Best Main-character entrance — Page 3

The Damn Yankees revival had two incredible entrances garnering applause:

Young Joe Gillis (lightning fast perfectly timed entrance)
Lola (rising from the floor with one leg extended perpendicular to the floor)

I hate Elphaba's entrance. It's awkwardly staged to force applause during a moment when too much is already visually happening. Those familiar with the show begin appause immediately and those unfamiliar are trying to figure out where they are and what's going on and then applaud when they realize someone they most likely have never heard of entered the stage, but she's green, so she must be the one everyone is applauding for. Meanwhile, the actress is forced to mime looking around at the fictitional campus in that Drama Department kind of way as if she just happened to be blindfolded until that particular moment. I don't hate the show, but I truly detest that moment. Hiccups are less awkward than that entrance.

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Maureen's entrance in RENT ("Joanne which way to the stage?")

and Christine's entrance in DRS are my 2 top entrances...

"What a dump!"

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Maureen from Rent.

"Joanne, which way to the stage?" and the motorcycle are amazing.

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I really don't remember the man playing Audrey 2 being onstage the entire time, even before the shows starts.

My favorites are

Glinda in the bubble.
Mama Rose.
The phantom.
vicki in piazza.

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Mama Rose
I liked Glinda's entrance, even if I did not care for the show.
Fosca's entrance in "Passion"

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Updated On: 9/6/05 at 05:27 PM

In Peter Hall's original staging of AMADEUS, Salieri's wheelchair was sitting center stage with its back to the audience when they opened the house 1/2 hour before curtain. It looked like somebody was sitting there, but you weren't sure. When the lights began to fade at the openning, Ian McKellan yelled out "Mozart!", and you realized he'd been sitting there all along.

Musically and dramatically - Scarpia in "Tosca"