Scariest Moment in a Musical- Page 5

[DefyingPopular]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 4:01pm

I have to say, the big bobblehead type wiz o mania things in Wicked are quite weird.
When i was little and saw Les Mis, i was petrified of the gun shots also, as someone mentioned earlier.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:27pm

Not a musical, but drama.

THE PILLOWMAN.

The first scene in the top stage with the drilling made me cry. I'm a real horror movie guy, but I couldn't take it. I LOST it. Ask C is for company, he found it amusing.

[WickedOne2]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:43pm

The Pillowman did scare me ... back to the topic:

Phantom -- when the chandelier drops
Blood Brothers -- gunshots at the end (for risk of spoiling it I won't say more)
Cabaret -- the ending

[rflpfl2]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 5:45pm

The Pillowman had by far some very scary moments- I actually heard people yelp at the performance when Katurian goes into his old room and his brother pops up after he thinks he's dead from under the matress- crazy disturbing.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:08pm

Yes, The Pillowman.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:31pm

DefyingPopular --- those big bobblehead type wiz o mania things in Wicked...

...are called Hammer-Heads. They ARE disturbing. They're in the original Baum book "The Wizard of Oz"... and they look just like that in the illustrations. Dorothy and her three friends fight them off on their way to see Glinda toward the end.

[DefyingPopular]

Posted: 12/16/05 at 6:37pm

Thanks for the name...
Sorta off topic, but Wicked related, and it's scary, did anyone ever see the laserdisc version of the 'Wizard Of Oz'? Where the Wicked Witch (elphaba i guess..) appears in the mirror when dorothy is standing in the bathroom? The witch and dorothy scream and then it fades to black? It sort of reminds me of the scene in which Elphaba comes out of the mirrored closet...
Anyways, that scene of the WoO scared me for life.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/17/05 at 4:15am

Parade- the lynching scene.

[ruthiefan_felix]

Posted: 12/17/05 at 9:44am

For me... I've never seen a musical which actualy scares me... WiW is pretty funny... and for me Chitty is like a pantomime! But I have to say Woman In Black is the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life! I was sitting in the 3rd row in the middle of the stalls alone.... I was shaking SO badly at end of Act 2 that I could hardly stand up to applause! And the end of the curtain call when the face reappeared... that was bad too.... then i was waiting outside the stagedoor and (for those who've been) it's black and dark anbd windy ... it was scary....

[IsolatingAge]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 12:17pm

I agree with the whistle in Sweeny Todd and the lynching in Parade
Also when Tony gets shot at the end of West Side Story.
That gets me everytime. I always think "Oh yay the lovers are reunited, maybe he won't get shot this time."
But he always does.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 12:41pm

Barbara Cook shrieking "Witch! Witch!" as her chair levitates ten feet into the air as a wall of fire erupts between her and Carrie. Carrie turns around to face the audience, revealing both hands aflame, then...
"I am not afraid of you at all,
I have nothing left to lose,
I have power I can use,
And nothing you can say or do,
Will ever stop me again..."
Carrie turns her back to the audience and vanishes into the darkness, a pin spotlight centers on Barbara Cook's horrified expression and she appears to be a floating head in the vast darkness as the fire wall slowly burns below her. The act ends in complete silence as the curtain slowly falls.

I saw it with my own eyes, apparently the chair effect did not work at the majority of performances on Broadway.

from CARRIE, of course.


A Good Nightmare Comes So Rarely,
P genre

Posted: 12/18/05 at 2:30pm

The ending of Cabaret seems horrifying

Jekyll and Hyde- the transformation and Lucy's death

Wicked- the monkeys and the Wiz O Mania things. The screech of Madame Morrible's "WICKED WITCH"

[Anne_here]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 3:18pm

The original Witchita production of JANE EYRE had one of the scariest, creepiest moments on stage I've ever seen.

[BNN]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 5:20pm

I saw a high school production of Sweeney Todd at the ITC at Nebraska over the summer and the, as I like to call it, Oven Dance was horrifying. It was the first time I've heard an audience actually scream at something in a show. Yikes.

[TabooWickedFan]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 5:25pm

yes the ending of Cabaret was entirely creepy, like the goosebump creepy. Ah i miss that show.

[HighlyUnrealistic]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 5:35pm

I was really scared when the Beast was transformed in Beauty and the Beast. Granted...I was about 7 at the time. But still.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 7:40pm

I have got to agree with the ending of the Revival of Caberet.

Just made your mouth open up and gape.