Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
zamedy
Broadway Star Joined: 6/27/07
#1Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 9:42am
Just wondering if anyone knows if this is a relatively new practice or if it has been around for a while. I'm referring to cast members breaking out into more singing and dancing after they have taken their bows, such as in MAMMA MIA!, HAIRSPRAY (You Can't Stop The Beat), and LEGALLY BLONDE (Legally Blonde). What other shows did/do this? Was JOSEPH and its megamix the first?
Updated On: 9/15/09 at 09:42 AM
#2re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:05am
Both The Producers and Young Frankenstein had singing and dancing during the curtain call. Also during the curtain call of The Little Mermaid, I think the cast did a reprise of Part of Your World.
That's all I can think of right now.
snarkywannabedreamer
Leading Actor Joined: 2/12/09
#3re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:13amRock Of Ages does Don't Stop Believin' throughout their curtain call as well
#4re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:14amMary Poppins does the Supercali... dance after they've finished taking their bows. That's all I can think of right now but there are plenty more shows that do it.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#5re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:19amUm, musicals have reprised songs during curtain calls forever.
zamedy
Broadway Star Joined: 6/27/07
notabb
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
#7re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:27amLoved it in URINETOWN.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:31amYour dog is cute!
#9re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:39amIt, also, depends on the show. You're more likely to have reprises during curtain calls in musical comedies than in more dramatic musicals. They don't do it in West Side Story. Tony just died and they're going to come out singing and dancing? I don't think so.
#10re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:44amOh, but that would make it so much better. Well, at least with this revival. I didn't feel sad about Tony dying at all.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#11re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:45amI think it's more a convention of the golden age as well, shows like WSS notwithstanding.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#12re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:55amOLIVER (1963) had a medley of short reprises after the bows. It was kind of weird seeing Nancy sing "Id Do Anything to Oliver after she'd been beaten to death. I guess it was their way of saying, "See - it was just a play! - Everyone's happy now!"
#13re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 10:55am
"Dance at the Gym" is part of the exit music, and I find that plenty inappropriate!
Billy Elliot has a dance encore too.
#14re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:15amThe practice dates back to Shakespeare's time, when shows would end with a song and dance after the final act, comedy or tragedy. The practice is even alluded to in Midsummer, where the Mechanicals dance a bergomask, or a clumsy folk dance, at the end of their ill-conceived show.
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#15re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:53amAn encore of one (or maybe two) songs during curtain call can be charming. I just have to say that I hate megamixes more than death. They're about nothing more than selling CDS, and they're generally put at the ends of shows in which every three-chord chorus has already been reprised to death inside the show itself (JOSEPH, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL).
Svetlana2
Swing Joined: 8/14/09
#16re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 1:42pmRoquat - couldn't agree more! Curtain call reprises are nice, but entire megamixes are wearing. I hope megamixes aren't going to become popular anytime soon.
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#17re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 1:47pmCOMPANY (the original & 1995 revival) also had a reprise after the curtain call.
amoni2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/4/06
#18re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 4:18pmThe Tap Dancing curtain call during "Night Mother" was particulary effective. Who knew Brenda Blethlyn could do backflips like that.
#19re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 4:36pmIn the original Broadway production, Anne Pitoniak did splits.
#20re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 5:40pm
Mame has always had a singing curtain call, with the title song beginning just as Mame comes out for her bow.
Updated On: 9/16/09 at 05:40 PM
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#21re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 8:43pmIn Taboo, they all reprised Karma Chameleon.
BumbleWumble
Chorus Member Joined: 12/25/04
#22re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:56pmI think musical theatre would be a whole lot better if every curtain call was Don't Stop Believin'.
#23re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/16/09 at 12:23amI hate when they do that.
#24re: Dancing & Singing Encores During the Curtain Calls
Posted: 9/16/09 at 7:41amThe 42nd Street curtain call was a production number unto itself.
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