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What was the best show you saw this year?
#25What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 11:47am
Sweeney Todd in the West End. Amazing atmospheric production, incredible ensemble, and one of the best performances I have ever seen by Imelda Staunton as Lovett.
on broadway: Once.
off Broadway: The Outgoing TIde
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#26What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 11:53amDrood :) There were some close runners up though with Into the Woods and Peter and the Starcatcher.
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#27What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 11:56am
Sunday in the Park with George at Chicago Shakespeare.
Jason Danieley's Finishing The Hat + Carmen Cusack's "We Do Not Belong Together" = swoon.
Emmaloucbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/11
#28What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 12:08pmOne Man, Two Guvnors, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Drood.
#29What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 12:24pm
Peter and the Starcatcher
Once
Golden Boy
Drood
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#30What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 3:32pm
Another vote for PETER & THE STARCATCHER for runner-up...
Topped only by DEATH OF A SALESMAN.
Both were transporting like no other show this year.
#31What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 3:36pm
Broadway: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-Best acting ever seen.
DC: The Normal Heart-riveting!
bwayfan4ever2
Chorus Member Joined: 5/12/06
#32What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 4:26pmFor me, Once Off Broadway. Friends I recommended it to did not like it on Broadway.
#33What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 4:32pm
On Broadway: Once
In Toronto: Studio 180's reprise production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart (http://www.studio180theatre.com/productions/the-normal-heart-2012) and Soulpepper's production of Ins Choi's new play Kim's Convenience (being reprised in 2013: http://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/13_season/kim's_convenience.aspx)
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#34What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 5:00pm
One Man, Two Guvnors
Follies
Once
Golden Boy
#35What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 5:06pm
I never have 1 favorite, but the shows that I enjoyed/admired the most would be...
Peter and the Starcatcher
One Man, Two Guvnors
Clybourne Park
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Encores)
#36What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 6:26pm
The Lady From Dubuque
Death of a Salesman
Tribes
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#37What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 6:44pm
PORGY AND BESS
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF.
They don't make 'em like they used to.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
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Featured Actor Joined: 12/5/09
#38What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 7:14pm
Macbeth (Alan Cumming's version)
Uncle Vanya (Sydney Theatre Co.)
Twelfth Night (Globe version)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#39What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 8:13pm
ONE MAN, TWO GUV'NORS
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
MarkBearSF
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
#40What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/24/12 at 10:17pm
Not a musical this year.
In order:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Venus in Fur
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Death of a Salesman
Clybourne Park
...and then Nice Work, Best Man, Annie, Porgy and others
MarkBearSF
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/11
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#44dupe (nm)
Posted: 12/25/12 at 12:20pm
If I count repeats of things I saw in 2011, I'd say Once and Peter and the Starcatcher. But if I'm only considering productions that I saw for the first time in 2012, I would have to say (and I'm definitely forgetting things since I saw a ton this year):
LONDON (3-way tie): Sweeney Todd, Singin' in the Rain, and Noises Off
BROADWAY: Drood and Virginia Woolf
OFF-BROADWAY: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at Encores!
(I still have yet to see Picnic, The Heiress, A Civil War Christmas, Golden Boy, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bare, The Great God Pan, Tribes, Water by the Spoonful, and The Other Place -- several of which I will be seeing before the end of the year.)
Len Gersten
Chorus Member Joined: 10/4/07
#45What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/25/12 at 3:11pm
I saw a number of outstanding shows this year, so I cannot limit my choices to just one. Just trying to get my list down to five is difficult enough, but here goes:
Peter and the Starcatcher
Golden Boy
One Man, Two Guvnors
Follies
Jersey Boys (with John Lloyd Young reprising his Tony-winning performance)
#46What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/25/12 at 10:52pm
PIPE DREAM. Don't question me.
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#47What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/26/12 at 1:22am
Top 3:
1) WIT (Hands down, the best thing I have ever witnessed on a stage and the only time I began openly weeping in the theater).
2) THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
3) PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
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#48What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/26/12 at 6:35pmDeath of a Salesman and Follies
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#49What was the best show you saw this year?
Posted: 12/26/12 at 7:32pm
This is how you have been voting so far, favorite show at top.
Peter and the Starcatcher x12
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf x8
The Mystery of Edwin Drood x8
Once x8
One Man, Two Guvnors x7
Follies x5
Merrily We Roll Along (Encores) x3
Golden Boy x3
Death of a Salesman x3
Sweeney Todd (London) x2
Into The Woods x1
Porgy and Bess x1
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes x1
Anything Goes x1
Venus In Fur x1
Clybourne Park x1
Tribes x1
Carrie x1
Nice Work if You Can Get It x1
Jekyll and Hyde
Giant
Sleep No More
Bring It In
Hit the Wall (Chicago)
Full Of Fire (Chicago)
Passion (Chicago)
Wicked
The Syringa Tree, (Ontario)
4000 Miles
The Lady of Dubuque
Murder Ballad
Other Desert Cities (LA)
Jersey Boys
Pipe Dreams
Checkers
WIT
Evita
Sunday In The Park with George (Chicago)
The Outgoing Tide
Newsies
The Normal Heart (Washington DC)
The Normal Heart (Toronto)
Kim’s Convenience (Toronto)
Macbeth (Alan Cumming’s version)
Uncle Vanya (Sydney Theatre Co.)
Twelve Night (Globe Theatre, London)
Singin’ in the Rain (London)
Noises Off (London)
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