Best live play you ever saw?

[Recursion]

It's a tie for me:

1. Alan Alda / Jeffrey Tambor in Glengarry Glen Ross (my second favorite script after R&G Are Dead)

2. Patrick Stewart in the Scottish play

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I hate to be pedestrian, but I saw Phantom several times.

Also Lion King and Les Miserables. Loved the music, lighting, colors.

[Recursion]

2. Phantom's a really good show

No need to be ashamed. It was popular because it was good.

I never saw Lion King, but Les Mis was great. I also liked the movie.Add to Journal Self-delete Edit p

[CurtEastPoint]

9. In LA Ben Vereen was the Phantom. Not a bad job. The other time was a

road show in Atlanta at the Fox, I believe. All wonderful shows.

[NV Whino]

3. Master Builder

With Sir (at that time) Lawrence Olivier.

The moment he walked on stage, before he had even spoken, he had captured the audience. And I don't even like the play. I saw it only because I couldn't get tickets to Othello.

[Recursion]

5. Nice! Never seen him live

But you're the third person to mention that effect.

[antiquie]

4. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Ivar Theater, Hollywood, 1968
Minimalist fun for my 18th birthday (maybe why it's so special in my mind).

[Recursion]

6. Oh, great show! It's special to me

When I was in 5th grade, I moved from Texas back to Mississippi, where I was born.

My friends made a tape for me as a goodbye present where they sang the entire soundtrack of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" but changed the words to be about me. I still have that tape, and even in the days of facebook it's still the last I've heard from several of them.

[antiquie]

14. How wonderful!

You were loved.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Master Class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Class

I saw a performance of this recently, by a terrific actress, Sally Wingert. Knocked my socks off. http://www.theaterlatteda.com/masterclass/

[Recursion]

8. Cool! I don't know the show

I'll definitely check that out.

[pscot]

10. My Fair Lady

Volpone, done by the Seattle Rep, years ago.

[HERVEPA]

11. Musical - Kinky Boots Non-Musical - Arcadia, or pretty much any Stoppard

[Recursion]

18. "As surely as we know that Byron shot that rabbit!"

That's a great play

[Brother Buzz]

12. Guys and Dolls at a Podunk community theater

Local talent giving everything they had, and it showed.

[Recursion]

13. Nice! I LOVE that show

I played Sky in our podunk production of it; one of the best times I ever had.

[Brother Buzz]

20. Everyone is hooked at Fugue for Tinhorns

I've seen quite a few productions of Guys and Dolls, from San Francisco's polished Civic Light Opera production to high school productions, and even outdoor production at the Mountain Play on Mount Tamalpais, but those 'podunk' theaters productions offer the biggest bang for the buck, bar none.

If I didn't have a tin ear, I'd love to have played Nathan Detroit.

[WinkyDink]

35. Sit down; you're rockin' the boat! I first saw "G&D" as a h.s. production, not the earlier movie,

and LOVED IT!

The movie, in particular the choreography and the coloring, is BRILLIANT!

[hollysmom]

15. Are Plays and musicals the same or different? In awards they seem to be separate.

[Recursion]

16. For the purpose of this thread, they're the same (nt)

[Sweet Freedom]

17. Best live play would have to be

War horse

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Cyrano de Bergerac

by the Comedie Francaise in Paris.

[PasadenaTrudy]

21. Book of Mormon n/t

[femmocrat]

22. "Les Miserables"

Saw the traveling company. I've never seen a show on Broadway.

[WolverineDG]

23. Noises Off (original Broadway cast) &

the King & I with Yul Brynner at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio (touring company, before he got diagnosed with lung cancer). My mom got tickets at a travel agency & thought we had gotten nosebleed seats, so she brought her opera glasses. Turns out we were 3 row, center, orchestra.

[Xipe Totec]

24. Equus nt

[avebury]

25. Here are my nominations:

1. The 39 Steps (seen in London) performed with 4 actors, 2 of whom played the majority of the characters and moved the scenery around. The production was hilarious
2. Bombay Dreams by A R Rahman - An amazing show, very different from your traditional west end production. Definitely the #1 in my book in terms how how they staged the production. I loved loved loved it.
3. Wicked with Idena Menzel when when it went on stage in London with Idina Menzel beginning the shows run as Elphaba. I was so excited to see her perform the role. I actually saw the London production with Idina Menzel four times.
4. Les Mis with John Owen Jones as Jean Valjean - - I could watch his performance over and over.
5. Woman In White by Andrew Lloyd Webber - A very different production for Webber. It had a very real plot based off of a book by Wilkie Collins, a contemporary of Charles Dickens. All during the first part of the show the woman in white would appear briefly on stage. By the intermission I was like - who the heck is the woman in white and what is her story? I totally got sucked into the story.
6. I should add Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - I have never read the book or watched the movie. I thought the staging of the production was really cute.

It is hard to play favorites there are so many that I have loved. You know that you have been to way too many London west end productions when you start to recognize actors from one show to another.

[panader0]

26. Cats

I was dragged to it by my GF and ended up liking it.

[KT2000]

29. Love that one n/t

[Initech]

27. Got to be either The Book of Mormon or Jason Alexander and Martin Short in the Producers.

Springtime for Hitler. ..

[First Speaker]

28. Peter Brooks' Midsummer Night's Dream

...that was, and remains, the greatest theatrical production I've ever seen, or imagined...just overwhelming...

[Sherman A1]

30. Several

Hal Holbrook - Mark Twain Tonight, James Whitmore - Give'em Hell Harry, Brian Dennehy - Death of a Salesman, A local production of "Our Town" and of course "The Fantastiks"

A couple of years ago we saw a touring company do "The 39 Steps".

I love live theater, just don't get to see it as often as I like.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. a few for me

I Love 'The 39 Steps" it is hilarious
Into the Woods Broadway tour
Chorus Line Broadway tour

King and I with Yul Brynner in Nashville (tour)
Hello Dolly with Carol Channing also in Nashville

Cats

a fabulous production of "The Mikado" done by the Denton Light Opera Company

I have seen The Mikado on stage 5 times I am addicted .

Greater Tuna and the rest of the "Tuna Cycle" of plays

We love live theater and go whenever we can get it together to do so

[Ron Obvious]

32. Kopenhagen

Starring whatshisface and that guy from TV.

We don't go to a lot of plays, but we both enjoyed that one.

[WinkyDink]

33. B'way Musical: 1967--"Man of La Mancha"//Jose' Ferrer. B'way Drama: 2007--"The Homecoming"//Ian Mc-

Shane and Raul Esparza.

[WinkyDink]

34. I saw that Patrick Stewart one, too! It was great, but I put it in my "Runner-up" category. :-)

I taught it for umpteen years, so it was a pilgrimage of sorts!

[shenmue]

36. A Chorus Line

Also, 'The Crucible.'

[LawDeeDah]

37. Handel's Messiah

done by a small but magnificent effort by local talent. I have it on video and play it each Christmas. I suppose it doesn't really fit into the 'play' thing but of all the plays I have seen, this one is branded on me most.

[PennyK]

38. A Funny Thing Happened

Starring Nathan Lane. Got to meet him backstage. My first of many times seeing him perform. Love him.