Favorite Entrances?

[GlindatheGood22]

Favorite Entrances?#1

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:24pm

I know we had a thread on this a while back, but I can't seem to find it. So what are some of your favorite stage entrances?

I think mine may well be Mrs. Wilkinson.

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[binau]

Favorite Entrances? #2

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:25pm

I love entrances and entrance applause.

Rose, Desiree, Sally (at least in the current revival)...

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[CATSNYrevival]

Favorite Entrances? #2

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:27pm

I still think Peter Pan gets the best entrance ever.

[jamiekennywicked]

Favorite Entrances? #3

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:29pm

Glinda's entrance in The Wizard Of Oz (London Palladium) is pretty spectacular.

''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter

[GlindatheGood22]

Favorite Entrances? #4

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:32pm

Forgot to mention:

Lee - Jerusalem
Rooster - Jerusalem
Callas - Master Class

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[givesmevoice]

Favorite Entrances? #5

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:34pm

I'm a big fan of Lucky and Pozzo's entrance in Waiting for Godot.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[shrekster224]

Favorite Entrances? #6

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:38pm

Felicia's in Priscilla, Velma Kelly's in Chicago, and Elder Cunningham in BoM.

[ljay889]

Favorite Entrances? #7

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:40pm

Currently: Bernadette Peters in FOLLIES.

[uncageg]

Favorite Entrances? #8

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:45pm

I second Bernadette and also her entrance before Losing My Mind. Loved Daniel Radcliffe's entrance in How to Succeed.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[dreaming]

Favorite Entrances? #9

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:46pm

I must say the classic Norma Desmond entrance is pretty spectacular, with her coming down the staircase, saying "You there, why are you so late?" I was drawn in when I saw it.

I also loved Desiree's entrance (both actresses) in the revival of Night Music.

And I love, love, love Mrs. Wilkinson.

[gypsy4]

Favorite Entrances? #10

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:47pm

Peter Pan! and Mary Poppins!

[BrodyFosse123]

Favorite Entrances? #11

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:49pm

Carol Channing's 'hidden' entrance in HELLO, DOLLY!

Norma Desmond's in SUNSET BLVD.

All the principal's in WOMEN ON THE VERGE (they run on separately during the "Madrid" number)

Mary Poppins' in MARY POPPINS

[Elke]

Favorite Entrances? #12

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:52pm

Didn't see these mentioned yet...

St. Jimmy in American Idiot (what a thrill when BJA was in the cast)
Fiona in Shrek
Roger De Bris in The Producers

[Kad]

Favorite Entrances? #13

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:54pm

Roger De Bris as Hitler in The Producers.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[AC126748]

Favorite Entrances? #14

Posted: 8/23/11 at 4:56pm

Joanna Lumley's entrance was the best part of the recent revival of LA BETE.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[HistoryBoy2]

Favorite Entrances? #15

Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:05pm

SING OUT, LOUISE!

[Musicaldudepeter]

Favorite Entrances? #16

Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:13pm

Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit
Norma in Sunset Boulevard
Rose in Gypsy
Mary in Mary Poppins

[GlindatheGood22]

Favorite Entrances? #17

Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:19pm

It's been so long since I saw Mary Poppins. Her first entrance is up through the floor, right?

I know you. I know you. I know you.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Favorite Entrances? #18

Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:26pm

I looooooooooooooove the transformation of Joe Boyd into Joe Hardy in DAMN YANKEES, in what is effectively Young Joe's entrance.

CHURCH DOOR TOUCAN GAY MARKETING PUPPIES MUSICAL THEATER STAPLES PERIOD OIL BITCHY SNARK HOLES

[inick122492]

Favorite Entrances? #19

Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:48pm

Will I be e-raped if I say Wicked cuz me likes.

[supersam1026]

Favorite Entrances? #20

Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:51pm

Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! Your attention is everywhere but on her and then she just appears.

[ggersten]

Favorite Entrances? #21

Posted: 8/23/11 at 5:58pm

Cervantes in Man of La Mancha if coming down a stair from above the stage.

[Mildred Plotka]

Favorite Entrances? #22

Posted: 8/23/11 at 6:00pm

Tovah Feldshuh has a great entrance...

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

[aasjb4ever]

Favorite Entrances? #23

Posted: 8/23/11 at 6:02pm

Bernadette Peters's entrance in Follies, and Tyne Daly's in Master Class.

She told me I didn't have a look, so it holds a soft spot in my heart.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Favorite Entrances? #24

Posted: 8/23/11 at 6:02pm

The Phantom of the Opera!