Funniest BCEFA Speech Moments?

[SirLiir]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 12:50pm

Anyone care to share those amusing moments during their speech for the Broadway Cares- Fight Against Aids where actors like to ab lib and shake it up. My favorites so far:

Norbert (DRS 11/6)- "You can get these wonderful T-Shirts for a nice donation...just in time for winter!"

Shoshana (Wicked 10/23) - She forgot the price of the CD and she says "Oh geez I forgot. I am sooo fired."

Ana Harada (Avenque Q last Nov) -First off, I dont really talk like that (referring to her Christmas Eve voice).

I was not there but I heard about a funny Wicked story for David Ayers (Wicked last year). Basically he does his speech and then someone in the audience asks, "How much for you?" After the cast cracks up, he says, "Well..for a nice contribution, you get a chat and...a hug?"


Updated On: 11/6/05 at 12:50 PM

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:02pm

Harvey (FIDDLER 11/5) - "You can get the 'I Love Anataveka' shirt autographed by all of us on the back. Except for Rosie who's on the front cause she's special."

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:27pm

A few Januarys ago, WICKED had an auction for Galinda's crown and no one was bidding. Cheno said: "Lets go, guys. Am I gonna have to start stripping?.........Again?"

[MeleeQ]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:52pm

John Pinnet at Hairspray last night: "This is going to be very short... because I'm wearing HEELS. I was NOT meant to wear these! The costume guy said it was like putting shoes on a ham!"

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 1:58pm

Last year at Avenue Q Rick Lyon's voice kept cracking like he was really nervous, and I found it funny for some reason.

[442namffug]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:12pm

John needs a new line! Something tells me he uses that one every night. He even used it on the Broadway.Yahoo.com video.

[JACXR71]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:19pm

Ana G had a ton of funny quips when she made the speech last week....of course I can't remember any of them, which makes this post pretty useless. I think one had to do with the fact that her underwear didn't go for very much on ebay, so if anyone was planning on selling it, they might want to rethink their plan.

[.LittleWing. 0224]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 2:24pm

Deborah at Bee ...

"remember, no amount is too little. unless you give nothing. which would be too little."

then...

"...BC/EFA and the Phyliss Newman Woman's Health Initiative. and if you give enough money, we can shorten the name. Hopefully by at least two words."

[7Minutes]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:01pm

Back in March, at La Cage aux Folles, they were auctioning off Zsa Zsa's boa and Gary Beach cried, "Oh, this is more fun than clams at Howard Johnson's!" There was more from that particular day, but that's what I can remember.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:05pm

Probably everything Jan Maxwell has said in Chitty. I've only heard about 2 so far and they were both hysterical.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson said something funny about how other theaters throw away their trashed props, but at Spelling Bee they sell them for ridiculous amounts of money, then went on to show the signed broken karate board.

[Fizz]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 3:56pm

To finish JACXR71's thoughts- seeing as I saw the Chicago cast of Wicked last week...

"You can donate your fives, your tens, your 100 dollar bills..."

I don't remember many of the others though.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:18pm

Debra Monk to Brooke Shields: "Don't you have a loincloth from the Blue Lagoon that we can auction?"

[Dre2387]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:35pm

I didn;t hear this one but I remember my friend telling me about. This was when Les Mis was still on Broadway and when orchestras were (I think) ready to go on strike or maybe it was when Broadway was thinking of just having recorded orchestrations. Anyways, during the show, when Thenardier drops the tray and it rolls into the orchestra, one of the orchestra guys throws if back to him.

then (and these are my friends exact words): "Immediately following the final bows, Thenardier (Nick Wyman) wandered back onstage and delivered the annual BC/EFA speech, which was marked by a cute little "Top Ten Reasons Broadway Shouldn't Use Canned Music" routine. Some of the highlights were "Number 9: Who would toss the tray back to me when it rolls into the orchestra pit?" and "Number 4: Who the hell wants to go to a karaoke bar with a $100 cover?" "

I thought it was hilarious!

[Parks]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:44pm

Carole Shelly's speech after Wicked in March was...funny to some people. I didn't laugh too hard, but it was "cute". She was advertising the Wicked cook book (for only like 50 or 100 DOLLARS. YEAH, right). She said something like, "Be the first one your block to cook ____ munchkins. Can't remember what it was called.

[softershade]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 4:59pm

parks, it was "spicy munchkins"

i'm still in love with jennifer laura thompson's obsession with the word 'buckets'

[ILoveWicked330]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:40pm

Last week, Megan Hilty in Wicked couldn't pronounce Stephen Schwartzs' last name and then she said "And if anybody happens to have an loose change... any spare singles...fives...tens...twenties..."

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 9:44pm

In My Life thanked the audience for just being there and asked for a donation, if they didn't mind spending any more $$. most of the crowd bypassed the bucket holder.

Rob Bartlett's LSOH speeches were always funny. He always ran the auctions like a real auctioneer, with nobody able to understand wat he was saying.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:09pm

""remember, no amount is too little. unless you give nothing. which would be too little." "

HAHAHAHAHAHA That is th ebest one.

She interrupted a phone convo I was having once. And I got yelled at from the other end of the phone line.

[PJ]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:15pm

Megan Hilty's speech on Wicked Day was quite funny. I hate when actors come out and act like they're performing in a public speaking competition. I love when they have fun with it.

[liotte]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:19pm

My avatar is Megan on Wicked Day, her speech was so funny. I have a lot of pics of her making so many funny faces. She was looking through the pics on my camera and was like, OMG you have to send these to me!

[Broadwayluva]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:20pm

are these speeches given during the whole month of November, cause I'm going to a couple shows ths weekend and didn't know if i'd be hearing any

[liotte]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:21pm

Yeah, you'll still hear them.

Chris Seiber was quite funny at Spamalot on Tues with his speech. I don't remember anything he said, but I found it funnier than the show itself.

[PJ]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:26pm

They collect money until sometime in December.

[new_philosophy_girl]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 10:27pm

I went and saw Hairspray on Thursday night and Julie Halston (Prudy) did the speech and was talking about the different things they had for sale, and she started talking about how they had pins and keychains that the lovely Link Larkin was holding, and at that time Blake Edwards made some stupid face and couldn't hold up the keychain for some reason, and Julie stopped, looked at him and was like "and yes ladies, he is straight".

Quite humorous if you were there...lol

[blackisthisyearspink]

Posted: 11/6/05 at 11:34pm

These are all so great!! At Spelling Bee last week Jose Llana was giving the speech and said something like, "BCEFA is a great organization that gives Aids to all people...crap...i mean gives help to all people with AIDS... oh skrew it...just give us money" He turned a few shades of red. I can't remeber all of it but it was priceless!