Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:13pmoh, the death stare.
#3re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:15pm
Remind me of the death stare?
Most disturbing moment: every moment the curtain was up at the Winter Garden when CATS played.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#4re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:18pm
Not Broadway, but I was quite disturbed at Emily Skinner molesting herself during My Life with Albertine...
During the same show, it's also quite alarming to have her give you a crotch shot while she sings the line "I have felt on my thighs the raw meat of your love my love"
*shudder*
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#5re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:35pmMandy Patinkin doing blackface in The Wild Party.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#6re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:56pmany moment ---ever----when cats is being performed. it just freaks me out.
Was that a fat joke?
#7re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 10:58pm
BROOKLYN THE MUSICAL
Need I say more?
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#8re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:25pm
Suzanne Somers' camel toe
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Updated On: 7/22/05 at 11:25 PM
#9re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:27pm'Destruction' from Carrie.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#10re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:28pm
"Tomb scene - blinding flashes from cameras - Adam breaks character and glares at the audience. Deborah had to physically turn his head back to get him back into the scene. "
Eesh that is creepy.
HAHA, Margo!
#11re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:29pmor as I like to call 'em, moose feet.
Matthew Rask
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/2/04
#12re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:29pmDavid Hasselhoff playing Jekyll & Hyde...
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#13re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:45pmWhat about Sebastian Bach playing Jekyll and Hyde?
#14re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/21/05 at 11:47pmHasselhoof made Bach look like Laurence freakin' Olivier.
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#15re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:13am
Aldonza's rape in MAN OF LA MANCHA
The advancing storm trooper puppets in THE PRODUCERS
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#16re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 12:45am
"Tomorrow Belongs To Me" in Cabaret, as well as the final scene from the revival
Roxie and Velma at the end of Chicago talking about how they are evidence of what a great country America is
The killings of Sarah and Coalhouse in Ragtime
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#17re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 2:02am
the whole fueral scene in EVITA
a play (not a musical) called 'the goat- or who is sylvia'- WEIRD!! mye eyeballs were popping outta my head as i was reading the script!
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#18re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 2:03am
(Play) The last moment of streetcar. Stanley comforting Stella for something that he was the cause of.
Ive never seen it live, but I have a feeling Mama Rose's bow after the audience has stopped applauding must be chilling.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#19re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 3:06amThe moment Melanie Griffith set her foot on a Broadway stage !
#20re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 4:10amParadice's rant on American society in BKLYN sorta creeped me out. She was INTENSE, man!
#21re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 4:30am
no contest... the video of kennedy being assassinated projected over lee harvey oswald in, what else, "assassins." many of the shows moments i was prepared for, having read the libretto many times and treasuring the '91 cast recording. the video thing i was *not* expecting and i haven't seldom felt that kind of shock and sickness in a theatre before. a real theatre moment, affecting you the way theatre is supossed to... i felt something very raw and very painful as i gasped through "something just broke." what a beautiful show.
also, that last moment in cabaret with the emcee... well, it's shocking and sad and sick. another memory that will stay with me for a loooong time.
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#22re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 8:34am
Isn't the cannibalism in Sweeney a little disturbing to anyone else?
Also, I've always found the part in "Success" from Ragtime to be a little hard to take when the man asks Tateh, "How much for the girl?"
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
Updated On: 7/22/05 at 08:34 AM
#23re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 9:40amWhen I was a kid, I saw a production of OLIVER. Bill Sykes beating Nancy to death really disturbed me. Seems tame compared to some of the serious responses on here, huh?
#24re: Most Disturbing Moment in a Broadway Musical?
Posted: 7/22/05 at 10:22am
Margaret White chasing Carrie and stuffing her in the trap door to pray. While singing, yet!
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