Dreamgirls question.....

I've seen the movie twice, once on Christmas night and once again yesterday afternoon.

Christmas day: It was the worst moviegoing experience I have ever witnessed for one of the best movies I've seen this year. The entire audience was talking on their cell phones, the lights were on, people were coming and going the ENTIRE time, groups were standing up and just having full-on, raucous conversations... yet, when "And I Am Telling You..." began, the commotion seemed to stop and a quiet concentration came over the audience. After J-Hud belted out those last notes, everyone began to applaud loudly. Then they got loud again...

Yesterday Afternoon: The audience was MUCH more respectful, and the lights were off. This crowd also erupted into applause after "And I Am Telling You..." and a few people actually stood up. It was alot of fun. They did the same after "I Am Changing", "One Night Only", and "Listen" as well.

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This is O.T. but one of my friends said when she saw Star Wars:Attack of the Clones, people were applauding during Yoda's fight with Christopher Lee's character.

Updated On: 12/30/06 at 03:04 PM

When I saw it two days ago, there was applause. There were only about 20 people in the audience, but after "And I'm Telling You..." we all burst into applause. I've never seen that happen before.

I saw 50 people when I saw it.

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When I went (Christmas day) the theater was just about full. The show started and people just kept talking and talking. The talking finally stopped about fifteen minutes in. When we got to "And I Am Telling You..." people started freaking out. Everyone was like "this is the song! this is the song!" I just wanted to shout "Yes, we know, now please shut up so we can actually listen to it." But I just sat there and zoned everyone out. It finally got quiet about thirty seconds into the song and then a loud burst of applause on her last note.

The worst was that people came out of other movies and into this one, and would just talk and talk. I hate that.

Anyway, I'm getting aggravated just thinking about it. I still enjoyed the film immensely, none the less.

Rainbow, the Ziegfeld was never a live venue. It was always a movie theatre. There was an original legit Ziegefled that was torn down in the 60's. The movie theatre was so named out of respect for the loss of the beautiful legit theatre that the amazing Joseph Urban built!

All 3 times I've seen it there was applause! And alot of "You go girls" etc. All 3 times the theatre was sold out too (400+ auditoriums)

i saw it for a second time this afternoon and it was a very good showing. people clapped after family, aiatying, i am changing, and the "this time effie white is gonna win" line.
my favorite though was after the second cadillac car this guy sitting behind me was like "oh HELL no!" when it got really quiet. he obviously did the same thing after one night only.

hm, in my experience.. i have had people stand up and clap at the END of a movie [some of which i have started myself =D ] but never in the middle after a scene. how cool, it must've been really amazing. i've gotta go and see it soon!

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Yes, and after Listen, and at the end of the film. It was all very docile, but the audience was very affectionate to the film. A lot of them seemed to have known the musical too and were an older crowd, I was very pleased!

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i saw it tonight and everyone was hooping and hollaring and applauding after every number...it was so great!

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When I saw it, one person tried to start applause when JHud began singing "And I Am Telling You"

A few people applauded when Loretta Devine first appeared.

There were some giggles when Steve Urkel was on.

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