Are There Any Gun Shots In:- Page 2

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 6:29pm

I abhore gunshots in shows! I never jump at them, but I have a sister with cerebral palsey and her senses are insanely heightened and whenever there is a gunshot she starts screaming and sobbing in the theatre so it isn't a good thing...ever.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 6:36pm

I saw a version of West Side Story were at the end Maria grabs Krupkees gun and blows herself away as the curtain came down..... i started laughing....hard ...... i laughed till i cried

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 12:55am

Les Miserables= Big, loud, and plenty of gunshots

Eh, not really. There are only a few actual live "shots" fired:
* the sniper (this is on stage left, for anyone who worries)
* Valjean shooting the sniper
* Valjean shooting in the air when he releases Javert
* three shots at Gavroche's death

The rest are all on click-track and pretty innocuous, IMO. Then again, I now make it a sport to laugh in my head at everyone around me who jumps. I'm a horrible person because I do this and (in a theatre or not), I don't generally jump at loud sounds.

[wickedfreak]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 12:56am

Seriously....ur like a posting machine!

[andyf]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 12:59am

I jumped at the gunshot in 'night, Mother even though I was waiting for it.

[trpguyy]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 1:04am

Everytime I've seen a production of WSS where they sue a started pistol the audience laughs. It's just a natural reaction to being startled. Directors should know this by now, and use a "cheap" sound effect. It won't sound as good, but it also won't ruin the mood of the scene.

[elphatine]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 1:30am

Anyway...

Nope, no gunshots in WIW... just a speeding train that goes off the tracks and is projected to look like it's heading right for the faces of the audience.

It's nothing, really. I actually think I posted about the train elsewhere on the board, so if you feel like looking for it, more power to you!

[musicalsaregreat]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 2:49am

The shot in 42nd St. always comes out of nowhere for me. It's great, but always a surprise

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 2:53am

there are quick gun shots in Dracula, The Musical.

[EganFan2]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 6:56am

>>>so wait wait wait, can someone please answer my question, flat out without stupid double negatives...are there or are there not any gun shots in The Women in White

thanks

This is an incredibly rude response. If you'd read my post, the first thing I said was that NO there are NO gunshots in WomAn in White.

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 8:57am

Isn't there also a gunshot in Avenue Q, during "There Is Life Outside Your Apartment"?

[Jon]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 9:28am

I remember the machine guns in the opening sequence of TOMMY were ear-shatteringly loud.

[Sant]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 9:57am

Isn't there a shot in MISS SAIGON as well when Kim shoots Thuy?

Also, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME has a shot, when this guy gets shot in the knee.

[jasobres]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 10:03am

Surprisingly, there were gunshots in Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby.

[my2cents]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 10:35am

Can I ask a really stupid and ignorant question. Why do people ask about gun shots. I never really noticed before reading the boreds that people have problems with them. Sometimes its obvious they are going to be in a show like assassins, but i see how they may pop up in other ones. Can someone tell me (not jokingly) what is it that is disturbing. I would like to learn something today.

[Katecab99]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 10:47am

i don't like them either...i saw "a soldiers play" last night and there were plenty, which freaked me out!

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/21/05 at 11:14am

"Ragtime" also has several gun shots in it.

Even "Music Man" has a shot-like noise during the assembly scene. Tommy lights a firecracker under the mayor's wife. Heh, heh.

Most theatres today will post centralized notices in the lobby just like a last-minute cast replacement sign, warning of any gun shots, fog, strobe lights, etc. Many people have complained, I guess.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 12/7/05 at 2:14am

the gun shot in 'night mother, even though as an audience member i know it is going to happen, is the most horrific gun shot i know.


also, when i did city of angels i actually had to be the one firing a gun onstage, live, at another person. that was scary man!

[thez914]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:00am

The gunshots in Miss Saigon are by far the most potent. I loved that they were incorporated into and accentuated by the score. The one toward the end (I don't want to give anything away for the few that are unfamiliar) is just heartwrenching. Gun shots that occur offstage, I believe, are so much more powerful. They halt the action and the audience is left imagining the shooting/killing rather than having it acted out (which I believe is much more affecting). When this moment comes in Miss Saigon, I just close my eyes and wait for the sound. It's such a captivating experience.

[saschasf]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:51am

Shiksa, I HAVE Crebral Palsy, and gunshots are just too much for me. When I wwas in high school, my parents got me second row tickets to see Les Miserables, for my birthday. I don't know what I was thinking, since a war normally has guns,and such, but talk about being miserable (yes, BADD humor) all night! I felt bad for my parents, who had thought I would love the show, and the person sitting in front of me, who probably wasn't fond of being kicked all through the show.

[washu2002]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:47am

This wasn't on Broadway, but when I saw Ivo Van Hove's interpretation of Hedda Gabler at NYTW I was in the middle of the last row just in front of the platform the actors stood on in the back of the audience. Hedda was playing with her guns and Judge Brack was standing on the platform. She practically points the gun at everyone in the audience and points the thing straight at my face and shoots the blank. I always worry that some homicidal props manager will substitute the blank for a live loaded gun...

[dancinfan]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:01pm

Not a gunshot per se, but there is a really loud explosion in Beauty and the Beast when Maurice'd invention explodes. It often scares kids to the point of bawling fits.