Favorite Shows of 2019
Favorite Shows of 2019
#1Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 4:45pm
We have a thread discussing the best Broadway cast recording of 2019, as well as threads discussing the best and worst of the past decade, but I didn't see a thread devoted simply to what everyone saw this year (apologies if this already exists; I did a search and nothing turned up!).
So, what were your favorite theatrical experiences of 2019? Feel free to list as many or as few as you'd like.
Here's mine:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Hadestown
What the Constitution Means to Me
Mrs. Murray's Menagerie
Octet
A Strange Loop
Six (A.R.T.)
The Wrong Man
Little Shop of Horrors
Ben_Platt_Out
Understudy Joined: 2/2/18
#3Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 5:13pm
More specifically, my favorite theatrical experiences of this year were getting a job in the industry (FINALLY) and performing my one-woman show in NYC again (which you, BroadwayGuy, so graciously support). The Across a Crowded Room writers' workshop at Lincoln Center was also great fun.
Broadwaywise, I only saw The Prom, Kiss Me Kate, Merrily We Roll Along, BCEFA's Red Bucket Follies, and Jagged Little Pill. Long story as to why I don't see more stuff. But I really enjoyed all five of them!
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Updated On: 12/28/19 at 05:13 PM
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#4Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 5:31pm
Musicals:
Oklahoma
Moulin Rouge
Did not like anything else I saw enough
Plays:
To Kill a Mockingbird (assuming it actually opened in 2019)
The Sound Inside
Slave Play
The Lehman Trilogy
King Lear Revival
Hated:
Hadestown (my wife loved it)
Gary
RWPrincess
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/18
#5Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 6:51pm
SIX (Chicago)
Rock of Ages (NWS)
Yiddish Fiddler
Tootsie
Burn This
The Waverly Gallery
BCEFA Disney on Broadway 25th Anniversary Concert
gibsons2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/26/19
#6Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 7:28pm
Favorite musicals:
Hadestown (Really loved the score, still listen to the songs. The chemistry between Eva and Reeve was electrifying)
Oklahoma! (I was lucky enough to see the full original cast, although I saw it recently for the first time. Was blown away by the actor who played Jud)
Favorite plays:
Slave play
The Sound Inside (was my first play with Mary Louise Parker who I can't wait to see again).
Biggest disappointments of 2019: Moulin Rouge and Betrayal. Too much hype and high expectations that didn't deliver for me personally.
#7Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 7:46pm
West Side Story
Little Shop of Horrors (Off- Broadway)
Evita (New York City Center)
The Sound Inside
What the Constitution Means to Me
Oklahoma!
Moulin Rouge!
Hadestown
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Updated On: 12/29/19 at 07:46 PM
#8Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 7:54pm
Hadestown
To Kill a Mockingbird
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#9Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 7:54pm
BroadwayGuy12 said: "So, what were your favorite theatrical experiences of 2019?"
My favorite theatrical experience of 2019 wasn’t a show that opened this year, but closed - KINKY BOOTS. Saw it back-to-back the same day with my other favorite theatrical experience or 2019, again not a show that opened this year but is the longest running - PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. With both shows it was my first time seeing them on Broadway, and was blown away by both of them.
UncleCharlie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
#10Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 8:04pm
Will have ended up seeing 23 Broadway shows during calendar 2019 and given I live at the other end of the country, I'm pretty pleased with that total. Many of them were very good, a few real clinkers but the 8 best I saw regardless of what year in which they opened were:
The Sound Inside
Moulin Rouge
The Ferryman
Network
The Band's Visit (repeat visit)
Waverly Gallery
Come From Away (repeat visit)
Choir Boy
Honorable mention to Fiddler in Yiddish even though it was off Broadway. Just wonderful.
BWAY Baby2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/14
#11Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 10:09pm
Best musical- Moulin Rouge
Best drama- The Inheritance
#12Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/26/19 at 11:45pm
Best New Play: Nantucket Sleigh Ride by John Guare
Best New Musical: In the Green by Grace McLean
Best Revival: Juno and the Paycock at the Irish Rep
Best Performance: Monette McGrath in The Rainmaker at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
Best Ensemble: Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie by the Mad Ones
Director of the Year: Robert O’Hara
Playwright of the Year: Jackie Sibblies Drury (Fairview, Marys Seacole)
Company of the Year: Signature Theatre (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Curse of the Starving Class, Young Man from Atlanta)
Other great theatre: Choir Boy, Hurricane Diane, Eat the Devil, The B-Side, Dying City, Shadow of a Gunman, Promenade, The Sound Inside, London Assurance, The Thin Place
Ledaero
Featured Actor Joined: 11/20/14
#13Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/27/19 at 2:59am
My top 10:
- Choir Boy - Manhattan Theatre Club
- Octet - Signature Theatre
- Heroes of the Fourth Turning - Playwrights Horizons
- Daddy - The New Group and Vineyard Theatre
- White Noise - Public Theater
- The Flick - Shotgun Players
- Hurricane Diane - New York Theatre Workshop
- Our Dear Dead Druglord - Women’s Project Theatre
- Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie - Ars Nova
- The Lehman Trilogy - Park Avenue Armory
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#14Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/27/19 at 10:03amHadestown, The Prom (deserved better), and Oklahoma!
