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eperkins

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joined:5/21/07

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 01:32pm

This time, I'm saying "favorite" rather than "best."

I'll start, with my favorite show of 2012 (which so happens to be on several people's "worst" list): Once.

Runners up: Peter and the Starcatcher, Dogfight.

newintown

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joined:3/3/10

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 01:42pm

One Man, Two Guvnors.

Phillytheatreguy10

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joined:7/22/12

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 01:49pm

Favorites:
*Ghost (I realize people hate it!)
Runners Up
-Virginia Woolf
-Edwin Drood
-Dog Fight

Marianne2

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joined:3/28/08

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 02:01pm

Into the Woods and and Follies because I saw it in January.

"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005 "You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.

little_sally

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joined:1/15/04

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 02:10pm

Peter and the Starcatcher (with One Man, Two Guvnors in second, although I just saw Drood last night and it was so wonderful)

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

Updated On: 11/30/12 at 02:10 PM

TheatreKid3

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joined:3/25/12

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 02:12pm

NEWSIES, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER and ONCE.

I will add that GHOST was better than people give it credit for.

GlindatheGood22

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joined:7/17/07

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 02:15pm

I realized today I didn't see very much traditional theatre this year since I've been so focused on Sleep No More. But I did enjoy Carrie very much, even though the best thing I saw this year was probably Peter and the Starcatcher or Virginia Woolf.

A little more bum ba bum bum ba da bum.

kbritt789

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Swing
joined:6/6/11

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 03:15pm

Peter and the Starcatcher, without a doubt.

mamaleh

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joined:5/11/04

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 03:19pm

FOLLIES -- since 1971 my all-time favorite musical
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER -- for the sheer pleasure its whimsy and magic bring
ONE MAN TWO GUV'NORS - I have never laughed so much in the theater

WiCkEDrOcKS

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joined:6/13/04

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 03:54pm

Play: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Musical: ONCE

Current Avatar: Tony winner Steve Kazee, singing his heart out to absolute perfection in Once, the best new musical of 2012.

macnyc

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joined:7/26/08

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 04:27pm

FOLLIES and NEWSIES (TIE)
ONE MAN TWO GUV'NORS and FALLING (TIE)

jv92

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joined:11/4/05

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 04:37pm

It was truly the year of Edward Albee: WHO'S AFRIAD OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE were my favorites. I also was surprised by how much I really loved GIANT, too.

BTW, next season make sure you head down to the Vineyard to see the new John Kander-Greg Pierce piece, THE LANDING. That's all I'll say about that.

strummergirl

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joined:12/8/09

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 05:01pm

Once and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Updated On: 11/30/12 at 05:01 PM

singaboutlove

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Swing
joined:11/2/12

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 05:03pm

I really loved Dogfight and Once.

Icon: a picture I took of my Merrily We Roll Along Encores! playbill.

emma3386

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Swing
joined:9/8/12

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 07:40pm

Peter and the Starcatcher and Once

kyl3fong2

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joined:3/10/11

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 07:46pm

Newsies!

CATSNYrevival

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joined:3/1/04

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 07:50pm

Newsies for sure with Jesus Christ Superstar a close second. I don't care what anyone else says, I really liked that production and I thought Josh Young was brilliant. I'm still bummed it didn't get recorded.

That's right! Underscore mother-fu@#ers!

Emmaloucbway

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joined:10/16/11

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 08:03pm

Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies, and One Man, Two Guvnors.

"Don't quit while you're ahead." -The Mystery of Edwin Drood

aaronb

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joined:6/3/12

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 08:36pm

DEATH OF A SALESMAN, no contest.

Check out my theater blog, http://www.scribicide.com

AC126748

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joined:7/15/06

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 08:51pm

Both UNCLE VANYAs (Sydeney Theatre Company & SoHo Rep)
TRIBES
VIRGINIA WOOLF

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

Updated On: 11/30/12 at 08:51 PM

kikki327

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joined:9/25/04

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 09:23pm

GHOST. i know people hated it but i thought it was beautiful..definitely one of my favorite musicals.
Newsies and Once are also up there. and i loved Murder in the First at 59E59 (still hopeful for a bway transfer..)

michellek45

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joined:5/20/11

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 10:04pm

Toss-up between Peter and the Starcatcher and Giant, part of the reason being I have a huge fascination with Texas history.

ChanceEncounter

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Stand-by
joined:7/7/12

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 11/30/12 at 10:11pm

The Whale for Shuler's performance alone.

Close Runners-Up
Cyrano
and
Cock

I'm going to see Starcatcher on Wednesday so that may jump in there.

Someone in a Tree2

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joined:10/9/12

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 12/1/12 at 10:23am

DEATH OF A SALESMAN and PETER AND THE STARCATCHER made all the second-rate theater we saw this year worth it. The feeling walking out of the theater after both those shows was something like euphoria.

But it's been years since we saw a new musical that could do the same. (Where oh where is the next BILLY ELLIOTT or NEXT TO NORMAL?)

willep

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joined:9/20/08

Your Favorite Show of 2012
Posted: 12/1/12 at 10:38am

Once/Peter and the Starcatcher