Defining Moments

[Hokosho2]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 12:12am

What is the most defining moment in theater ?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 1:09am

It was the Patti LuPone/Wynonna Judd show from a few years ago. Just brilliant theater.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 4:51am

Electricity. (NOT the Billy Elliiot kind.)

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 5:03am

For me it's usually the split second as the lights fade up after the set change between the third and fourth scenes.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 5:30am

Obviously it must be Spelling Bee:

Can I have a definition?

Updated On: 5/12/10 at 05:30 AM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 7:03am

Ah, Stephen Sondheim "moments."

From Into the Woods:

Oh, if life were made of moments,
Even now and then a bad one--!
But if life were only moments,
Then you'd never know you had one...

And from Anyone Can Whistle:

Crazy business this, this life we live in.
Can't complain about the time we're given.
With so little to be sure of in this world,
We had a moment!
A marvelous moment!

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 10:03am

It was probably when that arrogant asshole Thespis started doing callbacks in the middle of a dramatic religious chant ritual in ancient Greece.

They probably killed him, but now we have SHREK.

[madbrian]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 10:15am

Didn't theater's singular defining moment actually occur on TV, when Cheno and Esparza appeared together on Pushing Daisies?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/12/10 at 10:16am

No, it was when Cheno and Idina both appeared on GLEE, thus creating a theatrical vortex in which the two will have no choice but to return to WICKED together and finish out the run of the show.