Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
For me it would be the ending of Cabaret, especially the revival. For those of you who haven't seen it, here's a brief summary.
Cliff has just left on a train to Paris, escaping the Nazis. Then the Emcee came on, still imploring us to forget everything bad.
"In here, life... is beautiful," he said, painfully whispering the 'beautiful.'
"The girls...are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful."
And he gestured; the lights focused on where the band should have been. But there wasn't any. Yet the music continued, the wall in front of the set fell away.
The set disappeared; the cast stood, shadowy and dim.
And then there was light. Not ordinay light, but a stark white light, one so pure yet so alone that you couldn't tell if it was a heaven or another place that you were seeing.
The increasingly discordant music built to a terrifying roar; the only sounds were an ominous rumbling that seemed to crawl inside you and a violin shrieking.
The violin stopped. Al you could see was shadows and white light. All you could hear was the rumbling.
Then there was silence.
"Auf weidersehen," the Emcee said.
"A bientot....."
Then, slowly, he took off his coat. He was wearing the clothes of a prisoner, a concentration camp prisoner.
The drumroll sounded. The cymbals clashed. And then there was darkness.
So, after that lengthy essay, what's the scariest moment for you?
Updated On: 11/28/05 at 08:12 PM
DAMN. THAT wasn't in the movie, which after seeing for the first time two months ago left me confused and not liking it.
Featured Actor Joined: 10/10/05
I'd have to agree, Emcee4ever, that THAT is a very scary, creepy moment.
I'd have to add, the chandelier falling in Phantom, especially for first time viewers who are young. I first saw the Phantom tour in 5th grade, and was terrified when the chandelier fell. That, and I was really, really scared of the Phantom in general. The creepy music, his actions during the musical, gave me the willies!
The beginning of Chicago always creeps me out. For some reason I feel Bob Fosse's presence and expect him to pop up in front of me.
The scene just before the "Bye Bye Life" scene of All That Jazz (when Joe Gideon leaves his hospital bed) is also pretty damned scary.
When the Reflection Bride falls through the mirror in the Phantom of the Opera. It gets me everytime.
I was terrified the moment Phantom started as well, but for entirely different reasons.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
"I'd have to add, the chandelier falling in Phantom, especially for first time viewers who are young. I first saw the Phantom tour in 5th grade, and was terrified when the chandelier fell. That, and I was really, really scared of the Phantom in general. The creepy music, his actions during the musical, gave me the willies!"
At the speed the chandelier falls, the entire theatre could be evacuated to Jersey before it hits the floor!
Im really honestly frightend by gunshots so the whole barracade scene in Les Mis made me want to cry, for multiply reasons.
phantom scared me after masquerade and the phantom disappears in the firework, but that show is just a great creepy drama!
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
David Hasselhoff in JEKYLL AND HYDE. Gave me nightmares for weeks.
lol spider
Les mis...just cause I HATE gun/bomb sounds.
The face of the phantom got to me when I was younger too.
The whistle in Sweeney Todd.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/1/05
I agree with the chandelier, bride and gunshots... can't say I've seen Cabaret on stage (I was only, like, 9 when the revival was out), but that sounds creepy and amazing. I'd have to say the train in WiW scared me pretty bad... it seemed like it was headed straight for my face, haha.
If anyone saw Robert Wilson's musical of "Woyzeck" tour the county, that show was creepy from beginning to end.
Just buy the concept album titled "Blood Money." It'll give you a good idea what the whole show was like.
the end of miss saigon. creepy and sad.
"The whistle in Sweeney Todd."
That was creepy and hurt my ears
However the ending of Sweeney Todd is very creepy when Toby goes all insane.
why is the end of saigon creepy?
the end of sweeney is scary to me too.
depending on how its done nancy's death in oliver can scare me.
havent seen it yet, but form the recording i could see anne in Woman in White be scary.
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
Wow, the ending of Cabaret definitely sounds scary and jolting.
I have to say that the childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is absoulty frightening! The way he shreaks..." chiiilldreen"
very scary!
In My Life.
The whole show = scary.
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
This one is more startling than frightening, but at the end of Ragtime when Colehouse is shot
I'm going to have to agree with Emcee4ever. I didn't see the revival, but we did that in school my freshman year, and the ending was creepy even then.
I second the RAGTIME. I was expecting something to happen when he left the building, and in the back of my mind I knew it was going to happen, but somehow the way it happens (or at least was staged) startled me.
The opening scene of BAT BOY is scary.
The Phantom of the opera, when, in the beginning, the cover is taken off the chandilier and there is a loud bang and the organ starts to play loudly...
I was in the 4th grade, and It took me up until the time the movie came out to fully get over the fear that was the Phantom of the Opera. Not to mention when he first appears to Christine in the mirror, couldn't look into my mirror at night for years
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