Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
BroadwayBuff4Life
Understudy Joined: 8/11/07
#1Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 1:34pmHey! I was just wondering if anyone remembered it? I was trying to explain it to one of my friends interested in seeing the show and could only remember the bluetooth comment. Thanks!
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#2Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 2:03pm
Hello and welcome to Rawk of Ages.
I'm David Coverdale of Whitesnake, and I invite you to an evening of musical debauchery and decadence.
Just a reminder that flash photography is strictly prohibited. Unless, of course, you're really hot and willing to show us your breast.
Further more, please silence all cellphones. Text messaging during the show makes you look like a douche-bag. And, if you have one of those "bluetooth" thingys in your ear... please, c'mon. You look like a dick.
Lastly, in case of fire please refrain from singing Deaf Leopards "Pyromania" as we couldn't get the rights to any of their music.
Thank you and enjoy having your face melted.
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That's just off the top of my head, so I'm sure I may have messed a few things up.
Updated On: 1/16/10 at 02:03 PM
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
BroadwayBuff4Life
Understudy Joined: 8/11/07
#5Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 3:41pm
Not really...
It's crude & disgusting.
BroadwayBuff4Life
Understudy Joined: 8/11/07
#6Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 3:42pmOkay, TheatreFan, I guess you are one of the VERY few considering both times I have seen the show the audience was in histerics throughout the entire thing...
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#7Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 4:00pm
Seriously, it slays the audience night after night.
CRUDE and DISGUSTING? Really?
Updated On: 1/16/10 at 04:00 PM
#8Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 4:08pmI guess some people just don't have a sense of humor...
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#9Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 6:42pm
"Okay, TheatreFan, I guess you are one of the VERY few considering both times I have seen the show the audience was in histerics throughout the entire thing..."
That speaks volumes about the audience.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#10Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 6:51pm
Are you pretentious idiots serious? It's a goddamn PRESHOW ANNOUNCEMENT. It's very funny and fits with the overall theme of the show. Were any of you complaining about Legally Blonde's preshow announcement, with the valley girl voice raving about how hot the conductor was?
I'll never understand not only why the elitists on these boards bitch time and again about the serving-drinks-in-the-seats thing this show does, but why they have no problem with other gimmicks shows employ to immerse the audience in the world of the show, like the Hair cast climbing on seats or the Eugene O'Neill house being completely transformed into a 1970s Nigerian nightclub? Is it because people just don't like the show, or is it because there really is no such thing as the "sanctity" of a Broadway theatre? Aside from something like the Shubert being razed to make way for a strip joint, I really don't see why people get so uptight about what is appropriate or is not for a Broadway theatre.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#11Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 6:57pm
Just a rough guess on my part, but I suspect those who find this announcement "crude and disgusting" probably wouldn't like the show either -- and if they're smart they won't go, but enjoy Mary Poppins instead.
I love it when the announcement sets the tone of the show. My favorite was still at a production of Do I Hear A Waltz at Pasadena Playhouse when the entire announcement was in Italian. But you could still pick out the English "cell phone", "candy wrappers", etc.
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#12Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 7:19pm
I love the ROA announcement, and I loved the Legally Blonde announcement. Also, the new In The Heights announcement with Lin is great too.
But, it amazes me how insanely uptight some folks can be. Get the sticks out yo butts!
lstbutifulgrl2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
#13Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 7:25pmJP, what's the ITH announcement?
"Sometimes on the strip, the dreams you come in with, ain't the dreams you leave with" ~Rock of Ages
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#14Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 7:39pm
"My favorite was still at a production of Do I Hear A Waltz at Pasadena Playhouse when the entire announcement was in Italian. But you could still pick out the English "cell phone", "candy wrappers", etc."
Sounds just like Light In The Piazza...
I think it's a fitting and funny pre-show.
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JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#15Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 7:48pm
"JP, what's the ITH announcement?"
It's pretty much like the old one, except now it's Lin instead of the female voice (Doreen Mantalvo, I always thought?). He's all "Yo, ...". Then, of course, he repeats it in Spanish.
lstbutifulgrl2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
#16Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 8:00pm
it's been so long since i've seen ITH... 
"Sometimes on the strip, the dreams you come in with, ain't the dreams you leave with" ~Rock of Ages
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
#17Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 8:17pmThat's funny TheatreDiva. I saw an early performance of Light in the Piazza and I honestly don't remember that one. I'm thinking I saw the other one before that so maybe it didn't have the same impact, but was the announcement in Italian at LITP from the start?
#18Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 8:33pmI'm not a fan of ROA but I think that pre-show announcement fits the tone of the show very well.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#19Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 8:40pm
The Light in the Piazza one is pretty funny, I'm not sure how long it had been there for but it was 'preserved' on the TV broadcast so you can still check it out .
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#20Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 9:12pmI haven't seen rock of ages, but I enjoyed that.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
Mystic Pasta
Understudy Joined: 2/19/09
#21Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 9:14pmThat preshow announcement is hilarious. I think one of the oddest inventions of the last decade is the bluetooth ear piece. It works for Captain Kirk on Star Trek but looks ridiculous on investment bankers in theaters.
tommigyrl5
Stand-by Joined: 5/13/03
#22Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 10:54pmOK...that made me REALLY want to see the show. lol
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#23Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 11:32pm
"It works for Captain Kirk on Star Trek but looks ridiculous on investment bankers in theaters."
Some people prefer bluetooths to holding cell phones to their ears. Who cares? Find a better hobby than criticizing people who prefer this "invention" to normality. Who are you?
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#24Rock of Ages Preshow Announcement
Posted: 1/16/10 at 11:45pm
I think one of the oddest inventions of the last decade is the bluetooth ear piece
Odder than a scale that sends a tweet every time you weigh yourself?
Some people prefer bluetooths to holding cell phones to their ears
Those people tend to avoid tickets if they do it while driving.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Updated On: 1/16/10 at 11:45 PM
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