Best Entrances & Exits
Best Entrances & Exits
#0Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:29pm
Which characters had the best entrances & exits?
Maybe the first and last times we see them, but also of any scene throughout the show. Any character, not nesseccarily the leads.
"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
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#1re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:32pm
The Emcee from Cabaret and Philip Sallon from Taboo. I like the narrative characters.
"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
#2re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:32pm
Below is another entrance thread:
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"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!"
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#3re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:34pm
Entrances:
- Max Bialystock before "King of Broadway" in the Producers
- Millie after she goes through her modern change in Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Velma Kelly before "All That Jazz" in Chicago
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Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#4re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:35pmAww! Millie, I love your icon!
"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
JasonD13
Understudy Joined: 9/11/03
#5re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:38pm
Proof has many amazing entrances and exits.
I loved seeing Neal Patrick Harris and Anne Heche in that show, they were awesome!
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millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#6re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:38pm
Thanks. 
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#7re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:46pm
Yea, this kind of already existed, but it's still kinda fun. My picks are:
Entrance: Steevie (Sally Field, when I saw it,) when she enters for the last scene covered in blood dragging Sylvia (the goat,) she just murdered.
Exit: Grizabella in CATS when her an Deuteronomy go up to the heaviside layer on the giant infamous tire.
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#8re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:53pm
Entrances:
In Seussical, The Cat In The Hat's entrance at the beginning of the show - "Oh the Thinks you can think."
The ensemble of the LION KING in "Circle of Life" through the aisles.
Elphaba in WICKED in the beginning of "No Good Deed."
The Witch in INTO THE WOODS at the end of "Last Midnight."
Exits:
Aida and Radames in AIDA at the very very end of the show, in the tomb.
In MILLIE, the head person of the workplace (blanking out on names) after she tells Billy off.
"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
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#9re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 10:56pmCapn Hook, I love you! Um...it's Miss Flannery and she tells Jimmy off.
"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
Updated On: 11/9/04 at 10:56 PM
#10re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:01pm
No little children love me!
How can I break it to Smee that they find HIM lovable?
"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
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#11re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:01pm
How about for exit:
When the Phantom exits at the end of POTO, how he just "disappears".
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#12re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:03pm"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd...he served a DARK and a vengeful god..."
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#13re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:12pmentrances- billy flynn and velma kelly- chicago, mr applegate- damn yankees, glinda- wicked
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#14re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:14pm
Entrance: Maureen on the motorcycle in RENT
Exit: Aida and Radames in the tomb
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/04
dotmarie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/14/03
#16re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:57pmOoh, Carla in Nine... during A Call From the Vatican.
#17re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/10/04 at 12:01amI would definately agree with Amneris's entrance. Soo cool.
#18re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/10/04 at 12:04am
Well, now I know what happens at the end of "The Goat." Thanks.
ANYHOO...Sweeney Todd, in my opinion, gets the best entrance and the best exit, if you do it according to the script (which not everyone does). He rises from the grave at the height of the opening number, and on the very last note in the score, in the reprise of the opening, number, he slams the door on the audience. How f**king awesome is that? No wonder the "Sweeney Todd" logo is my icon, right?
#19re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/10/04 at 12:17am
Favorite Entrance: Glinda in the Bubble
Favorite Exit: Javert in Les Mis, Enjolras on the flag after the battle
Ive always wanted to know, how does Amneris make her entrance?
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#20re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/10/04 at 12:28am
I love how in Aida it starts off really quiet when Amneris singing her beginning... then BOOM. it becomes really loud.
I love Javert's exit. His song is amazing.
And of course, Aida... Aida and Radames
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#22re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/10/04 at 1:29amI love AIDA. I wish I had taken my oppertunity to see it, but alas I have not. How does Amneris make her entrance?
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Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#23re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/10/04 at 1:42am
Oh! Dotmarie is right!
I think Jane Krakowski put everything else to shame.
"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
#24re: Best Entrances & Exits
Posted: 11/10/04 at 1:47am
I see mention of AIDA!
*comes running*
The curtain opened in a museum scene, Viva. She was in a glass case, like a statue.
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