Favorite show-stopper?- Page 3

[Corine2]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 1:24pm

HELL, YES!

[snl89]

Posted: 7/15/06 at 1:28pm

Saturday Night in the Citayyy! for sure

and La Vie Boheme

Updated On: 7/15/06 at 01:28 PM

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 6:25pm

I loved the commentary by Man in the Chair in Drowsy Chaperone that the actress playing the title character had to have an "anthem" in every show she did, the diva, even if it didn't really go with the context of the show.

Kind of like the heavy duty "Climb Every Mountain" in Sound of Music.

Posted: 7/16/06 at 7:55pm

"I loved the commentary by Man in the Chair in Drowsy Chaperone that the actress playing the title character had to have an "anthem" in every show she did, the diva, even if it didn't really go with the context of the show.

Kind of like the heavy duty "Climb Every Mountain" in Sound of Music."

And why do you say that? Don't you understand the context in which the song is sung?

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:01pm

Bernadette Peters' "Rose's Turn" stopped the show for a couple of minutes. There was a full-on standing-o when I saw it.


And I know it sounds REALLY silly...but "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast always stopped the show when I saw it. *shrug*

[PirelisMiracleElixir]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:02pm

"No Time At All" - Pippin
"A New Argentina" - Evita
"Music of the Night" - Phantom of the Opera

[starletta8]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:04pm

"Statues and Stories" literally stopped the final Piazza. It was the first time I'd ever seen anything like it. A few people gave Victoria Clark a standing O when she entered, but the applause after that number went on for several minutes and they just could not continue.

"Dirty Rotten Number" today certainly stopped the show. Norbert Leo Butz and Jonathan Pryce got the entire audience on its feet after the song (though the applause started after "I think we still deserve a hand") and the audience wouldn't quiet until they each took a bow.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:06pm

Couldn't a song be a show-stopper one night and not another? Just because the audience stops a show one night doesn't mean a different audience will every night. Therefore, how do you differentiate? Is it any song that has ever stopped a show? Just curious.

And my first thought was, even though I've never seen Dreamgirls performed live, that And I'm Telling You would be a showstopper. Such an amazing song.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:12pm

We should probably also have a rule that last shows don't count. Every number at every last show stops the show because of all of the crazed enthusiastic fans in attendance. I've seen last shows where there were a half dozen standing ovations -- all for numbers that never once stopped the show during all the previous hundreds of performances of the show.

[SDav10495]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:31pm

"Gee, Officer Krupke" from West Side Story. Isn't always a showstopper (and it's not one of my favorite scenes in WSS), but if it's done right it will bring the house down (despite its incredibly awkward position in the stage show). When you're actually onstage performing it for an audience, you get one of those awesome highs that reminds you why acting kicks everything else's ass.

[MTQ]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:34pm

Tick Tock, as danced by Donna McKechnie on opening night of Company - the single greatest show stopping moment of my Broadway-going life.

The 2nd show stopping moment that is still with me, although not a 'song', is Paul's monologue in A Chorus Line.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:41pm

I'm not sure what you're getting at Tom14850, I can only guess.

Climb Every Mountain is the show-stopper kind of anthem that the Man in the Chair was saying the actress who was playing the Drowsy Chaperone demanded to have in every one of her shows, even if an anthem wasn't really appropriate for the piece, because it allowed her to be a diva. Get my drift?

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/16/06 at 8:48pm

I know Tommy Tune stopped Seesaw regularly with his stilt and balloon act in "It's Not Where You Start It's Where You Finish" (I think just about every Michael Bennett show had at least one showstopper).

I saw SEESAW, 9 times. Starting when it was in pre-Broadway tryout, in Philadelphia, with Lanie Kazan. I saw it, twice with her, 5 times on Broadway with Michele Lee, and twice, back in Philadelphia, with Lucie Arnaz. While "It's Not Where You Start..." did, indeed, stop the show, the aforementioned "Chapter 54, Number 1909", received a standing ovation, all 9 times that I saw the show. The baloon number got a standing ovation, about three of the times I saw it. My understanding is that Grover Dale choreographer "Chapter 54, Number 1909".