Entrance Applause

[bpstar]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:08pm

Who has received the best entrance applause in a performance that you have seen?

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:11pm

Probably Angela Lansbury on the road with MAME in a 3,000 seat house.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:19pm

Yul Brynner in The King and I farewell tour.

[Just_John]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:29pm

Patti LuPone in Gypsy.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:40pm

When I saw Blithe Spirit Angela Lansbury got entrance applause for all 3 of her entrances.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:03pm

For me, it's any time a performer makes their entrance and the audience has enough respect for the show not to break the mood by applauding a star's mere presence.

[jamiekennywicked]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:06pm

Michael Crawford's entrance in The Wizard of Oz is designed for entrance applause and it's just a tad awkard when theres none of it.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:08pm

I disagree. I think entrance applause, if it's not too drawn out and obnoxious, is a nice way to let the actor know it's good to see them.

I remember the first time I saw Night Music, I couldn't wait to applaud Angela's entrance, I was just so happy to finally see her on stage.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:08pm

Most entrances these days are designed for entrance applause. And of course it's awkward when there's none. Like at the performance of FOLLIES I recently attended where not a single principal received more than a hushed spattering. If 99% of entrances weren't built around entrance applause, then it wouldn't be so weird when there isn't any, and it would be truer to the flow of the show.

Just my $0.02.

Updated On: 1/7/12 at 07:08 PM

[E.Davis]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:13pm

^Especially when some principals got applauses and then some didn't.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:22pm

I don't really understand entrance applause, minus certain circumstances (ie: after Tonys, closing, etc)

The opposite but:
I thought the entrance applause for Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan was random and distracting in Bonnie & Clyde, as well as unnecessary during previews anyway.

The most awkward entrance applause in my book, however, came from another Wildhorn musical, WONDERLAND with the villain, Kate Shindle receiving huge applause; looking back I don't think it was intentional but it calls her it. Especially since no one else got entrance applause, most importantly, uh Alice.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:25pm

^ In the same token, I found it rather silly how Audra McDonald and David Alan Grier received massive entrance applause in PORGY & BESS, but Porgy himself (Norm) received none.

[E.Davis]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:29pm

Well Kate was the only name in WONDERLAND, correct?

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:30pm

I saw Fantasia in The Color Purple in her very early shows, her entrance received quite the applause. When I saw Wicked this past week, the 2nd national tour, Glinda received roars while Elphaba almost got the, "Are we clapping for her as well" response.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:36pm

I wouldn't necessarily say it was Kate Shindle "packing" in the houses with WONDERLAND.

Actually in the January Tampa incarnation, Alice had a chance for entrance applause, perhaps it is in the style of the director: Some like the entrance applause opportunity, some don't (And it was a mesh of directors).

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:46pm

It doesn't bother me but probably because I came to theatre through my love of ballet--where breaking the fourth wall for bows, etc, is the norm (particularly in Russia where it DOES become annoying, they can go on for five minutes).

Contrary-wise, I do think it takes guts for a composer, writer and director to do a show that has no room for applause at all--song "buttons", entrances, etc.

[E.Davis]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:48pm

Oh I know she wasn't, but still a more recognizable name than Janet Dacal.

[CMoore]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:53pm

The couple of times I saw Wicked with Eden Espinosa, her applause was insane when she enters before "The Wizard and I."

[chewy5000]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:27pm

I was just listening to the soundboard of Barbara's final performance in Funny Girl.

[MichaelDendy]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:31pm

Easily Bernadette Peters in "A Little Night Music"

[quizking101]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:52pm

I call it a tie between Kathleen Turner in HIGH and Harry Connick Jr. In ON A CLEAR DAY....although I give the edge to the former as the applause was uproarious in a half-full 750 seat house...

[broadway guy]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:57pm

topol in fiddler on the roof. ( chicago tour)

John tartaglia in avenue Q

idina menzel and kristin chenoweth ( wicked) DUHHH

[jetts7]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:27pm

.Daniel Radcliffe in How to succeed
.Gate opening in Addams Family
.Sutton Foster in Anything goes

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:32pm

I haven't been on stage for a while, but the entrance applause I used to receive (along with my exit applause) really bothered other members of the cast. I don't know why.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:49pm

The beginning of the Prologue during the final week of the Ragtime revival.