What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?- Page 8
What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Racetrack
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#175re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 3:39pmHugh Panaro in Company when he sang Being Alive. I think I was the only one around me crying. Lol.
"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear
AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#176re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 3:42pm
Jason Tam in A Chorus Line.
I also cried during "One", because I have always wanted to see that, and, I don't know, it just made me cry. Maybe cause I was so happy?
The Best of Times is Now!
#177re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 3:52pmBernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin sang We Do Not Belong Together in Sunday in the Park with George. I watched the DVD actually and tears just running out.
Somebody sit in my chair, and ruin my sleep, and make me aware of being alive!
newyorkrbust
Stand-by Joined: 6/23/06
#178re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 3:54pmJustin Johnston as Angel....*and of couse Wilson Heredia...the OBC Angel*
It really said US Navy, but hey, I worked with what they gave me ok.
#179re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 10:06pm
Hugh Panaro in Company when he sang Being Alive. I think I was the only one around me crying. Lol.
You're not the only one, Racetrack. I'd heard him sing it in a cabaret back in September and it was touching. But when he sang it in Seattle, I was sitting there in the second row thinking, "Not gonna cry...not gonna cry." And I lost that battle. And got a cute apology after.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#180re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 10:35pm
Howard McGillin in The Phantom of the Opera. (that's off the top of my head). Yes, I cried during 'Music of the Night' because that is the kind of loser I am.
Who else...
Alan Alda in Glengarry Glenross, mainly because his character was so pathetic.
Jon Peterson in Cabaret, his rendition of "I Don't Care Much" is heart breaking.
That's all I got for now. I don't remember if any other actor has made me cry other than those three.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#181re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 10:45pm
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIKE IDINA MENZEL WHEN SHE WAS LIKE "AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" AT THE END OF DeFyInG gRaViTy!!! omg!!
I LOVE heR!!!!!!
#182re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 10:57pmOh! That's sacastic tears. haha!
Somebody sit in my chair, and ruin my sleep, and make me aware of being alive!
Tom-497
Featured Actor Joined: 12/18/05
#183re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/12/06 at 11:29pm
The three that come to my mind are:
Byron Jennings and Gabriel Byrne during their toast at the end of Act One in A Touch of the Poet.
And Brian Dennehy as Willy Lowman in Los Angeles, especially when he said (to paraphrase), "Isn't that something ... my son loves me."
#184re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/13/06 at 7:31amBoth Judi Dench and Patricia Hodge in A Little Night Music. Walking the line between heartbreaking and hilarious at all the right moments.
#185re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/13/06 at 7:53amBernadette both times I saw Gypsy.
BreeDaniel
Broadway Star Joined: 1/25/04
#186re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/13/06 at 10:36amSo many have already been mentioned. Holliday, Lupone, Sherie Scott, Orfeh, H. Headley, Stokes Mitchell. More recently, I found myself seriously fighting back the urge during Jacques Brel while Natascia Diaz was singing. I was (pleasantly) surprised by that.
ILUVTOMG
Stand-by Joined: 8/8/06
#187re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/13/06 at 11:00ambrenda blethyn in NIGHT MOTHER... i didn't think it was a great production but she had me (and everyone around me) in tears at least 3 times during the performance
#188re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/13/06 at 11:00am
I cried because of performances by:
JLY in Jersey Boys
Jason Tam in ACL
Raul Esparza in Taboo
The first time I saw Rent
Updated On: 11/13/06 at 11:00 AM
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#189re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/13/06 at 11:10amFarrah in BOBBI BOLAND.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
luvtheatre11
Understudy Joined: 1/3/06
#190re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/13/06 at 11:30amEbersole in Grey Gardens..I couldn't talk for a solid half hour after leaving the theatre..amazing performance.
AnythingCanHappen
Featured Actor Joined: 11/5/06
#191re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 1:53am
Spelling Bee was my 2nd Broadway show, and during 'The I Love You Song' (which I had already heard from the recording) I lost it. I remember Celia and Lisa each looking down at me (I won lotto and was right in front of the microphone) and they both just looked soooo sad. I can't listen to that song without just bawling my eyes out.
And, althought I mist up whenever a show starts, when the curtain opens, or the lights go up... (the magic of theatre has completely eaten up my soul) I absolutely love it.
Also, in Mary Poppins (4th Broadway show for me) during Anything Can Happen when Ashley Brown sings "If you reach for the stars..." and the lights go over the audience, I lost it again. Plus, the Bird Lady in Feed the Birds, just the whole scene was so touching.
At the end of At The Ballet (A Chorus Line, my 3rd Broadway show) was a pretty good tearjerker. Just the entire sequence leading up the final notes was fabulous..
And although I never saw it, Sherie Rene Scott singing "I Know the Truth" from Aida is astoundingly beautiful. The pain in her voice gets me every time.
"Don't worry, it should never be seen. It's comparable to Britney's hoo-ha." - being.jeremiah in response to the High School Musical 2 logo
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Updated On: 11/14/06 at 01:53 AM
DramaLady2010
Understudy Joined: 8/28/06
#192re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 2:04am
dude, Ashley Brown made me come SO close to tears in Mary Poppins haha Mary f*cking Poppins.
and this isn't broadway, but I generally cry in anything Kate Winslet does....she's so amazing.
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#193re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 2:23amLaChanze during "I'm Here" in The Color Purple.
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#194re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 2:23amLaChanze during "I'm Here" in The Color Purple.
#195re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 9:30am
"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."
Yes. ME TOO!!
(formerly bronte604)
"You really just love money and power and capitalism? You know they're never going to love you back."
"Things happen for the best...I don't even believe that myself."
#196re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 5:41pmI cry easily, but the most I've ever cried during a show was when I saw Patti LuPone in Gypsy, more specifically during her Rose's Turn. I still tear up when I talk about it.
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
#197re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 5:48pmAfter Mara Davi's third "at the ballet----------" in A Chorus Line.
stonewall2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/12/04
#198re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/14/06 at 6:02pmJulie Harris in anything.......
"I'm mad, you're mad. we're all mad"...
The Cheshire Cat
somebear
Chorus Member Joined: 8/16/06
#199re: What Actor Was So Good They Made You Cry?
Posted: 11/16/06 at 12:37amRaul, Being Alive in Company last Friday night. I have never cried like that in a show before. It was coming out faster than I could discreetly wipe it away. My shirt had tear marks on it. Something about that song, and his performance. I hope it doesn't get a bad review.
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