Shiver Inducing Songs/Performers

[Bob30]

Not many performers have given me shivers during a performance but a few have managed to:

Sweeney Todd Company - Final Ballad of Sweeney Todd

Nikki Davis-Jones - Defying Gravity
Gina Beck - Thank Goodness

Nikki Evans - Easy Terms/ Tell Me Its Not True

What are yours?

[MusicalBoy]

Imelda Staunton's "That's...all...very...well...dear" after 'Epiphany' in Sweeney Todd.

Niki Evans singing 'Tell me it's not true'

Samantha Spiro's reprise of 'Not a day goes by'

John Owen-Jones' rendition of 'Bring Him Home' (and this was in concert, resulting in a mid-show standing ovation)

The final reprise of 'Godspeed Titanic'

Haley Flaherty in Matilda singing the final verse of 'My House'

[Bob30]

Forgot to include Niki Evans' Tell Me Its Not True, I've never herd a version with so much passion and emotion in it!

[jamiekennywicked]

Hannah Waddingham
Alexia Khadime
Rosalie Craig in Ragtime WOW
Audra McDonald
Emily Skinner

[bob8rich]

Jonathan Williams - Bring Him Home in Les Mis last August. "Astonishing" does not come close to doing his vocal performance justice.

Bernadette Peters - In Buddy's Eyes in Follies last November.

Bernadette Peters - Losing My Mind in Follies last November.

Linda Eder - A New Life in Jekyll & Hyde in 1997. Her performance literally stopped the show!

Alice Ripley - virtually every second of her performance in Next To Normal all 3 times I saw her playing Diana!

[ClapYo'Hands]

Always the overture from The Phantom of the Opera and the chandelier rising.

Already mentioned, but John Owen-Jones - anything he has ever done in Les Misèrables or The Phantom of the Opera - I really do think he is the West End's greatest performer and, incidentally, I just saw him onstage tonight for the tenth time.

Imelda Staunton's "Coz I love you, I'd be twice the wife she was!"

Magic Fingers and Lionheart in Betty Blue Eyes.

The house de-constructing in An Inspector Calls.

Paulo Szot singing "This Nearly Was Mine" in South Pacific.

The title song in Love Never Dies.

The end of Act I of Hair (and it wasn't even a show I liked that much).

[KermitTheFrog]

"Imelda Staunton's "Coz I love you, I'd be twice the wife she was!"

This, even the thought of it gives me chills, need to go back and see this again.

[yankeefan7]

Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde) -
Lost in the Darkness/The Way Back & Confrontation

Aaron Tveitt (Next To Normal) - I'm Alive

Betty Buckley (Cats) - Memory

[iMartynn]

Not a Day Goes By by Bernadette Peters and Ladies Who Lunch by Patti LuPone!

[Outoftowner2]

Ted Neeley "Gethsemane"