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Across the Fence:  what PLAY(s) have you seen that you really enjoyed  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 2:42:25 PM
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i love OUR TOWN .. i've seen several versions of it. simple but powerful!
i saw HAIR at the National Theatre in D.C. .. WOWZER! and i liked CATS a lot .. saw a national production of it also.. wonderfully done.
i ADORE our Kentucky Repertory Theatre about an hour's drive from our home! Hank and i always have season tickets .. we even purchased two front seats for the theatre we like it so much!
Actually, thinking about it . .i'd say some of my more memorable plays are the ones that honey hunk and i were in when we lived in the mountains of colorado.
what have been some of your fav plays?
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 2:49:08 PM
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I enjoy just about anything live on stage! That's (especially)including High School and Jr High productions. What can I say, I'm a real cheap date! If the weather holds, we are going to a HS production of "Oklahoma" Saturday night!
Sharon
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 2:50:48 PM
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Well, I liked "Death of a Salesman". We're pretty lucky here in Louisville to have Actor's Theater. I've seen many fantastic plays there. Jon Jory used to be the managing director, and his father, Victor Jory, would occasionally come here to star in plays. He was great in that one. Then he gave a talk at the Speed Museum here and answered questions afterward about his years in Hollywood! I had an old copy of "Gone WIth the Wind" with color pics from the movie he was nice enough to autograph. I also enjoyed Ken Jenkins in Hamlet(I was 21 and he wasn't much older). There have been numerous actors who started at Actor's Theater and went on to 'bigger' things. But there's nothing like a live performance. That one last dark moment before the curtain comes up.
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
3659 Posts |
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ivmeer
True Blue Farmgirl
409 Posts
Amanda
Pawtucket
RI
USA
409 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 2:54:51 PM
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Hiya, Frannie!
We live in Chicago, and we're lucky to go to Steppenwolf (they have lots of discount tickets available for $20 apiece). The last really great play I saw was August, Osage County. |
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 2:59:10 PM
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Steel Magnolias, A Chorus Line, Sound of Music, On Golden Pond, A Christmas Carol (at the Guthrie)and Phantom of the Opera.
Just to name a few. My Mom and I go together and have a great time.
I am trying to talk her into going to see "My Fair Lady" next.
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downbranchroad
True Blue Farmgirl
374 Posts
Joy
Southern
KY
USA
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 3:11:11 PM
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I have seen Sanders Family Christmas , twice, and loved it just as much the second time around. We go to Cumberland Playhouse in Crossville TN. I sure wish we had a theater close by.
Appalachian Girl
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laluna
True Blue Farmgirl
295 Posts
New York
USA
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 3:21:41 PM
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One of my favorites is Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest...makes me laugh! 
I also really enjoy our local summer Shakespeare in the Park productions.
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 3:26:33 PM
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I haven't been to a Broadway play in a few years, but I used to go pretty often. I enjoyed CATS and 'Phantom of the Opera'. I like musicals and dancing. I would love to be able to dance like that! Dancers have the most beautiful bodies. I also enjoyed 'The Producers' when Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick starred in it....very funny! I love Nathan Lane when I saw him in the movie with Robin Williams in 'Birdcage'. I thought he stole the movie...histerical! I saw 'The Producers' two weeks after 9/11, and it was sad and poignant...everyone wanted to support New York City and try to go on.
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Edited by - junkjunkie on Jan 30 2008 3:29:30 PM |
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MereOnceMoore
Farmgirl in Training
33 Posts
Meredith
IL
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 4:02:41 PM
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The Fantasticks is one of my all time favorites!
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 4:10:35 PM
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Oscar Wilde always makes me laugh! In fact, one of my favorite plays is An Ideal Husband. I saw it when I lived in London and it's like it was yesterday. The Ensemble Theater in Cincinnati does wonderful plays, most recently Opus, which won a Tony. Great show if anyone gets to see it.
Jealous of you, Amanda, getting to go to the Steppenwolf. Some of my favorite actors have come from that theater (John Malcovich, one) My old high school beau, Damian Arnold is currently performing with the Actors Workshop Theater (soon to be Redtwist Theater) in Chicago. He's a HOOT!! and a HALF!!! We dated while I was at boarding school and again in London while he was at RADA.
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NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 4:35:37 PM
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I HATED cats but have loved everything else I have seen. My family was really into the arts so I have seen tons but a few of my favorites were Phantom of the Opera, Fiddler on the roof, les misserables, miss Saigon, etc, etc. I was also in all my high school musicals!
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italianchildhood
True Blue Farmgirl
172 Posts
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Posted - Jan 30 2008 : 4:57:54 PM
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I had never seen Fiddler on the Roof and I saw it recently and really liked it. My son liked it too, every once in a while he'll start singing, "Tradition! Tradition."
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
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Posted - Jan 31 2008 : 06:40:16 AM
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i use to help costume the youth productions and got free tickets for my effort. the show i enjoyed the most was MidSummer's Night Dream. it was wonderfuly casted and so funny! it also helps that as a costumer i read the plays before i get to the show. i would love to see Phantom on the stage...i watch the video every couple of months, but it would be so amazing to see it live.
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
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Posted - Feb 01 2008 : 12:17:01 PM
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I love love love Putnam County Spelling Bee. Saw it at the Water Tower Theatre in Chicago last year and it was a hoot!! (Great little theatre, too; not a bad seat in the house.) We couldn't stop laughing. And all the men in the audience were laughing out loud -- which says a great deal. It was the best musical I'd seen in YEARS.
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Farmtopia
True Blue Farmgirl
1465 Posts
Zan
New York
New York
USA
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2008 : 3:12:24 PM
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My favorites have been Kismet, Annie and Phantom of the Opera--which we saw at Her Majesty's Theater in London where it's been playing since the day it opened. Fantastic!
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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