What is the best Stage Performance You Have Ever Seen?- Page 4

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/7/18 at 7:19am

So many but this morning my id-ego-supergo survey says:  Rylance in Boeing Boeing.

[Lot666]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 11:37am

Theatregeek811 said: "Kaley Ann Voorhees in Phantom of the Opera. I'm so thrilled that she's finally going to be the main Christine!"

Me too!

And to answer the thread question, I'd have to say Ben Crawford in Phantom of the Opera. Simply devastating.

[Lot666]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 11:37am

MVintheheartland said: ""Hand to God" --NYC production, Steven Boyer"



 

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 12:07pm

I've been fortunate to see so many great performances in the past few years that I was going through a list in my dead, but honestly, the performance that keeps popping up with this question is clearly Billie Piper in Yerma. I have not seen anything like it before or since. That really was a production and performance for the ages and I don't believe I'll ever see anything close to that. 

[Elegance101]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 12:16pm

I think I have to agree with everyone who has said Billie Piper in Yerma. That might be also one of the best roles ever written for a woman, at least of that age.

[BuddyStarr]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 12:27pm

It's really hard to pick just one:

Jan Maxwell in Follies

Ben Platt in DEH

Laura Benanti in Women on the Verge

Megan Hilty in Noises Off

Ellen Greene in Little Shop

Hugh Jackman in Boy From Oz

Patti LuPone in Sunset Blvd

[akmiller_98]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 12:29pm

Ben Platt: Dear Evan Hansen

Alan Cumming: Cabaret (first run on broadway)

Kevin Cahoon: Hedwig at Jane Street

Mary Louise Parker: Proof

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 1:02pm

Janet McTeer - A Doll's House

[NYCblurb]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 4:17pm

"I will cheat" 

ME TOO BOO

Male Musical / Supporting -- Bobby Lambert / GYPSY 

Male Musical / Leading -- Hugh Jackman / MAN FROM OZ


Female Musical / Supporting -- Heather Headley / THE COLOR PURPLE (revival)


Female Musical / Leading -- Cynthia Erivo / THE COLOR PURPLE (revival)

Female Play -- Lilly Tomlin / SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE

Male Play -- Stephen Spinella / ANGELS IN AMERICA

 

 

[HopeChanged]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 4:34pm

Tracy Letts in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Sheer perfection.

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 5:26pm

Play: Andrew Garfield in Angels in America and Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery

Musical: Michael Luowye in Hamilton and Amber Riley in Dreamgirls

[citylightsny]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 6:22pm

Peter Firth in Equus.

[persephone88]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 7:09pm

Cherry Jones in Doubt - blew me away. I felt like she was channeling the nun who was my 8th grade math teacher. Amazing performance.

Nathan Lane in Angels In America. I loved Andrew Garfield as well, but I was delighted with Nathan Lane's take on his role. He was a tornado.

Ben Platt in Dear Evan Hansen. I have seen some amazing singers in musicals, but he brought the acting chops on top of that incredible voice. First Bway show that I went back to see several times because he was fantastic.

Patina Miller in Pippin. I was unsure how I'd feel about a female Leading Player, but I enjoyed her even more than Ben Vereen.

[52889j]

Posted: 11/8/18 at 7:38pm

I’ll narrow it down to Audra McDonald in 110 in the Shade at Hale Center Theater in Orem, Utah. She and Will Swenson did a two week run of it as a benefit to the theater.

Honorable mentions:

• Andrew Garfield - Angels in America
• Glenda Jackson - Three Tall Women
• Cynthia Erivo - The Color Purple
• Laurie Metcalf - A Doll’s House, Part 2
• Jacob Mann - The Elephant Wrestler
• Elaine May - The Waverly Gallery
• David Oyelowo - Othello
• Ben Platt - Dear Evan Hansen
• Billy Crudup - Harry Clarke

Updated On: 11/14/18 at 07:38 PM

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 1:56pm

This one is easy. Joe Mantello in "The Normal Heart" I still get chills thinking about it. 

[Synecdoche2]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 2:09pm

Georgia Engel — John

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 2:12pm

Lead Male Actor Musical -- Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd

Lead Female Actor Musical -- Audra McDonald as Bess/Bernadette Peters as Dot

Lead Male Actor Play -- Nathan Lane as Roy Cohn

Lead Female Actor Play -- Kathy Bates as Jessie in 'NIGHT MOTHER.

Posted: 11/9/18 at 2:58pm

Actor in a play: Denis O'Hare as Mason Marzac in Take Me Out

Actress in a play: Amy Morton as Barbara Weston-Fordham in August: Osage County

Actor in a Musical: Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Kutti in Fela!

Actress in a Musical: Sutton Foster as Millie McDermont in Thoroughly Modern Millie

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 3:06pm

Alice Ripley in Next to Normal

[HumanHeart]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 3:40pm

1) I saw Ephie Aardema (she was the understudy Jerusha) in Daddy Long Legs off-Broadway and she was absolutely magical in the role. I saw it again with Megan McGinnis, the principal, and it didn't feel the same. I still adore Megan, though. 

2) Lianah Sta. Ana as Kim in the new Miss Saigon revival. She played the character so well emotionally. Her voice also reminded me a lot of Lea Salonga's, but, she still held her own. She was fierce and very much in character. I didn't feel like I was watching an actress play Kim at all, I just felt like she was the embodiment of Kim. 

3) Marin Mazzie as Anna in "The King and I". She was so spectacular. She played a very emotionally driven Anna, and, I am so blessed that I got to see her in that role.

[ABitOnTheSide]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 4:10pm

Carolee Carmello in PARADE

Patti LuPone in MASTER CLASS

Hugh Jackman in THE BOY FROM OZ

Betty Buckley in SUNSET BOULEVARD

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 7:33pm

I know I recently posted Rylance in Boeing Boeing but I'm inclined to agree with those who have said Billie PIper in YERMA.  

I have actually felt sorry for friends who missed it.

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 8:05pm

Heather Headley in Aida
Patti LuPone in Sweeney Todd
Ellen Greene in City Centers Little Shop of Horrors
Michelle Williams in Blackbird

Nancy Opel in Toxic Avenger 
Raul Esparza in Company
Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway
Mercedes Ruehl in The Goat

(I might get a kick) but I was destroyed by Sally Field in The Glass Menagerie

Updated On: 11/9/18 at 08:05 PM

[wonkit]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 8:26pm

Fascinating and impossible question. The minute I think of an answer, I think of ten others.  But probably Len Cariou in SWEENEY TODD. Especially his singing of "Pretty Women." And because it is Sondheim.

Next ten thousand tie for second place but I loved Peter O'Toole in PYGMALION (the only time I saw him onstage) And Raul Esparza in THE HOMECOMING. And Ian Richardson in MY FAIR LADY.

On the distaff side I have never seen anything to match Laurie Metcalf as Mary Tyrone. 

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 11/9/18 at 8:46pm

Frank Langella. I've seen him in everything he's done since FROST/NIXON in 2007. That performance was sensational, but along with that? I was moved to tears about a decade later when he did THE FATHER. A brilliant performer.