Actors Chewing Gum...ON STAGE!- Page 2

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/29/05 at 7:03pm

Keith Carradine (intentionally) in The Will Rogers Follies

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/29/05 at 7:24pm

Not during a performance, but the Streisand gum chewing on stage story during her audition for I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE is pretty famous...

[Swiftynifty15]

Posted: 7/29/05 at 11:31pm

I think Shoshana chewed gum when she was in Hairspray but it started to upset her stomach, so she stopped.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 7/29/05 at 11:45pm

Jen Barnhart is the best...I am sure it was by mistake, or a character choice...she hardly talks the entire show.

[darkmist115]

Posted: 7/29/05 at 11:52pm

this is weird-- as a frequent singer, i HATE chewing gum because it gives me the worse sore throats! does that happen to anybody else?

[jczelyph]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 12:30am

No, but it gives me headahces. I get burpy too, because it encourages you to swallow a lot of air.

[Radioactiveduck]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 2:35am

Wow, they're talented. I can't even keep gum in my mouth when I'm talking.

[Blair]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 2:36am

Gum chewing always hurts my jaw after a while, so I couldn't imagine chewing when I have to sing.

But as a character choice I believe it would be okay.

[Denny30]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 11:04am

I've done it a couple of times,actually. When I did A Chorus Line, I put it behind my ear, and when I did Grease, I put it on my guitar. Of course,both times it immediately went back in the mouth after the songs.

[Racetrack]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 4:52pm

When John Barrowman was in Sunset Boulevard he chewed gum, but it was due to having forgotten to take it out during rehearsal(I think they were in the midst of a change of the actresses playing Norma from Buckley to Paige: I could be wrong) and he noticed it afterwards and he was about to spit it out when the director said to keep it because it worked the with the scene. I don't remember what scene they said it was, it was a funny moment of forgetting it was there but it worked quite well with the scene apparently.

As for my experience my teachers have always said to take out gum. And most of the time I would remember. Admittedly sometimes I'll forget during rehearsal, but most of the time the director won't notice. Never have I chewed gum onstage. Sometimes like everyone else has said I think it's a choice for the character/scene and sometimes it works other times it doesn't. It just depends.

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 7/30/05 at 5:31pm

i have to disagree with flaemmchen in saying that chewing gum is not a strong choice. there are alot better internal or external afflictions than person can have than having something in thier mouth. Unless it is specificly mentioned in the script gum should be kept off the stage.

which leads me to wonder why Jen would be chewing gum... probably just a mistake.