Entrance Applause
Entrance Applause
Entrance Applause#1
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:08pmWho has received the best entrance applause in a performance that you have seen?
Entrance Applause #2
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:11pmProbably Angela Lansbury on the road with MAME in a 3,000 seat house.
Entrance Applause #2
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:19pmYul Brynner in The King and I farewell tour.
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Entrance Applause #4
Posted: 1/7/12 at 6:40pmWhen I saw Blithe Spirit Angela Lansbury got entrance applause for all 3 of her entrances.
Entrance Applause #5
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:03pmFor 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.
Entrance Applause #6
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:06pmMichael 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.
Entrance Applause #7
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.
Entrance Applause #8
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.
Entrance Applause #9
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:13pm^Especially when some principals got applauses and then some didn't.
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Entrance Applause #10
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.
Entrance Applause #11
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.
Entrance Applause #12
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:29pmWell Kate was the only name in WONDERLAND, correct?
Entrance Applause #13
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:30pmI 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.
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Entrance Applause #14
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).
Entrance Applause #15
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.
Entrance Applause #16
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:48pmOh I know she wasn't, but still a more recognizable name than Janet Dacal.
Entrance Applause #17
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:53pmThe couple of times I saw Wicked with Eden Espinosa, her applause was insane when she enters before "The Wizard and I."
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Entrance Applause #18
Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:27pmI was just listening to the soundboard of Barbara's final performance in Funny Girl.
Entrance Applause #20
Posted: 1/7/12 at 8:52pmI 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...
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Entrance Applause #21
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
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Entrance Applause #22
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:27pm
.Daniel Radcliffe in How to succeed
.Gate opening in Addams Family
.Sutton Foster in Anything goes
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Entrance Applause #23
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:32pmI 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.
Entrance Applause #24
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:49pmThe beginning of the Prologue during the final week of the Ragtime revival.
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