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Whats your favorite play?
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klubbhead024
Active Member
Kamala said:
??? This is the most responses I have ever gotten from a topic!
People here are quite cultured.... what a nice change!
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
"Inherit the Wind" is a great play. If you ever have a chance to see it, I would highly recommend it. It's based on the 1925 Scopes Trial (aka the "Monkey Trial") which resulted in the conviction of a high school science teacher who went against Tennessee state law by teaching Darwin's Theory of evolution. It's been years since I saw it, but I still remember how powerful it was.
Another great play is "Proof," which won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for Best Play in 2001. (It was made into a movie which was good, but by no means great.)
Another great play is "Proof," which won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for Best Play in 2001. (It was made into a movie which was good, but by no means great.)
SoyLeche
meh...
My all time favorite is probably Les Mis.
I've really enjoyed most of them that I've seen, except Grease. I didn't care for that one.
We just went and saw Wicked a few weeks ago. That was great.
*note to self, isn't Phantom playing in DC sometime soon??? Need to check up on that*
I've really enjoyed most of them that I've seen, except Grease. I didn't care for that one.
We just went and saw Wicked a few weeks ago. That was great.
*note to self, isn't Phantom playing in DC sometime soon??? Need to check up on that*
PureX
Veteran Member
I saw a play years ago in Chicago called "Telethon", in a real nice funky little off-beat theater. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a spoof on the Jerry Lewis Telethons that used to be on TV.
Also, way back in the early 80s in Chicago there used to be a store front performance gallery that had live "art performances" on friday nights. It was only $5 to get in, and you brought your own alcohol or whatever to drink, and sat on backless benches. Man! I saw some amazing performances, there. Later, they moved it to a great little basement bar in uptown, and it got even better (but more expensive). I truly love that sort of thing. People just get up in front of the crowd and do whatever they think is meaningful. To me, this is the oldest and most pure art form there is. It's how art began all those millennia ago, around the camp fires.
Also, way back in the early 80s in Chicago there used to be a store front performance gallery that had live "art performances" on friday nights. It was only $5 to get in, and you brought your own alcohol or whatever to drink, and sat on backless benches. Man! I saw some amazing performances, there. Later, they moved it to a great little basement bar in uptown, and it got even better (but more expensive). I truly love that sort of thing. People just get up in front of the crowd and do whatever they think is meaningful. To me, this is the oldest and most pure art form there is. It's how art began all those millennia ago, around the camp fires.
Zephyr
Moved on
Plays: Macbeth and Hamlet. They're just classics.
Musicals: Sweeney Todd, and Cannibal! The Musical (If that counts. It was brilliant I say!)
Also, Our Town was just horrible. For serious. I had to play the scientist dude since nobody else in the class could pronounce all them big words.
Musicals: Sweeney Todd, and Cannibal! The Musical (If that counts. It was brilliant I say!)
Also, Our Town was just horrible. For serious. I had to play the scientist dude since nobody else in the class could pronounce all them big words.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
One play I'd love to be in again is Agatha Cristie's "Ten Little Indians."
Ah, I agree that folks here ARE quite cultured! Here's a few of mine, although I've seen WAY too many stage shows to remember them all:
Musicals:
Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
Pirates of Penzance
Rent
A Chorus Line
Tommy
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Chicago
Into the Woods
Stage theatre:
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie (perhaps my favorite of all time, and I'm a T. Williams fan girl)
Birthday Party
Death of a Salesman
Shakespeare:
Twelfth Night
Macbeth
And I wonder if Stomp! counts. LOL
I know I've forgotten at least a dozen shows.
Peace,
Mystic
Musicals:
Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
Pirates of Penzance
Rent
A Chorus Line
Tommy
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Chicago
Into the Woods
Stage theatre:
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie (perhaps my favorite of all time, and I'm a T. Williams fan girl)
Birthday Party
Death of a Salesman
Shakespeare:
Twelfth Night
Macbeth
And I wonder if Stomp! counts. LOL
I know I've forgotten at least a dozen shows.
Peace,
Mystic
Dr. Nosophoros
Active Member
Arsenic and Old Lace
