Thanks, Goat, for "Dirty Blond". It doesn't actually make my list, but I thought it was really terriffic, insightful, touching, funny, etc., and I think everyone I know who saw it was luke-warm on it.
"They have never understood, and no reason that they should.
But if anybody could . . . " --SS
I'm not sure if To Kill A Mockingbird has ever been on Broadway, but it is definetly my favorite play. I was in it, and sometimes after the performances we'd let the audience ask questions. And, even then the things the cast would say about the play that I hadn't even thought about were amazing. Being a part of that show was a truly wonderful experience. Also, Atticus's closing speech in the courtroom is brilliant. ~I also like: -Equus -Over the River and Through the Woods -The Woman in Black -Angel Street -Angels in America
"Make the most of the music that is yours." -Stephen Sondheim
I only have two to choose from (The Woman in Black and The Pillowman.) I'd say....... The Woman in Black. Pillowman was a good show, but I liked Woman in Black better. Coincidentally, I screamed at points during both shows, but Pillowman made me scream louder. I told all the cast members except Billy Crudup, and they were all like, "You did?" I am never going to forget Jeff Goldblum's face when he responded. But I thought Woman in Black was better.
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
Metamorphosis (it so beautiful that I cried) The Real Thing The Piano Lesson On Borrowed Time (George C Scott and Teresa Wright (Nathan too) The Madness of George III A Doll's House
(for starters)
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
"A Streetcar named Desire" "TRU" (Bobby Morse) "Lucifer's Child" Miss Julie Harris "Dark of the Moon" (semi musical) "Whose life is it Anyway?" "Lettice & Lovage" (Dame Maggie!) "Our Town" "Duke" with Julie Newmar "M. Butterfly" with Alec Mapa! "The Little Foxes" Miss Taylor AND Miss Channing's versions and of course, "The Scottish Play" with the DIVINE Glenda Jackson!!!!
Almost forgot to mention: "The Ritz" - simply a HOOT!
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
I love that someone mentioned the Jones/Plummer Othello. It was way before my time, but my Shakespeare prof regularly cites it as the best Shakespeare performance she's ever seen. We discussed Othello last week and she kept describing this production's interpretation. I wish I could have seen it!
I'm going to refrain from saying anything here because I haven't been going to plays long enough to have a favorite (my parents took me to musicals, and I've only been going to plays regularly since I started college) and don't want to look like a dork by saying something from a year and a half ago. I'll get back to you in a few years.
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Well, it wasn't on Broadway. Candles to the Sun by Tenessee Williams. I saw it a couple weeks ago. It made a big impression on me. But I read this was the secong it's ever been performed. I'm not excatly sure why....it's a great play.
"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question." -cheezedoodle
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Redgrave/Dennehey) Angels In America Design for Living (Julia/Clayburgh/Langella) A Delicate Balance (Harris/Stritch/Grizzard)
I really loved Finer Noble Gases, which I saw at USF.
Angels in America, definitely.
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
I also saw the Jones-Plumber "Othello", first in Palm Beach and then again at the Winter Garden theatre. I saw Diane Wiest in the Palm Beach production and then I saw someone else play Desdemona on Broadway. Kelsey Grammar was indeed CASSIO (not Cassius, he's from that other Shakespeare play). Plumber was most brilliant.
His daughter blew me away in "Agnes Of God".
Here are a few of my other favorites in no order. There are so many others that I could mention but these are some that first came to mind:
'night Mother. Angels In America Master Harold and The Boys M Butterfly
"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!"
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Well, if we're talking about original productions of plays that we have seen than the three best that I have seen have most definately been The Pillowman, Metamorphasis and I Am My Own Wife. Pillowman was haunting, Meamorphasis was fascinating, and I Am My Own Wife was touching. Such wonderful works!
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.