Best Character Entrance?
Best Character Entrance?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#0Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:11pmWhat character do you think has the best entrance in a Broadway show? Why?
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#1re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:13pmEdna in the exploding can of Hairspray. Need I say more?
#2re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:15pmNorma Desmond coming down the staircase in "Sunset Blvd"
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana." - Rose Nyland
#3re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:16pm
Fruma Sarah in Fiddler is pretty cool
Glinda in Wicked
I love the Entrance of "Modern Millie"....OBC...
fastest costume change ever
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
#4re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:20pmVelma Kelly appearing in sillouette at the climax of the overture for "Chicago." It's stunning.
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
pattifan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#5re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:42pmDefinitely Rose's entrance in 'Gypsy'. This has to be one of the most unusual.
...fragment of the day...
#6re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:56pmRENT when Angel makes her first entrance in drag in the santa get up with the pink light behind her... awesome!
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#7re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 2:58pmbialystock exploding from under the sheet of newspapers on his couch
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#8re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:04pm
Yankeefan007, that's not his first entrance. Are we talking first entrances? Ehhh. Uh, the best? I'd say Roger DeBris in The Producers. I knew it was coming, and it still blew me away. Of course, Carmen's entrance is right up there with his - his walk is hilarious, and I love his line when he answers the phone. "Listen, you broken-down old queen! He was drunk, he was hot, he was lucky. Don't ever call here again!"
I think that's it. *wanders off to put that in her signature*
#9re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:04pm
Well, I don't know it this is a thread about the entrance of the character the first time we see them on stage or anytime they enter the stage.
One of my favorites is the entrance of The Wiz in the Broadway musical of the same name (not that movie of The Wiz that Blows . . . . Chunks!)
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#10re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:11pm
I second Rose's entrnace in GYPSY.
It's so unexpected, yet consistently keeping in touch with the role and musical.
It makes you feel more like a part of the show. I've seen GYPSY with been Angela Lansbury and Tyne Daly and both times it sent goosepimples up my spine!
It's... THEATER!!! :)
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#11re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:11pm
Carla in the revival of nine! so amazing!
i too really like millie's entrance, so simple yet so good.
also glinda in wicked
""the gays love their presents. just wave something shiny in front of their faces, you can get whatever you want. Thats how we got manhattan from the gay indians" -Karen (W&G)"
#12re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:12pmRose's is so exciting because she walks in yelling from the back of the house, right through the audience. That's a very special kind of effect that can't be beaten by exploding hairspray cans or glass bubbles.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
CaliforniaCarrie
Swing Joined: 10/13/04
#13re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:14pm
Right now it's Glinda.
The excitement of a new show sticks with me for a while and I only got to see it a few months ago for the first time.
#14re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:19pm
What a great thread!
I have to say the best musical theater entrance ever has to be for Sweeney in "Sweeney Todd." You have the build-up throughout the opening number, and then the chorus, in cresendo, going "SWEENEY, SWEENEY, SWEENEY, SWEENEY, SWEEEEEEEENEEEEEEEY!" And then he appears out of the grave (or the crowd, as in the Hearn-Lansbury video). Friggin' awesome!
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#15re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:35pmMillie. It always gave me chills. Mama Rose is a great one too.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#16re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:35pmI love Rose's in Gypsy. "Sing out, Louise!"
#17re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:37pm
Other awesome entrances:
Hedwig in his cape in the beginning of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Harold Hill appearing in the train car in Music Man
Bat Boy appearing in the dark cave in Bat Boy
Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.
#18re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:54pmI always liked how the wizard came in through the door. And out through the floor.
"as good or quite likely better than any other show with killer rabbits and a legless knight opening on Broadway this season."
-Eric Idle on SPAMALOT
#19re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:54pmI always liked how the wizard came in through the door. And out through the floor.
"as good or quite likely better than any other show with killer rabbits and a legless knight opening on Broadway this season."
-Eric Idle on SPAMALOT
Gpvegas
Featured Actor Joined: 9/17/04
#20re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:55pmI have to say. Dr. Frank-n-furter's entrance in Rocky Horror in the lastest Broadway run was great. The way he entered from the ceiling was great.
Oscar Jaffee
Stand-by Joined: 5/15/03
#21re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:55pmI agree that Sweeney's entrance is awesome. I also love Oscar Jaffee's entrance in "On the Twentieth Century." He had to jump aboard the train by hanging on and climbing through a window. Pretty funny.
WestEndBird
Stand-by Joined: 2/21/04
#22re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 3:59pmDr. F RHPS no doubt...
"Even if I could let you see me cry you would never understand what I was feeling inside, you see it and use it but dont believe in it..."
Chote887
Stand-by Joined: 9/8/04
#23re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 4:20pm
Rose in Gypsy is of course amazing.
I've always liked Amneris's entry in Aida, if you can call it an entrance.
Also the entrance of the animals in the opening to the lion king is by far the most worthwhile part of the show.
Updated On: 10/19/04 at 04:20 PM
twogaab2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#24re: Best Character Entrance?
Posted: 10/19/04 at 4:28pmDolly Levi
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