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What is the best show you have ever seen
What is the best show you have ever seen #25
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)
What is the best show you have ever seen #26
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)
What is the best show you have ever seen #27
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.
What is the best show you have ever seen #28
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.
Swing Joined: 6/19/18
What is the best show you have ever seen #29
Posted: 8/7/18 at 3:10pm
King and I (LCT 2015) and Hello, Dolly! (Bernadette)
What is the best show you have ever seen #30
Posted: 8/7/18 at 3:41pmIt’s hard to pick one but the first thing that came to mind is the original cast production of Ragtime.
Swing Joined: 3/13/18
What is the best show you have ever seen #31
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).
What is the best show you have ever seen #32
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)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
What is the best show you have ever seen #33
Posted: 8/7/18 at 5:00pmHmmm...let me think
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/17
What is the best show you have ever seen #34
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.
Stand-by Joined: 12/30/14
What is the best show you have ever seen #35
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
What is the best show you have ever seen #36
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
What is the best show you have ever seen #37
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.
What is the best show you have ever seen #38
Posted: 8/7/18 at 9:04pm
The original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls".
What is the best show you have ever seen #39
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)
What is the best show you have ever seen #40
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"
What is the best show you have ever seen #41
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.
What is the best show you have ever seen #42
Posted: 8/7/18 at 10:26pmThe 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.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
What is the best show you have ever seen #43
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
What is the best show you have ever seen #45
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.
What is the best show you have ever seen #46
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.
What is the best show you have ever seen #48
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...
What is the best show you have ever seen #49
Posted: 8/8/18 at 12:18pm
Phantom of the Opera
"Michael Riedel...The Perez Hilton of the New York Theatre scene"
- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
What is the best show you have ever seen #50
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.
What is the best show you have ever seen #51
Posted: 8/8/18 at 3:55pm
"Gypsy" with Tyne Daly (1991).
A close second: "Hello Dolly" with Bernadette Peters.
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