What was the best show you saw this year?

[aasjb4ever]

What was the best show you saw this year?#1

Posted: 12/23/12 at 6:23pm

ANYTHING GOES was absolutely joyous. I went twice over the course of 4 weeks this summer.

[bwayphreak234]

What was the best show you saw this year?#2

Posted: 12/23/12 at 6:47pm

Jekyll and Hyde - I loved everything about the new production.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[LuminousBeing]

What was the best show you saw this year?#2

Posted: 12/23/12 at 6:49pm

"Giant," hands-down.

[GlindatheGood22]

What was the best show you saw this year?#3

Posted: 12/23/12 at 6:54pm

Sleep No More.

But traditionally, either Starcatcher or Virginia Woolf.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[ratherbewhaling]

What was the best show you saw this year?#4

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:01pm

One Man, Two Guvnors

Nancy Reagan, meanest and thinnest of the first ladies moves into the white house. Yabba dabba! It's the eighties.

[Jordan Catalano]

What was the best show you saw this year?#5

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:05pm

I had more fun at BRING IT ON than anything else this entire year.

[mpd4165]

What was the best show you saw this year?#6

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:08pm

Hit the Wall in Chicago. Full of fire and passion that played with a great band in the Steppenwolf Garage space.

[broadwaydevil]

What was the best show you saw this year?#7

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:15pm

Toss up between Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Once.

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

[AC126748]

What was the best show you saw this year?#8

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:17pm

Tribes

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[TheGingerBreadMan]

What was the best show you saw this year?#9

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:21pm

I didn't have a chance to see much this year. I would have to say WICKED, even though I've seen it tons of times before. Most of the stuff I saw this year was on tour, and I didn't enjoy much. On Bway I only saw WICKED, PETER, and DROOD. DROOD comes in a close second. I saw BRING IT ON during it's tour run, and it was okay, but definitely is not my favorite. I enjoyed the WSS tour as well. (May not have seen that this year, trying to recall if it was this year or very late last year)

[smallworld]

What was the best show you saw this year?#10

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:26pm

Once. I thought it was incredible and highly deserving of every award it received.

[dramamama611]

What was the best show you saw this year?#11

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:37pm

Once.

Followed by Peter and the Starcatchers, then followed by Drood.

And as much as I love all three of those shows, there is a HUGE gap to get to whatever might come in 4th place.

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[Jordan Catalano]

What was the best show you saw this year?#12

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:57pm

All in all, 2012 SUCKED for the most part, when it comes to theater.

[little_sally]

What was the best show you saw this year?#13

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:58pm

Peter and the Starcatcher

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[SNAFU]

What was the best show you saw this year?#14

Posted: 12/23/12 at 7:59pm

For me? In order from #1:

Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

One Man Two Guvners (closing night)

Peter and the Starcatchers

Venus in Fur

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[KylePKJP]

What was the best show you saw this year?#15

Posted: 12/23/12 at 8:06pm

A regional production of The Syringa Tree at Magnus Theatre in Ontario. Have never seen such a tour de force performance by one woman, distinctly playing over twenty characters over the span of thirty years. The most profound theatrical experience I have had in a long time!

[BroadwayGuy12]

What was the best show you saw this year?#16

Posted: 12/23/12 at 8:11pm

The Encores! MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG and Lincoln Center's 4000 MILES were my two favorites performances of the year.

[mj21723]

What was the best show you saw this year?#17

Posted: 12/23/12 at 8:17pm

Loved Once! Saw it three times and can't wait to go again! Also loved Peter and the Starcatcher. Thinking about going to the closing.

[Marianne2]

What was the best show you saw this year?#18

Posted: 12/23/12 at 8:21pm

Follies or Into The Woods at Shakespeare in the Park. Murder Ballad is up there too.

"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005 "You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy. Ignored Users: suestorm, N2N Nate., Owen22, master bates

[dramamama611]

What was the best show you saw this year?#19

Posted: 12/24/12 at 6:28am

Ooops...must make an addendum. One Man, Two Guvenors ranks above Drood. Possibly above Peter.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[rosscoe(au)]

What was the best show you saw this year?#20

Posted: 12/24/12 at 7:54am

Sweeney Todd, was perfect in everyway, with two killer leads.

Stateside, either Follies or Other Desert Cities both in LA.

Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

[muscle23ftl]

What was the best show you saw this year?#21

Posted: 12/24/12 at 8:07am

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Followed by Carrie, and then followed by Nice Work If You Can Get It.

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[showchoirguy]

What was the best show you saw this year?#22

Posted: 12/24/12 at 10:46am

I have to say that I absolutely adored Drood and thought it was one of the best shows and the best casts I've seen this year. I also heavily enjoyed Evita, Newsies, Porgy and Bess, and Nice Work. Carrie would be the best Off-Broadway show I've seen this year.

[madbrian]

What was the best show you saw this year?#23

Posted: 12/24/12 at 10:56am

For me, Once was far and away the best show I saw all year. Nothing else compared.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[neonlightsxo]

What was the best show you saw this year?#24

Posted: 12/24/12 at 11:26am

The top three that come to mind are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Merrily We Roll Along at Encores, and Golden Boy.