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Broadway Best Of...

Dec 21, 2009 15:44

NY Magazine's Vulture lists their thoughts on the Best Theatre of 2009. Making the grade: The Last Cargo Cult, Wishful Drinking, Quartett, Brief Encounter, In the Next Room or the vibrator play, Ruined, The Norman Conquests, Fela!, A Little Night Music & Our Town.
The New Yorker has named The Top Ten Moments in Theatre of 2009 with Sarah Ruhl's In ( Read more... )

*a streetcar named desire, *god of carnage, *hair, *wishful drinking, *joe turner's come and gone, *fela!, *blithe spirit, *ruined, *the norman conquests, *a little night music, *exit the king, *west side story, *in the next room, awards/nominations, *our town, *twelfth night, *brighton beach memoirs

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kelbelle December 21 2009, 20:50:38 UTC

Allison Janney's last "One of the Boys" on 9 to 5's closing.

Pretty much the entire closing weekend of 9 to 5.

givesmevoice December 21 2009, 20:51:55 UTC

Definitely Geoffrey Rush in Exit the King. Followed closely by Geoffrey Rush winning a Tony for Exit the King.

alligatorandme December 21 2009, 20:54:27 UTC

I didn't go to New York this year, but I did see the revival of Sunset Boulevard in London, which was excellent.

dreamoftheday December 21 2009, 20:55:49 UTC

My top 5 shows/performances of 2009 (in no particular order):
1. Ragtime
2. Alice Ripley in Next to Normal
3. Raul Esparza and Norbert Leo Butz in Speed-the-Plow
4. Hair
5. Finian's Rainbow

Honorable mentions: Billy Elliot (though they technically opened in 2008), Will Chase in The Story of My Life, Allison Janney in 9 to 5, Kate Jennings Grant, Craig Bierko, Tituss Burgess, and Mary Testa in Guys and Dolls

I'm sure I'll come up with more later haha but that's just off the top of my head. :)

givesmevoice December 21 2009, 20:58:53 UTC

6) Kate Baldwin becoming famous.

dreamoftheday December 21 2009, 21:08:20 UTC

I love your icon!

Also she is amazing...I need to go back to Finian's asap.

alligatorandme December 22 2009, 04:40:10 UTC

I loved her in White Christmas! Unfortunately, that's the only thing I've seen her in.

changinandhow December 21 2009, 23:47:26 UTC

next to normal's first preview on Broadway, 9 to 5's emotional closing, Hair, Cate Blanchett in Streetcar, Carrie Fisher doing the Star Wars hologram speech in Wishful Drinking, "Sarah Brown Eyes" in Ragtime...