

[Isabella2]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:59pm

i've cried to every single show i've seen.

... the list is not long.

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 9:05pm

I cry easily. But most recently, Grey Gardens. Christine Ebersole. Oh boy.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 9:11pm

Mark Richard Ford's I'll Cover You Reprise in RENT. It is the best ICYR ever.

[GClef2]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 9:13pm

Carolee Carmello--Her Winner Takes it all Moves me to tears.

Audra in Ragtime---perfectly acted.

[bigbigbill]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:21pm

Bob Martin at the end of The Drowsy Chaperone.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:22pm

Tonya Pinkins

"Lot's Wife"


OH.

[Benzy92]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:23pm

most recently, Jason Tam in "A Chorus Line"


a performance of a lifetime!

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 10:28pm

Sherie Rene Scott made me cry when I saw her for my first time after she returned.

That was for more of an emotional reason I guess...

I don't really think any person has made me cry for being just "that good", there's always some tie to the song, plot, etc.

[RevolutionaryCostume]

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

Yeah, I'm going to hell for this. .

I get totally misty-eyed at Kristy Cates' Elphaba. There's something about the way she twists her face when everyone's laughing at her hat. . I dunno, it strikes a nerve I guess.

[Pinky]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:03pm

Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon.

I laughed so hard I cried the first time I saw DRS.

[JarNerdAV]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:25pm

Wow this thread has lasted a long time. I think I first posted four months ago. I'll just cry when it finally dies. Anyway, once again Leslie Jordan and Dale Dickey made me cry when I saw the recent LA revival of Southern Baptist Sissies. Now I don't see Grey Gardens until Saturday, but I cry when I listen to the off-Broadway recording and hear Christine sing Around the World and Another Winter in a Ummer Town. I'm gonna be a real mess on Saturday.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 10/30/06 at 11:25pm

I think it's an interesting distinction between when an actor made you cry because of the character/ situation VS. when an actor made you cry because regardless of what was going on in the show, they were just so SO GOOD

Hunter Foster in Urinetown definitely falls into the second category for me. He was just so good that I cried through the whole show.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 1:17am

Felicia P Fields- Hell, No.
Jay Johnson- The Squeaky number when he did not make the cut in Soap. (I love The Two and Only)
When Harvey was replaced by John Travolta in the Hairspray film.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 2:08am

"When Harvey was replaced by John Travolta in the Hairspray film."

Same here.

[hauntedcoffeepot]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 8:44am

La Chanze, Color Purple.

Such a powerful show, that by the last song (cast song) I couldn't contain my tears. I wasn't the only one, and the cast was giving us all sympathetic knowing looks. Very nice memory.

[jwsel]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:54am

Lonette McKee in Showboat.
Brian Stokes Mitchell in Ragtime.
Tonya Pinkins in Caroline or Change.
Imagen Stubbs in Othello (RSC). She played Desdemona and, as she is singing to Emilia right before she is killed, it was wrenching. (This was a 1989 RSC production that was perfectly acted top to bottom.)
Lea Salonga in Miss Saigon.
Just about every actor in the original production of Angels in America.
I don't remember who I saw in the LA tour of A Chorus Line, but the actor playing Paul killed me during his monologue.

[Ciaron McCarthy]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 9:59am

Patti Lupone in Les Mis. I was young. I didnt want the mommy to die.

[Jane2]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:07am

Raul-Perified-Taboo.

[RentHead2]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 11:48am

I have a couple:

Actresses
Lisa Howard - Spelling Bee, the I Love You Song.
Idina Menzel - Wicked, For Good/No Dood Deed/Defying Gravity
Sherie Scott - The Last 5 Years, Just about every song she sang

Actors
Norbert Leo Butz - Last 5 Years

[qwerty2]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 12:15pm

Susan Spencer - Little Women Nat. Tour. I bawled when she was singing about Beth.

Lauren Worsham & Sarah Stiles - Didn't bawl, but it was SO sad. Lauren cries during/after the ILY song.

[theleadingplyr]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 12:32pm

Paulette Ivory in AIDA, in about everything she sang, I can't explain it but she sang with such passion it was like nothing I have ever seen live.

also Alice Ripley in Little Shop during "Somewhere That's Green"
I wish I could have seen her in SideShow!!

[Lorelai]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 3:59pm

Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
Sherie Rene Scott in The Last 5 Years
Celia Keenan-Bolger (The I Love You Song) in Spelling Bee
Hunter Foster in Urinetown

Posted: 10/31/06 at 4:48pm

My pick would be Richard Thomas. But it wasn't in one of his Broadway performances, it was one of his made for t.v. movies; 'Wild Hearts'.

[lucydee]

Posted: 10/31/06 at 6:33pm

Most recently, just last Friday, Alex Gemignani as ValJean in
Les Mis. I was sobbing, I could not stop towards the end and during "Bring him home"