Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#0Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 2:17pmWhat is/are the best off broadway plays/musicals youve ever seen? Just wondering since Ive only seen one off broadway show. Any suggestions for me to go see?
#1re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 2:23pm
It has got to be a toss up between between the three that stand out in my memory -
Bat Boy
Gross Indecencies
The Laramie Project
Dream True
all of these were truly wonderful productions, Possums!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
Updated On: 8/17/04 at 02:23 PM
kitkatgirl54
Leading Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#2re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 2:31pmhedwig and the angry inch. hands down.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#3re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 2:50pm
I'd currently recommend BUG, Mrs. Farnsworth, Sarah Jones' Bridge and Tunnel and CVR. Coming soon, all of the major not-for-profits will be launching their seasons, so there are several very promising prodcutions opening in the next few weeks:
-- Paula Vogel's The Oldest Profession (Signature)
-- Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique (Dodger Stages)
-- People Be Heard (Playwrights)
-- String of Pearls (Primary Stages)
-- Edward Hall's Rose Rage (The Duke)
-- White Chocolate (Culture Project at the Century)
-- Peter Dinklage in Richard III (The Public)
-- Last Easter (by the writer of "Frozen" -- MCC at the Lortel)
That's just some of what's coming in the next few weeks, not including the 120 offerings of the Fringe Festival, many of which also look very promising.
As for "all-time favorite" off-Broadway plays, I won't even try. I've seen several hundred plays off-Broadway in the last 30+ years and the fact is the vast majority of the finest theatre I've ever seen has been Off-Broadway, not On (and most of the best plays I've seen On Broadway, started out Off-Broadway and then transferred). To try and come up with a list would be impossible (and ridiculously time-consuming) -- suffice to say that The Public, MCC, MTC, the Vineyard, Playwrights, Atlantic, NYTW, CSC, Second Stage, Signature, Primary Stages, and the off-Broadway commercial houses are the heart (and the brain) of the American Theatre.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
#4re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 2:51pmYes, I agree with Margo. However, for some reason, RUTHLESS! pops into my head.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#5re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 2:58pm
Forbidden Broadway,The Normal Heart
Embedded (closed)
NightLaughs
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/04
#6re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 3:21pmthe Last 5 Years...
If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."- Robert Fritz
Updated On: 8/17/04 at 03:21 PM
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#7re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 3:39pmThe Rocky Horror revival was Broadway (Circle In The Square) not off-Broadway.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
[http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/]
"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Royi88
Swing Joined: 8/9/04
#8re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 3:45pmI would definitely second Ruthless!
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#9re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 3:45pm
BARE
The Laramie Project
Beautiful Thing
#10re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 8:39pm"Hed-Vig" !!!! Without a doubt !!!!
bobby_strong
Stand-by Joined: 7/20/04
#11re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 8:40pm
BARE for sure.
although liked tick tick boom and laramie.
#12re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 8:42pm
Hedwig
Batboy
The Last Five Years
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
brunettebabe
Stand-by Joined: 8/17/04
#13re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:23pm
Bat Boy
The Last 5 Years
BARE
#14re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/17/04 at 11:59pm
Other People's Money
Driving Miss Daisy
Steel Magnolias
Balm In Gilead
Orphans
Uncommon Women
Fool for Love
The House of Blue Leaves
Six Degrees of Separation
How I Learned to Drive
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#15re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:19amRuthless! Absolutely love that show!
Deet: Shira, I Love You!
#16re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/18/04 at 12:21am
I LOVE The Laramie Project
well i also saw the pirates of penzance off-broadway but it was a revival...its a fun show though
Phantom487
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/04
#17re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/18/04 at 8:48am
Forbidden Broadway
Zanna Don't!
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Naked Boys Singing
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/18/04 at 8:52amNaked Boys Singing!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/18/04 at 9:16am
Tick, Tick, BOOM
Hedwig
Bat Boy
But who can possibly forget the classic, long-running Fantasticks? I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it. I love that show. One of my earliest theatrical memories. I even own the movie *blush* although that might be due to my little crush on Joey McIntyre. hehe.
#20re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/18/04 at 11:27am
De La Guarda
The Fantasticks
Forever Plaid
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#21re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/18/04 at 11:54pm
Zanna, Don't!
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thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#22re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:07am
Bat Boy
BUG
(I saw Golda's Balcony downtown)
#23re: Whats your Favorite Off-Broadway Show?
Posted: 8/19/04 at 12:55amTick Tick Boom, BARE (Going to be Off-Broadway), WILD PARTY (LIPPA), etc.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
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