What is the best show you have ever seen - Page 2

[LYLS3637]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 1:16pm

FALSETTOS (revival)

PARADE (Manhattan Concert Productions)

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (Encores Off Center)

NEXT TO NORMAL 

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (revival with John Cameron Mitchell)

 

[Demitri2]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 2:03pm

HIGH SPIRITS (all time favorite)

MAME (saw Lansbury in the show three times. She was amazing).

FUNNY GIRL

GYPSY (with Ann Sothern)

THE APPLE TREE (twice with Barbara Harris/matinee with Phyllis Newman) 

KING OF HEARTS

WILD PARTY (LaChiusa)

NEXT TO NORMAL

THE MUSIC MAN (original cast. My first Brdwy show).

PARADE (original cast)

SIDE SHOW (original cast and revival)

 

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 2:08pm

So many great theatrical experiences, but there's one that I keep wishing I could relive - the Comet at Kazino in 2014.

As for the others:

Ragtime revival

Hair revival in April 2009

Once

August: Osage County with Johanna Day as Barbara

Next to Normal in May 2009

I saw some of these multiple times, but there was only ever one performance of each when I felt that incredible lightning-in-a-bottle moment.

 

[Dave13]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 2:09pm

Best New Musical: Hamilton

Best Revival: King and I, and Color Purple. 

Best Individual performance. Ben Platt in DEH. Cynthia Erivo in Color Purple. John Owen-Jones in Les Mis. 

[HarmoniaGardens]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 3:10pm

King and I (LCT 2015) and Hello, Dolly! (Bernadette)

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 3:41pm

It’s hard to pick one but the first thing that came to mind is the original cast production of Ragtime.

[viewsfromthestages]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 3:56pm

Recent Musicals: Hamilton at the Public (2015), The Band's Visit (2017) and Come From Away (2017).

Musical Revivals: Hello Dolly! (Bernadette Peters), The King and I (2015), Sunday in the Park with George (2017), Sunset Boulevard (2017).

Play Revivals: Three Tall Woman (201, Angels in America (201, The Iceman Cometh (201, and The Boys in the Band (201.

Plays: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (201. 

Edit to include Wicked (2005) and The Phantom of the Opera (2011).

Updated On: 8/7/18 at 03:56 PM

[Impossible2]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 4:20pm

Musicals

The Great Comet - The Band's Visit

Plays

Yerma - The Father - The Humans - Amy & the Orphans - Angels in America - Streetcar Named Desire (St Anns) - The Crucible/A View from the Bridge (Ivo) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Imelda)

Updated On: 8/7/18 at 04:20 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 5:00pm

Hmmm...let me think

[Cat Guy]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 7:08pm

"Promises, Promises," London, 1969.  It holds a special place in my affections because it was the musical that introduced me to the incomparable Betty Buckley.  In 2019, when I see Betty's "Dolly" (which, I am confident, will be my favorite interpretation), half a century will have passed.  Much has happened in those 50 years, but my appreciation for the talent that is Miss Buckley has never wavered.  Thank  You !!,   Betty Buckley.

 

 

[persephone88]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 8:54pm

Play: Doubt with Cherry Jones

Play Revival: Angels In America 2018

Musical: Dear Evan Hansen

Musical Revival: tie between Pippin and Roundabout's Cabaret

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 8:58pm

Right now, the best musical I've ever seen is The Band's Visit. Best Play is Eurydice.

Updated On: 7/22/19 at 08:58 PM

[JudyDenmark]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 8:59pm

Brutal to choose... it could be the closing night of [title of show], which was an absolute celebration... or Sara Bareilles' (first) final performance of Waitress, because her musicality floors me... or the Deaf West Spring Awakening which was gorgeous and so meaningful... or this recent Angels in America, which proved to me how much I can love a play... or my first Broadway show ever which was Les Mis when I was 8 and totally hooked me... 

But I will go with this current Once On This Island. I have worshipped (and analyzed to death) that score since I saw the original when I was 11, and had it on such a pedestal in my mind. Walking into this production, which I first saw on the last night of previews, I was trying to not get my hopes up because I didn't think there was any chance it could live up to what I had in my head. And it was everything I didn't even know I wanted. I was flat-out weeping by the end, which is embarrassing in the first row of that theatre, haha. I just love what they did with what was already such a beautiful show. 

Updated On: 8/7/18 at 08:59 PM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 9:04pm

The original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls".

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 9:17pm

Musical:

Original Broadway production of SWEENY TODD

Play:

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY at the Denver Center Theatre Company's Stage Theater. (Michael Wartella led an outstanding cast)

[BobPopa]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 9:42pm

Mister Matt said: "Musical: The original Broadway production of Les Miserables (before all the cuts)

Play: The 1994 revival of An Inspector Calls (which is coming to Chicago in 2019!)"

It funny in one post you have my favorite production I have ever seen on Broadway (or anywhere) the Original Les Mierables...perfection, simple beautiful, emotional perfection.

AND 

My least favorite production I have ever seen on Broadway..The Inspector Calls..Really just dreadful beyond the pale. (I've I have seen some doozy's like "What's Wrong With This Picture"

 

 

[dianamorales]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 9:46pm

The current Once On This Island revival. I don't see shows more than once- I rarely get to the city so I try to see as many different shows as possible while I'm there- but as I left the theater I bought tickets to see it again 2 days later. And i'd see it again if I could. The only other show I was willing to see again was Miss Saigon.

[scripps]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 10:26pm

The South Pacific revival. I saw it once a week after it opened from a front row center orchestra seat. It was such a perfect moment in time that I felt a repeated viewing would spoil the memory.

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 8/7/18 at 10:50pm

It’s still Caroline, or Change, the OBC for me, followed by:

Scottsboro Boys (OBC in L.A.)
Angels in America 2018
Chicago OBC (not the revival)
Passing Strange
Pippin revival

[JayElle]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 12:04am

Great Comet, Hamilton (orig cast), Boys in the Band, Come From Away, Angels/America

Saw all multiple times.  Listed in order of what I saw the most to the least.  Angels only because of my time constraints or I would've seen it more.

Many didn't care for Comet, but I sat on the stage for nearly all the times I went and it had such a different, interactive perspective that made it great fun to be there, despite its faults with audio and the  fiasco re: actors. Heard it was heading to London with its NYC staging. I'd do it.

[Olivia11]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 1:13am

OBC of Les Miz; Hamilton; recent revival of The Color Purple with Cynthia Erivo; and CATS....yes, CATS...sorry, not sorry.  It was my first experience and hooked me.  Without it, I may not have this wonderful thing called theater in my life. 

But the best show I have ever seen, was a very small production of Bent in L.A. circa 1986ish.  

Updated On: 8/8/18 at 01:13 AM

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 9:03am

the Best Musical i have ever seen was the OBC of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC...from the first note to the last i have always stated this is the most complete Sondheim score, and the most perfect of stage productions...

my Best Play selections are more limited but the OBC of NOISES OFF had me literally rolling on the theatre floor with laughter...

[Lot666]

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

Phantom of the Opera

[ABitOnTheSide]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 2:12pm

Pacific Overtures at the Kennedy Center during their Sondheim celebration. I don't really know what possessed me to see it, but something made me travel hundreds of miles to see it. I'd always really loved the music and I couldn't resist seeing it in Japanese. I've never felt so elevated in the theater in my life. I also never realized how damned GOOD the book of Pacific Overtures is.

[David10086]

Posted: 8/8/18 at 3:55pm

"Gypsy" with Tyne Daly (1991).

A close second: "Hello Dolly" with Bernadette Peters.