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What actor/actress was so good that they made you cry?

Posted: 8/15/06 at 8:58am

Ok, so i've pinched this from the Broadway board but is quite a good topic to bring up.

For me personally, Scarlett Strallen made me cry in Mary Poppins and even when thinking about it, i could be reduced to tears!!! Also, even though i havent seen Wicked on stage yet, watching Idina Menzel sing For Good in Wicked with Kristin Chenoweth made me fill up! God knows what i am going to be like in Idina's presence, haha!

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 9:24am

Scarlett Strallen and Linzi Hately in Mary Poppins, Lucy Harris in Mamma Mia, Kerry Ellis and Jenna Lee James in We Will Rock You, Annalene Beechey in Beauty and the Beast

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 10:23am

Victoria Clarke - Light in the Piazza
Jenna Russell - Sunday in the Park with George

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

Jenna Russell & Daniel Evans - Sunday in the Park with George
Steven Webb - The History Boys

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 11:14am

Elena Roger in evita singing dont cry for me argentina, and the whole cast at the Requiem For Evita
also the whole cast of lion king singing the Circle of life!

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 2:55pm

The actress who played Julie in Hal Prince's revival of SHOW BOAT in London in 1997. Her performance of the song "Bill" got me in tears. And it still is the only time I've seen the audience give an actor a standing ovation DURING THE SHOW!!

Also Peter Karrie as The Phantom in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, UK-tour in 2000. He was so amazing that in the final scene I was crying my eyes out.

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:19pm

my vote goes again to "Mary Poppins" Scarlet Strallen

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 3:50pm

Linzi Hately in Mary Poppins

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 4:25pm

MARY POPPINS FEST OR WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted: 8/15/06 at 5:34pm

Scarlett Strallen was fantastic as Mary Poppins, but I always want to cry during every show because I find it hard to believe I'm actually watching something so amazing done by such wonderful people!
Yes, I know it sounds stupid.

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Posted: 8/16/06 at 7:31am

It doesnt sound stupid at all dramaparoxysm23, most of the time i feel exactly the same. We'll have to see whether Mary Poppins will still be getting such an outstanding response when the cast change kicks in and Scarlett leaves

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

I have become teary during Mary Poppins...tears of sentiment. The film was a childhood favorite, and certain songs just get me -- right there.

As for my answer to the question -- John Owen Jones. Both as the Phantom (saw his final performance, and his lair scene had me in tears) and as Valjean. Oh, and I got a bit weepy at the end of his performance in ShowBoat as well...

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Posted: 8/16/06 at 12:35pm

John Owen Jones - Phantom
Linzi - I'm just happy to see her onstage!
Ruthie - her too... esp in Les Mis
The Billys - they're just fxxking amazing!
Jenna Russell - Sunday... but it's mostly of her character

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Posted: 8/16/06 at 1:18pm

Ok, so I just got back from London 2 days ago. We saw Blood Brothers and The Producers.

The Producers was what I expected.

But!

Blood Brothers was not. The only thing I'll say about the music was that it was a cross between Legends of the Hidden Temple the musical and a bad Andrew Lloyd Webber filled Nightmere with a sprinkle of CATS! in techno remix.

The acting though, simply incredible. Antony Costa...DAMN SON. He was amazing. He made me cry full force. And the girl who played Linda, I'm blanking on her name. But she was great as well.

Sutton Foster makes me cry in everything she does. She could just walk on stage and I'd start crying. But when I saw Little Women I was in hysterics.

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Posted: 8/16/06 at 1:52pm

Kerry Ellis - Fantine in Les mis!!

Cant wait till shes Elphaba! Just hope shes as good as Idina!lol

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Posted: 8/19/06 at 11:41pm

Not a musical, but Victoria Hamilton in the 1994 production of "Suddenly Last Summer".

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Posted: 8/20/06 at 4:48pm

John Owen Jones in Phantom amd Les Mis, Richard Munday in Blood Brothers, Kerry Ellis, Jenna Russell, the Kim in the touring Miss Saigon.

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Posted: 8/21/06 at 3:56am

Glyn Kerslake as John in 'The Hired Man' at the Salisbury Playhouse was amazing.

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Posted: 8/21/06 at 5:20am

MARY POPPINS makes me cry every time..I just dont want her to go away!! But the ultimate tear jerker for me has to be Blood Brothers...in the second act when Linda and Mickey argue about "the pills" always gets me going!! and I have to say the best Mrs J I have seen is Lyn Paul!!

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Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:12am

Josie Walker-The Beautiful Game

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Posted: 8/22/06 at 2:57pm

yah i gotta agree Lucy Harris in Mamma mia, Shoshana Bean and Megan Hilty in Wicked can make me cry
And Hugh Jackman singing I still Call Australia home...those 4 actors/actresses get me so easily

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Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:57am

John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys...very, very emotional in one particular scene.

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Posted: 8/24/06 at 7:29am

Lee Evans in the Producers - with laughter!!

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Posted: 8/24/06 at 7:32am

The whole cast during 'Circle of Life' - the openeing is so amazing.

And (I'll probably get booed off the boared for this but....) Jon Lee as Marius. I saw him in it a few years ago and it's the first time I cried at 'Empty Chairs'. I thought he was great and far better than expected.

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Posted: 8/25/06 at 5:35pm

Claire - I know what you mean about Circle of Life! It's just...so incredibly breathtaking. (I literally had to remind myself to inhale.)

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