What's on your best/worst of 2009 list?- Page 2

[MusicSnob1]

Posted: 12/13/09 at 11:14pm

"(I don't know how I sat through her performance 3 times, but I survived.)"

Who cares about the How? I want to know WHY you did that!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 2:21pm

Best: Next to Normal

Worst: Desire Under the Elms

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 2:36pm

The best this year was Billy Elliot, with Ragtime running a close second. The worst was a toss between Guys and Dolls and American Buffalo.

edit: Make that G&D. I just realized I saw Buffalo at the end of '08.

Updated On: 12/14/09 at 02:36 PM

[once a month]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 3:38pm

My Favorites in 2009:

Musicals:
Next to Normal
Hair
A Little Night Music

Plays:
Exit the King
Speed the Plow
The Royal Family

Benefits/Concerts:
Music in the Air
Legends
Finnian's Rainbow

Least Favorites Musicals:
Happiness
9 to 5
Story of My Life

Least Favorite Plays:
God of Carnage
Garden of Earthly Delights
The Third Story

Billy Elliott and Equus were 2008 for me.

Updated On: 12/14/09 at 03:38 PM

[jagfkb]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 6:08pm

Best:
Billy Elliot
Shrek
The Norman Conquests
Next to Normal
Hair
Ragtime
A Little Night Music
I don't really have a worst list, as no production was really THAT terrible (though I never actually saw Guys and Dolls...) but Gina Gershen would probably be on it...

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 6:27pm

" "(I don't know how I sat through her performance 3 times, but I survived.)"

Who cares about the How? I want to know WHY you did that! "

I saw The Little Mermaid 7 times in its run. First preview, twice last year, and 4 times this year.

I saw the show for my birthday with my friends, Sierra Boggess's last performance, and final performance of the show. That's how I got to 3 times with her in it.

[Eleah]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 8:32pm

Best
Norman Conquests
Ragtime
Next to Normal
(would say tos but that was 200

Worst
Girl Crazy (although Marc Kudisch was good...but the show not so much)
White Christmas
Toxic Avenger
Hamlet
Blithe Spirit
Guys and Dolls
Mamets 2 Plays at Atc (and my tix were free and I should be supportive of my company...but that was terrible)

[HometownGlory]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 9:17pm

Best:
After Miss Julie
Blithe Spirit
A Little Night Music
Finian's Rainbow
West Side Story

Worst:
Guys and Dolls
Memphis
White Christmas (great dancing, great songs, so why was I so bored?)

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 9:44pm

I feel like Billy Elliot is more 2008, even though of course technically it's not.

Same goes for Speed The Plow. Geez, that whole mess seemed like SO long ago, doesn't it?

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 9:48pm

Yeah but I saw BE in '09.

[AC126748]

Posted: 12/14/09 at 9:56pm

Listed alphabetically:

Best
Brighton Beach Memoirs
The Cherry Orchard
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Mary Stuart
The Orphans' Home Cycle
Ragtime
Ruined
A Streetcar Named Desire
Twelfth Night
Wishful Drinking

Worst
The American Plan
The Bacchae
Broke-Ology
Desire Under the Elms
Hedda Gabler
Our Town
The Starry Messenger
The Understudy
West Side Story
The Wiz