The first night Ethel Merman took over Dolly Levi role and let her newspaper drop from her face at the end of the "Call on Dolly" number, the audience GAVE HER A STANDING OVATION!
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
My one theatre teacher showed my class the tape of The Man Who Came to Dinner last year, and Lewis J. Stalden, who played Max Sheridan's friend Banjo, literally pounced onto the stage, began chasing around the house maid, kissed her and just announced his presence. There was no special trick or anything to it, it was just pure theatrical energy and presence. It was by far the funniest and best entrance I've ever seen...and that was just on a tape, too.
Mrs. Dolly Levi has a smashing first entrance on the horse drawn cart, dropping her newspaper and - of course, in Act 2 when she appears atop the stairs at the Harmonia Gardens - amazing entrance moment...
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing
Anyway, did you know that when HELLO, DOLLY! was out of town, the Dolly Levi character made her Act II entrance BEFORE Harmonia Gardens Scene; which made her entrance there seem anti-climatic?
Writers soon the error of their ways and re-wrote so Dolly's first appearance in Act II would be at the Harmonia Gardens.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Didn't a character in Sixteen Wounded make his entrance by jumping through a glass window?
Anyway, one of my favorite entrances (and openings, period) is Curly coming in and singing "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" a capella. Simple and appropriate, and very strange for its time.
Michael Leon-Wooley as the homeless man in "Little Shop" scared the poop outta me. I did not see him there at all.
Frank-n-furter in the revival. Similar to the movie but different enough to be creative and cool. Along the same lines, Eddie's entrace in the revival, too. Through the wall? Pretty neat.
Gasp! How could I forget Maureen's amidst the warming glow of her raging motorcycle headlight?
Fosca's slow descent down the stairwell as Clara and Georgio write to one another.
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"Nothing is an accident, We are free to have it all, We are what we want to be, It's in ourselves to rise or fall!!" - "Fortune Favors the Brave" from Aida - the love that never died
LuvUrBatBoy...when I saw Bat Boy it was in theater in the round...and a VERY tiny theater...like...50 people...so when bat boy was crawling doen the isle RIGHT next to me my friends and I were scared...we had never really heard of the show beside listening to the cd...
In Phantom of the Opera...is the Phantom's entrance with the mirror?...I've seen ot twice but I'm having a brain fart.
In the musical Superman, he flies in to thwart a bank robbery &, as I recall , lifts & throws a car off stage. He than breaks into the song "Doing Good "
ooo, just thought of anoth entrance i adore. elizas last entrance in my fair lady
""the gays love their presents. just wave something shiny in front of their faces, you can get whatever you want. Thats how we got manhattan from the gay indians" -Karen (W&G)"
the chorus in Taboo, the creep through the set and suddenly the stage is awash with freaks singing and dancing, so cool. and leigh bowrys entance in the bathroom stall