Closing Nights. — Page 2

I've been to the closings of Parade, Titanic, The Music Man, and the Into the Woods revival, and I will be at the closing of Nine this Sunday as well. In all honesty, I would not trade my experiences at those shows for anything else in the world. Yes, the actors (and the orchestra, I might add!) take liberties, and there are often ovations from the diehards in the audience that stop the show for quite a long time, but most of the time the audience doesn't care--in fact, they enjoy it. They know that something is obviously going on from the electricity provided by the relatives and friends of the cast and crew and the fans, and they feed off of it and add to it. Ultimately, the closing becomes a very memorable performance, full of laughter and tears over the realization that it's the last time you're going to see that specific scene or hear that specific song live on-stage in that show for a very long time. The standing ovations at the end are of rock concert quality (at Titanic we had a flower toss). I can only imagine what it's going to be like at Nine...

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I was at Douglas Sills' final performance ever of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in LA. The audience went wild over every song and almost every line he said, and afterwards, there were about 300 people waiting to meet him at the stage door! Douglas is truly an amazing guy, because he gave EVERYONE an autograph and then a picture with him!! Oh my God, I'm getting emotional just thinking about it!

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I attended the closing of the 1776 revival. Nothing that spectacular took place. The actors looked more or less relieved.

Also attended the closing performance of The Beautiful Game in London. Our Kind of Love received a huge ovation (rightly deserved) and Andrew Lloyd Webber was sitting a couple of rows behind me. The energy was high and both the audience and cast were very emotional. I really enjoyed it. Much more so than Whistle Down the Wind.

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I was also at the closing night of The Beautiful Game in London. Didn't see ALW in the audience where I sat and was suprised there was nothing obvious that indicated it was a closing night...no announcemnets, speaches etc.....Being unfamilar with the show I could tell there was a certain "buzz" in the audience though.

Bonnie in Oz

do off broadway shows count?

i saw the final two shows of the show and after it seemed like a party in thelonny, Daisy Price was there and JRB and sherie and norbet of course.

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