Best Character Entrance?- Page 3
Best Character Entrance?
#50re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:36pmI have to agree with Mythus and say Roger Debri.
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#51re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 8:38pm
Definitely Mama Rose stomping down the aisle
Glinda coming down in the bubble
and finally seeing Maureen in Rent
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#52re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 9:29pmthe coolest is glinda in wicked, but the best is maureen in rent
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#53re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 10:14pm
in rocky horror's revival
brad and janet- walking out of the black and white movie
riff raff- i had no idea he was on stage, much unless center stage until he started singing
and dr.f'n'f the elevator lowering him in silhoette (sp?) ala velma kelly
speaking of which chicago- the entrances of billy and velma
out of wonder how did ameris enter in aida?
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#54re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:02pm
I adore Tracy's entrance in HS, when the curtain opens, the lights come up on the bed and her eyes pop open. Fabulous.
#55re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:04pm
Oh yea forgot about Maureen 
I can't see how she could draw more attention to her entrance than riding in on a motercycle completely cutting off the song...
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#56re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:11pmIdina's entrance in off-bway wild party
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#57re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:19pmI agree with the Emcee and Carmen Ghia and have to add Marilyn in Taboo. Ohhhh my lord.
#58re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:28pm
Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees always offers a lot of creativity
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#59re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:31pmi dont know about entrance, but i know my fav character exit is nathan lane being swallowed by a giant frog in The Frogs, that was great.
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#60re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:32pmdefinitely norma desmond in "sunset".
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#61re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:37pmI think the all-time greatest entrance in musical theatre is Mama Rose in Gypsy. Coming out of the audience is totally original and unexpected. And it was thrilling to see Bernadette Peters make her first entrance through the audience.
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#62re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:38pmmichael crawford getting lowered from the ceiling in a coffin for Dance of the Vampires.
#63re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 11:38pmmichael crawford getting lowered from the ceiling in a coffin for Dance of the Vampires.
#64re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 1:44amMaureen in RENT. She wins. That is all.
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#65re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/20/04 at 2:21am
Rose's entrance in Gypsy is priceless. Perfect, really, especially for the situation and for the character. (I was at the final performance of the recent revival and so many heads were turned to house right for a glimpse of Bernadette. Then came the line and a lengthy and thunderous standing ovation - what a moment!)
Mame's entrance sliding down a banister with the trumpet is something else as well... (I saw a cheap community production where they recreated that moment and the poor woman almost went flying right off the stage into the pit - wish I could have seen Lansbury do it).
#66re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/21/04 at 9:38pm
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Others:
Norma Desmond down the stairs.
Leigh Bowery in the stalls--c'mon it's funny!
Glinda in the bubble.
All the entrances in Rocky Horror revival.
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#67re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/22/04 at 12:56amThe bedroom windows suddenly opening and Mary Martin's exhilerating airborne entrance in Act I of Peter Pan.
#68re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/27/04 at 6:46pmI say the best entrance was when Edna came out after the make over. However it could be that it was Harvey and not the character. (*sighs at missing Harvey*)
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With a stone clutched in his hand
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There will always be perilous waters
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#69re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/27/04 at 6:49pmIn Sixteen Wounded, Mahmoud is thrown through a glass window by a bunch of people on the street. It was phenomonally well-acted by Omar Metwally, and in reality the window was made up of sugar (cool fact i recently stumbled upon)
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#70re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/27/04 at 6:55pmI still love Dolly coming down the staircase at the Harmonia Gardens
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#71re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/27/04 at 7:58pmAs far as musicals are concerned I have to agree with Max appearing suddenly under those newspapers. I'm still amazed by that. My favorite 'entrance' though came in the play "Tea at Five" with Kate Mulgrew at the start of the second act. She suddenly appeared as the older Kate Hepburn and the transformation was so amazing that it seemed to suck the air right out of you. You could hear the audible gasp, followed by applause, from the entire audience.
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#72re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/27/04 at 8:02pmMaureen's motorcycle entrance! It's SO cool! I always forget it's coming when I see the show, and then it's like WAM! you see the blinding light.
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#73re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/27/04 at 8:05pm
princeton's entrance/opening lines in ave q- just real funny- also gary colemans
galinda's entrance in the bubble- sweet! and very galinda
Maureens motercycle entrance along with angel's drag entrance- both classics
and dr.f the elevator lowering him in silhoette
uh yea- thats about it.
#74re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/27/04 at 8:19pmI would have to say the entrance of the animals in The Lion King. I was just blown away, especially since I was on an aisle in the front of the theater. Amazing!
