Patti Lupone - Evita Marcia Gay Harden - Angels In America Diana Rigg - Medea Mary-Louise Parker - How I Learned To Drive Faith Prince - Guys & Dolls Anna Devere-Smith - Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 Cherry Jones - The Heiress Elaine Stritch - A Delicate Balance Jennifer Holliday - Dreamgirls Zoe Caldwell - Master Class
Stephen Spinella - Angels In America Nathan Lane - Guys & Dolls Michael Cerveris - Tommy & Hedwig and the Angry Inch John Leguizamo - Mambo Mouth Charles Busch - You Should Be So Lucky Billy Crudup - Arcadia & Pillowman David Morse - How I Learned To Drive Mark Ruffalo - This Is Our Youth Alan Cumming - Cabaret Alan Rickman - Private Lives Updated On: 3/17/08 at 07:17 PM
This is really fun, cuz it brings back tons of great memories
In no real order --
Liam Neeson in JUDAS KISS Alan Cumming in CABARET Ralph Fiennes in IVANOV (London) Alan Rickman in PRIVATE LIVES Robert Lindsay in RICHARD III (London) Michael Ball in PASSION (London) Philip Quast in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (London) Jeff McCarthy in URINETOWN Christopher Plummer in KING LEAR David Morse in THE SEAFARER Conleth Hill in THE SEAFARER Victoria Hamilton in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (London)
You don't go to the dragon without a present - Mark Rylance
Haven't seen any truly great male performances, so I'm gonna limit this to the ladies.
5. Julia Murney- Wicked 4. Sutton Foster- Little Women 3. Christine Ebersole- Grey Gardens (not exactly live...hehe) 2. Alice Ripley- Next to Normal 1. Sarah Steele- Speech and Debate
My FAVORITE* performances this season: (*i.e. not necessarily "The Best", but "My Favorite")
Sarah Steele, Speech and Debate Alice Ripley, Next to Normal Brian D'Arcy James, Next to Normal Marc Kudisch, The Witches of Eastwick (Signature) Emily Skinner, The Witches of Eastwick Lin- Manuel Miranda, In The Heights Boyd Gaines, Gypsy Josh Grisetti, Enter Laughing Marc Kudisch, The Glorious Ones Hunter Foster, Frankenstein Adam Heller, Make Me A Song Amy Morton, August: Osage County Sally Murphy, August: Osage County Ian Barford, August: Osage County Jim Norton, The Seafarer Danny Burstein, South Pacific Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific Faith Prince, A Catered Affair Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair Hunter Foster, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Signature) Will Chase, Kiss of the Spider Woman Christopher J. Hanke, Cry- Baby Michael Arden, Juno Tobias Segal, From Up Here Julie White, From Up Here Aya Cash, From Up Here Will Rogers, From Up Here Michael Berresse, No No Nanette John Gallagher Jr., Port Authority Mark Rylance, Boeing- Boeing
Play, Actress 1)Amanda Plummer, Agnes of God 2)Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation 3)Colleen Dewhurst, A Moon For The Misbegotten 4)Maggie Smith, Lettice and Lovage 5)Kathleen Chalfant, W;t 6)Zoe Caldwell, Master Class 7)Vanessa Redgrave, Long Day's Journey Into Night Cherry Jones, The Heiress 9)Mercedes Ruehl, Lost In Yonkers 10)Lindsay Duncan, Les Liasons Dangereus
Actor, Play 1)Alan Bates, Fortune's Fool 2)Roger Rees, Nicholas Nickelby 3)Jason Robards, A Moon For The Misbegotten 4)Delroy Lindo, Joe Turner's Come and Gone 5)Christopher Plummer, Othello 6)George C. Scott, Death of a Salesman 7)James Earl Jones, Fences Alfred Molina, Art 9)Kevin Spacey, Lost In Yonkers 10)Ron Liebman, Angels In America
Actress, Musical 1)Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd 2)Tyne Daly, Gypsy 3)Chita Rivera, Chicago 4)Dorothy Collins, Follies 5)Victoria Clark, Light In The Piazza 6)Donna Murphy, Passion 7)Patti Lupone, Evita Jennifer Holliday, Dreamgirls 9)Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens 10)Randy Graff, City of Angels
Actor, Musical 1)Nathan Lane, The Producers 2)William Daniels, 1776 3)Colm Wilkinson, Les Miserables 4)Phil Silvers, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum 5)Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 6)James Naughton, City of Angels 7)Kevin Kline, The Pirates of Penzance Mandy Patinkin, Evita 9)Michael Jeter, Grand Hotel 10)Gregory Hines, Jelly's Last Jam