Playbill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share ten of the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience. This week we spotlight the choices of three-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn, who was most recently on Broadway as Fantine in the revival of Les Misérables and who will play a limited engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency March 6-10.
"Inspiring. I saw the show when I first moved to NYC. After the performance, I went straight to the box office and bought a ticket for another performance."
Fiona Shaw in
Happy Daysat BAM.
"I know it's not Broadway, but it was one of the best, most awe-inspriring, funny, devastating performances I have seen in the last several years — and she did it while buried up to her waist and then neck!"
"Sometimes an actor can channel a writer like no one else, and that was true of Jason Robards in a Eugene O'Neill play. Always one of my favorite actors on stage and screen, I feel privileged to have seen this performance."
Sinead Cusak and
Derek Jacobi in
Cyrano de Bergerac.
"I also saw this when I first moved to NYC and sat in the center of the third row. There are moments in those performances, looks on the actors' faces that are burned into my brain forever. I wept my way through the last act."
"My parents took me to this production when I was a child — it was my first Broadway show. I will never forget the experience of it. I can still see Richard Kiley in the death scene. I think that is when the theatre bug bit me."
