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Years and years ago, I saw Mary Tyler Moore on Broadway in Whose Life Is It Anyway? It is the story of a for sculptor, now paraplegic, suing to have life support removed do she can be allowed to die.
There is only one set--the hospital room, and MTM was in a hospital bed the entire time. She was amazing.
Interesting that almost all of the posts, save two or three, are about musicals. I've enjoyed many of the musicals mentioned in this thread, but I wouldn't say they were "most impactful" to my life. They lightened two hours of the evening, but didn't haunt my mind during the following week or months. Dramas do that.
Does no one have dramas to mention? I won't mention Shakespeare since many people have taken disdain for the Bard to new heights. But:
No Eugene O'Neill? No Tennessee Williams? No Samuel Becket? No August Wilson? No Arthur Miller? No GB Shaw?
Fiddler on the Roof - for the same reasons the OP mentioned
Come From Away - I've always lived and worked near NYC. 9/11 was an event that I will never forget. Come From Away reminded me that good things can happen even during the most tragic circumstances.
Recognizing that there are other cities with live serious drama and musical theater, I have titled the thread to have U.S., London and Toronto coverage. Today I saw Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles, a movie. Don't worry, I am not off-topic.
I saw that musical on Broadway in 1968 or 1969 with my grandmother, when I was eleven or twelve. I was in Sunday Jewish religious school then. I remember even then being extremely moved by the scenes of traditional Jewish life in a mythical Ukraine village, Anatefka being senselessly destroyed by the Czar's decree and pogromists. The purposeless destruction of ways of life and cultures that hurt no one and demand nothing other than to be left alone has always moved me.
Today's movie was an epic about the creation of Fiddler, including some tunes left of the cutting-room floor.
Other examples?
Fiddler on the Roof - for the same reasons the OP mentioned
Come From Away - I've always lived and worked near NYC. 9/11 was an event that I will never forget. Come From Away reminded me that good things can happen even during the most tragic circumstances.
I totally forgot about Come From Away and that would go into my list. I also remember the event and it was a warm-hearted example of international and inter-people cooperation.
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