Whats your favorite play?

[klubbhead024]

I just got back from seeing Phantom of the Opera in Toledo, and yet again it blew me away! I have seen this play 6 times, each in a different city, and I never get tired of it!
What is everyone's favorite play?

[Katzpur]

Probably Les Mis, but I'm such a fan of musical theater than I really have too many favorites to list.

[ayani]

i saw "Our Lady of 121st Street" a few months back and loved it. it was jarring, and very well performed.

my favorite play to read is "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Williams. it's an awesome read, and the first play i ever picked up. it just wakes up my cinematic imagination everytime to go through it.

[Tigress]

It's difficult to choose, as I like so many, but I'll go with 'Guys and Dolls' because it's the last one I saw.

[Shadow Wolf]

MacBeth and A Mid Summer Night's Dream. I've never seen them performed live though.

My favorite play that I've performed in was Niel Simon's "Rumors." It took a couple weeks for everyone to be able to say the lines without laughing at all, and all the names that ryhme, mainly Ken, Glen, and Len, make it difficult at times, especially when they all swap names.
While I was in this play, playing the cop, I did notice a flaw in his lines. I believe it was the name Glen is never mentioned to him, but he somehow knows that name.

[astarath]

Hero it's a play about what would happen if Yaheshua's story took place in modern day indiana. And it's got music written by DC talk who could ask for anything more?

[Booko]

I don't think I could choose just one, but the list of faves that come immediately to mind tends to be a bit uh old-fashioned:

King Lear
Twelth Night
Hamlet
Les Misanthrope (Moliere)
School for Scandal

Oh, I did see a production of Evita in London back in '80 that was just fantastic. For musicals, I'd definately have that on my list.

If anyone's interested (and having Netflix is a help) there's a really great version of Richard III with Sir Ian McKellan that's definately worth a view. The play is set with a Nazi theme and excellently done!

[Djamila]

1. Katarina Velika, Bosanska Kraljica (Catherine the Great, Bosnian Queen)



An historical epic about the life, exile, and death of Bosnia's last Queen. Her life was composed of as many opposites. She was the Queen who lost Bosnia to the Muslims, she was the Queen who abandonned the royal palaces at Bobovac and Jajce and exiled herself to Rome, defeated.

She's also the South Slavic ruler who held out longest, and parts of Bosnia remained free of Muslim rule for more than a century after Greece, Serbia, the rest of Bosnia, etc... all fell. A truly amazing story.


2. Djeca sa CNN (Children of CNN)



A play about the children who grew up during the war. It doesn't have the elaborate set designs and hundreds of actors that Katarina Velika has, but it's a very powerful play.


3. Na Izbore (The Vote)



What was it like to be Muslim and communist? Scary, and funny, apparently.


4. Zenski Turbofolk Bend (Women's Fast-folk Music Band)



What happens when six struggling, middle-aged war widows - among them Muslims, Roman Catholics, an Orthodox Christian, and a Jew - decide to enter the big-breasted-20-something-blonde dominated world of Bosnian fast-folk music? Hilarity.

[Kamala]

Are we talking plays or musicals (or both)?

Anyway, my favorite play is Humble Boy (a modern reinterpretation of Hamlet) and my favorite musicals are Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, Fiddler on the Roof and Sweeney Todd.