SOB's Singular Sensations Of '07 - Honorable Mentions
SOB's Singular Sensations Of '07 - Honorable MentionsDuring the course of 2007, I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate to have been in the audience for 82 stage productions ranging from the very small-scale play to the most elaborate of spectacles.
In my quest to see great theatre, my year began in Sydney Australia and took me to such far-flung destinations as London, Beijing, Stuttgart, Tokyo and Winnipeg. I've traversed the United States, crisscrossing from California to Massachusetts, Washington State to Georgia, Nevada to Connecticut, Colorado to Wisconsin. Then there were the three American communities that really know how to do live theatre: Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul and of course, New York.
Throughout my travels, several outstanding plays and musicals captured my heart, thanks in no small part to the enormously talented array of actors who found a way to strike a nerve and tap into a vein like few others. They've mesmerized, wowed and inspired me with a unique turn of a phrase, fluidity of movement or sublime singing voice or a combination of all three -- all provided that rare spinetingling sensation that can only be found through a live performance.
While I’ve been singling out SOB’s 7 Singular Sensations of ’07, please allow me to add my special honor roll of outstanding performances from the past year that simply took my breath away. Although they narrowly missed making my top seven for 2007, I won't soon forget how captivating each of these singular sensations was:
Harriet Harris - The Glass Menagerie (Guthrie, Minneapolis, MN) and Old Acquaintance (American Airlines Theatre, New York, NY)
Saycon Sengbloh - The Color Purple (Broadway Theatre, New York, NY)
Bebe Neuwirth – Chicago (Ambassador Theatre, New York, NY)
Chazz Palminteri – A Bronx Tale (Walter Kerr Theatre, New York, NY)
Vanessa Redgrave – The Year of Magical Thinking (Booth Theatre, New York, NY)
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York, NY)
Martha Plimpton – Cymbeline (Lincoln Center at the Vivian Beaumont, New York, NY)
Kevin Kline – Cyrano de Bergerac (Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York, NY)
Andrea Martin – Young Frankenstein (Hilton Theatre, New York, NY)
Christopher Fitzgerald – Young Frankenstein (Hilton Theatre, New York, NY)
Kerry Butler – Xanadu (Helen Hayes Theatre, New York, NY)
David Pittu – Is He Dead? (Lyceum Theatre, New York, NY)
Yasen Peyenkov – The Diary Of Anne Frank (Steppenwolf, Chicago, IL)
With the addition of these thirteen, I’ve singled out twenty consummate performances that were singularly sensational. Each of these performers has my utmost respect and appreciation, and I look forward to the opportunity to see them perform another day.
This is Steve On Broadway (SOB).
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Labels: Andrea Martin, Bebe Neuwirth, Chazz Palminteri, Frank Langella, Harriet Harris, Kevin Kline, Martha Plimpton, Saycon Sengbloh, SOB's 7 Singular Sensations of '07, Vanessa Redgrave
posted by Steve On Broadway (SOB) @ Monday, December 31, 2007
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