Best: Billy Elliot Shrek The Norman Conquests Next to Normal Hair Ragtime A Little Night Music I don't really have a worst list, as no production was really THAT terrible (though I never actually saw Guys and Dolls...) but Gina Gershen would probably be on it...
" "(I don't know how I sat through her performance 3 times, but I survived.)"
Who cares about the How? I want to know WHY you did that! "
I saw The Little Mermaid 7 times in its run. First preview, twice last year, and 4 times this year.
I saw the show for my birthday with my friends, Sierra Boggess's last performance, and final performance of the show. That's how I got to 3 times with her in it.
Best Norman Conquests Ragtime Next to Normal (would say tos but that was 200
Worst Girl Crazy (although Marc Kudisch was good...but the show not so much) White Christmas Toxic Avenger Hamlet Blithe Spirit Guys and Dolls Mamets 2 Plays at Atc (and my tix were free and I should be supportive of my company...but that was terrible)
Best Brighton Beach Memoirs The Cherry Orchard Joe Turner's Come and Gone Mary Stuart The Orphans' Home Cycle Ragtime Ruined A Streetcar Named Desire Twelfth Night Wishful Drinking
Worst The American Plan The Bacchae Broke-Ology Desire Under the Elms Hedda Gabler Our Town The Starry Messenger The Understudy West Side Story The Wiz
"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