Survivor: 50 Performances You Should See LIVE
As part of a competition here at B5Media, we’re trying to come up with lists – namely, lists of 50 that fit the theme of our blog. I think I’ve got the easiest one of all: my beat is the performing arts, so I can come up with lots of things. 50 Best Plays; 50 Best Dancers; 50 Best Theatres…the ideas are infinite.
But let’s make it useful. Let’s make it “the 50 Performances You Should See Live”, and then you can print them out and check them off as they happen (or as they’ve already happened). I’m also going to divide them, sort of, by genre.
Because while I’m a fan of the arts on the tube, there’s something about being there, hearing the performers actually breathe, that makes it special. And to feel the music, rather than just hear it…
Here we go:
10 Plays:
- Hamlet
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- A Raisin in the Sun
- The Homecoming
- Radio Golf
- Osage County
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
- A Servant of Two Masters
- Faustus
- Cyrano de Bergerac
10 Musicals
- RENT
- The Lion King
- Urinetown
- Gypsy
- Cabaret
- Hello, Dolly
- Xanadu
- Chicago
- Wicked
- Phantom of the Opera
10 Musical Works to Hear Live
- Hallelujah Chorus
- 1812 Overture
- Schubert’s Mass in G
- Mozart’s Requiem
- Chopin’s Nocturne
- Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra
- Leonard Bernstein’s “Requiem”
- Philip Glass
- Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
- Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6
10 Dancers to See
- Bill T. Jones
- Heidi Latsky
- Savion Glover
- Ethan Steifel
- Maximiliano Guerra
- Nora Stephens
- Nancy Stark Smith
- Li Chiao-Ping
- Jin-Wen Yu
- Joe Goode
10 Performances That Defy Categorization
- Washington Square Park (NYC)
- Goat Island Project (Chicago)
- Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (Chicago)
- Red Herrings (Madison, WI)
- Bread & Puppet Theatre
- Burning Man
- Dell Arte
- Anything by Cirque du Soleil
- Laurie Anderson
- Corpus Delicti
I wish I could say that this was a hard list to create, but really, it wasn’t. This was literally off the top of my head. With it really being this easy…is there any reason we aren’t out there supporting the arts all the time?
What did I miss? Let me know what you think should or shouldn’t be on the list!
9 Comments
Les Miserables. I personally think it’s a much better performance to see live than Phantom. Love Phantom, but Les Mis was better.
hmmm. Thing is, my kids have seen both, and they liked Phantom better. I liked Les Mis, but I think that Phantom’s themes are more common.
musicals…
I saw Ms. Saigon and Phantom. Thought they were both better than Chicago. You forgot CATS as well.
performances…
Do you consider still art installations? Anything Dale Chihuli
I suppose Phantom is also more ’spectacular’ than Les Mis. But when I saw them both I was in my late teens, and Les Mis was just SUCH a better show in general. Prior to seeing them, I liked Phantom better, but afterward, Les Mis took over the top spot.
*shrug* to each his/her own, right?
I am glad that Cirque made the list. I love their shows.
Geez no Foxy Veronica’s…damn I think we at least defy catagorization
I love that Bread and Puppet Theater made it on your list. I have never seen them live but will one day. I love what they do –there just aren’t enough puppeteers in the world anymore.
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