Best Main-character entrance- Page 3

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:08pm

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.

[bjivie2]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:14pm

-Peter Pan flying in

-Mama Rose entering from the house

-"A Call From The Vatican"

[mondlerislove]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:27pm

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

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

[Cabchic]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:58pm

I think the best entrance, although not her initial entrance into the show, was Carla in Nine, with Jane Krakowski descending from the rafters in a towel.

Also love King Arthur with the coconuts.

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 4:50pm

"What a dump!"

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:02pm

And it's beginning tooooo...(dododododo dum dum dum dododododo dududu dudu dudu du) (motorcycle) "Joanne which way to the stage?" SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!
I love Maureen's entrance.

I also agree with the Little Shop thing, that homeless guy scared the heck out of me!

[incendiary_wit]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:07pm

Maureen from Rent.

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

[pab]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:07pm

Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:11pm

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.

[LaVieBoheme2]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:16pm

I love Maureen and the motorcycle in Rent of course, but my absolute favorite is Sherie in DRS.

[Ruth Sherwood]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:27pm

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

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

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:31pm

Mama Rose (GYPSY)
Dot (SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE)
Fosca (PASSION)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:32pm

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.

[kate2]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:36pm

i thought cheyenne jackson's (chad's) entrance in all shook up was cool. he looked super fiiiine on that motorcycle! haha:)

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:39pm

Musically and dramatically - Scarpia in "Tosca"

[erniesgirl96]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 8:15pm

Herbert ( Asa Sommers ) in Dance of The Vampires