Kitsune
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/06
#15Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/28/19 at 3:06pm
After I see Pride and Prejudice at Theatreworks tomorrow, I will have seen 60 shows this year. 49 of them are unique. 12 were Broadway, 4 were off-Broadway, 8 were touring productions, and 25 were Bay Area regional/local shows. I saw 38 musicals and 11 plays, plus 8 concerts/cabaret shows (not included in the totals above).
The show I saw the most was SF Playhouse's production of Groundhog Day (5 times so far), followed by Come From Away (4 times between the tour and Broadway). I also saw Octet, Hello Dolly!, Hamilton San Francisco, and Hadestown each twice.
My top picks:
Come From Away (saw both the tour and Broadway productions)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (concert at Lincoln Center)
Metamorphoses (Berkeley Rep)
Hello Dolly! (tour)
The Jungle (Curran Theater in San Francisco)
Weightless (ACT in San Francisco)
Hadestown
The Ferryman
Octet
Once (42nd Street Moon in San Francisco)
The Cake (New Conservatory Theater in San Francisco)
Groundhog Day (SF Playhouse in San Francisco)
Honorable mentions:
-What the Constitution Means to Me
-The Prom
-Bull in a China Shop (Aurora Theater Company in Berkeley, CA)
-The Daughters (SF Playhouse in San Francisco, CA)
-Cabaret (SF Playhouse in San Francisco, CA)
-The Play That Goes Wrong (tour)
-Hamilton (And Peggy) tour
Notable concert/cabaret:
-Faith Prince
-Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp
-Beth Leavel
#16Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/28/19 at 7:59pmMy favorite shows that I saw were The Band’s Visit (Broadway) and Come From Away (tour, second time after Toronto 2018) but my favorite show that came out this year is Hadestown, which I’m seeing sometime in the spring.
you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3
fitzdavid2
Chorus Member Joined: 8/20/18
#17Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/28/19 at 9:14pm
In no particular order:
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
The Prom
The Sound Inside
Betrayal
Hilary and Clinton
Greater Clements
Choirboy
Height of the Storm
Scotland, Pa.
Beetlejuice
fitzdavid2
Chorus Member Joined: 8/20/18
#18Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/28/19 at 9:15pm
In no particular order:
Heroes of the Fourth Turning
The Prom
The Sound Inside
Betrayal
Hilary and Clinton
Greater Clements
Choirboy
Height of the Storm
Scotland, Pa.
Beetlejuice
#19Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/29/19 at 2:18am
Listed Alphabetically:
* The Band’s Visit (Broadway - second visit)
* Falsettos (on tour/Sacramento)
* Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish
* Frost/Nixon (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma)
* Hadestown
* Hamilton (once in Chicago, twice on The Philip Tour in OKC)
* Hello, Dolly! (on tour/OKC)
* Little Shop of Horrors
* Moulin Rouge
* Waitress (on tour/Oklahoma City)
* The Waverly Gallery
Honorable Mention:
Torch Song
To Kill a Mockingbird
jbird5
Broadway Star Joined: 12/20/15
#20Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/29/19 at 6:57am
TKAM
Oklahoma!
Hadestown
Linda Vista
Dance Nation (Wilma Theatre)
#21Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/29/19 at 8:15am
The closing performances of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG & KINKY BOOTS.
COME FROM AWAY(4x in 2019)
HADESTOWN
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#24Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/29/19 at 10:36am
i did not see much in 2019.
HADESTOWN best theatre i've seen in a long time. love the music and the staging is fantastic.
Beetlejuice such a fun time in the theatre, lex Brightman was robbed
Oklahoma! a fresh take on a classic show
Moulin Rogue! another fun time. Danny Burstein for the Tony
in chicago i finally saw HAMILTON after years of avoiding it, liked it a ton
#25Favorite Shows of 2019
Posted: 12/29/19 at 3:51pm
Musical: Oklahoma!
Play: The Inheritance and The Sound Inside
Immersive: The Blood Comedies and The Winter Machine (both in L.A.). The Blood Comedies is my favorite theatrical experience of any kind. It was just me and one actor in a room for 30 minutes and it was one of the best things I've ever experienced. By the end of it, I was sobbing, the actor was crying, we were hugging, it was extraordinary.
