Best Preshow Announcement

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 5:30pm

What is the funniest/most clever/quirkiest Pre-Show Announcement you've seen?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 5:35pm

This is not a "there's already a thread!" reply, but instead, wanted to link to this oldie:

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=971372

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 6:50pm

Waitress

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:00pm

Not sure what it was on Broadway (I assume it was the same or very similar), but The Addams Family on tour had a cute bit about torturing audience members who used their phones/crinkled wrappers/etc during the performance. 

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:12pm

The shows can be as clever and funny as they want, but those announcements don't work. 

[Tag]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:13pm

Legally Blonde was cute and very appropriate.

[PatrickDC]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:16pm

LizzieCurry said: "This is not a "there's already a thread!" reply, but instead, wanted to link to this oldie:

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=971372

"

Ha! And within THAT link there is an identical post redirecting people to an even earlier thread! 

This board really needs a new format where questions like this (and stage doors, specific shows, rush, etc) can be posted. Or maybe make the "search" button more prominent. 

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:21pm

I loved the Legally Blonde pre-show announcement, I also love the Kinky Boots pre-show and I used to love the Hairspray pre-show with Corny Collins reminding the audience that it is 1962. 

[Ahmy]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:27pm

I thought Present Laughter & Great Comet's announcements were pretty cute.

[HSky]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:40pm

For practical: the upstairs usher at the Richard Rodgers who gives a little speech. 

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 8:45pm

The best pre-show announcements are the ones that sound kind of mean, like at Phantom, where they say that flash photography is annoying to people around you.  The ushers who walk around and tell small sections of the theater at a time are great too.  The cutesy ones suggest that it's more of a suggestion than a rule to put phones away and it's totes NBD if you text and/record.  

[StephieElise]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 9:22pm

I like the Kinky Boots one. I think (hope?) it's more effective having a person on stage rather than a voice over and I like that they spell out that no phone use whatsoever is acceptable. At the final Melbourne show last weekend Don's 'understood?' was responded to by a chorus of 'yes!', although admittedly a large portion of the audience would have been theatre people.

[ChiTheaterFan]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 9:31pm

The She Loves Me announcement said something about not using anything that didn't exist in Budapest in whatever year it took place. 

 

And Hamilton is funny of course. A good introduction to King George. 

[ameleigh]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 10:38pm

I love Hamilton's when King George says enjoy MY show!!

[pupscotch]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 10:41pm

I thought the Great Comet one was great, and it also allowed people to actually see if you turned it off. 

[ethan231h]

Posted: 3/30/17 at 11:19pm

HSky said: "For practical: the upstairs usher at the Richard Rodgers who gives a little speech. 

 

"

this 

[Lot666]

Posted: 3/31/17 at 8:13am

Phantom4ever said: "The best pre-show announcements are the ones that sound kind of mean, like at Phantom, where they say that flash photography is annoying to people around you."

I'm not sure I'd describe him as "mean", but the guy who does the Phantom announcement is certainly severe. I particularly like the way he phrases his last statement as if it comprises four distinct sentences: "Please do not take photographs at any time. In. This. Theatre."

[thebookofwhizzer]

Posted: 3/31/17 at 9:25am

ethan231h said: "HSky said: "For practical: the upstairs usher at the Richard Rodgers who gives a little speech. 

 

"

this 

 

"When i saw hamilton the same thing happened, everyone clapped, it was hilarious