For me the best ever were the original productions of Hello Dolly and Mame. and the original Lend Me A Tenor (I did not see the revival, so I don't know if it was in that). I say original for Hello Dolly because the singing was just lusher in the original version. The crescendos in Sunday Clothes and Dolly were just not as exciting as the original. The excitement for both mounted as the score was being reprised. Lend Me A Tenor's curtain call provided a 2 minute revisit of the entire show...it was the most enjoyable part of an enjoyable evening.
The show Over Here had a great curtain call since the Andrews Sisters sang three or four of their biggest hits, which was a hoot. Maybe a stretch to call it part of the curtain call, but the audience loved it, including me...and I was too young to have any real interest in the Andrews sisters.
Also, the last revival of the Music Man, where the entire company played 76 Trombones using real instruments. It was a very clever hoot.
On the other hand, I hated the curtain call for Hamilton and Nicholas Nickelby in particular, because they gave the individual performers no recognition, and a number of those individual performers gave stupendous performances. Hamilton and Eliza were the only ones who got their own bows, which made no sense to me i.e., how could they single out Eliza for a bow and not the cast members portraying Burr, Lafayette/Jefferson, Angelica, or George Washington. But I have never liked curtain calls where individual bows were excluded.
Updated On: 1/28/20 at 12:07 AM
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