Funny ad-libs- Page 2

[TheMecca]

Posted: 9/19/06 at 3:31pm

Spamalot:
Arthur is fighting with the Black Knight- he chops off his arm and the leg doodad falls off too.
Arthur: Flesh wound?! Your arms off!




...And your leg!
Uproarious laughter and applause.

[BNN]

Posted: 9/19/06 at 7:18pm

Patti LuPone dropped her plate onto a woman during A Little Priest once and the woman handed it back and Patti thanked her. Then Micheal turns to her and says "See? It IS too greasy!"

I lol'd.

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:33pm

One time in Cabaret, the table during Perfectly Marvelous just randomly broke. Sally was like 'CLIFF! How much do you suppose that costs?'

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:43pm

Laura Benanti in TWS (after she lost her shoe and Stephen picked it up):

"If you were really my friend, you'd put it back on..."

[Kelly2]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:45pm

This one was at Rent on Halloween: At the end of the show when Maureen and Joanne carry Mimi up to Mark and Roger's loft, Maggie and Nicole ran out, but Karmine (who was on as Mimi) was completely MIA. Maggie thought fast and changed line to "It's Mimi....she's...IN THE PARK!" Karmine ran out a few seconds later and then promptly fell to the floor as the dying junkie that she is supposed to be.

[bigbigbill]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:51pm

When I saw The Apple Tree, Marc Kudisch choked while singing and playing the guitar to one of his songs. I think it was the first song in the second story. He finished coughing and said, "I get a little choked up when I play this one." Then the conductor, from the left box seats, yelled down to him and said, "Why don't you just take it back from [whatever word it was]. And Marc said, "Okay, we're just going to start the whole song over again!" And so he did.

[dmsnyc]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:07pm

So many things seemed ad-libed during DRS, but I think this was a real ad-lib.

The night I saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the palm tree set got stuck as it was coming on stage and fell over. Norbert started to laugh and the two guys who were supposed to kidnap him were exposed to the audience, so Pryce looks at the audience and says "Ignore the men who are supposed to be behind the trees" and everyone got hysterical because the kidnappers waved to us. Then Norbert is helping put the trees upright and then says to Pryce "Well, what now?" And Pryce looks at him and the audience and says "I think they would like us to get back to the dialogue." Then when the kidnappers "re-appear" Norbert gave this "over the top" look of surprise directed to the audience. It was great.

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:10pm

Gotta love that man.

[NJRae]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:36pm

Omg, Kelly, is that who Tim Howar was talking about during the year end wrap up interview?:
"One of the Mimi understudies once missed her cue for the death scene and, instead of being carried on, had to come crawling onstage. She was totally committed, but she was crawling and everybody just started to kind of lose it. I mean, we’re supposed to be on the 11th floor of this building on Avenue B and the idea of her having to crawl up 11 floors by herself just made me lauuuuugh! And she didn’t break character at all!"

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:39pm

Right before DANCING THROUGH LIFE in WICKED, Christopher Fitzgerald as Boq was following Kristin Chenoweth down the stairs near the side of the stage. The stairs are very narrow. During the performance. He said "Miss Galinda!" and tripped on a stair and tumbled to the ground. Kristin turned in horror and said "Oh Biq, you're so clumsy sometimes." and through out the scene Christopher refered to falling telling Norbert "Don't fall. See those stairs, their narrow. Don't fall down them."

[D2]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:42pm

I was in London when Margaret Thatcher resigned (remember her?) and the celebrations in the streets rivaled Times Square on New Year's Eve. The night she resigned I went to see a very funny comedy called "Gasping" and one of the lines was "Get me the Prime Minister on the phone." The actor adlibbed "Whoever the hell it is" immediately following and brought the house down.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:47pm

When I saw Hairspray in Boston with Bruce Vilanch, these were his adlibs:

He's been doing this to me longer than the Big Dig. One if by land, two if by sea.

I always melt when you speak Hebrew.

[mlnreplyer]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:06pm

The RENT tour in Las Vegas -- during "Light My Candle," when Mimi first extinguishes the candle so Roger can light it again, it didn't go out. She waved it, blew on it -- nothing, so when she sings "Would you light my candle?" Roger laughs, stutters a little, and sings "I already did," without missing a beat and staying in the song. My mother didn't realize something went wrong until afterward.

[Kelly2]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 11:22pm

"Omg, Kelly, is that who Tim Howar was talking about during the year end wrap up interview?"

Yep! Very very amusing performance. After the show, she was like "You weren't supposed to be laughing! I was dying! Dead, almost! And you laughed!"

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:06pm

These are hilarious! :)

[singingshowgirl]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:42pm

i saw wicked in 03 the day after thanksgiving. kristin was dancing around during the popular scene right before the song....the microphones made a little bit of a noise. She clutched her stomach and said, "Sorry. Guess I had too much turkey yesterday!"

my friend who saw Wicked the day after the tony awards said that kristin said to idina in the popular scene "you look like a tony award!"

when i saw annie get your gun with andrea mcardle in december, there's the scene at the beginning of act 2 where annie, charlie, buffalo bill, and kids are on the boat and annie sees a bird that she's gonna shoot for food. She shot it and nothing came down. So she said to 2 of the kids, "Go get the bird over there." Then the scene continued....about 2 minutes later, the bird suddenly fell down from above and Charlie said, "There's that bird. I knew it had to come down eventually!"

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 1:52pm

bigbigbill, thats great! I love marc

[smiles]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 3:23pm

A Friend of mine saw wicked...and for some reason Galinda's bubble wasn't working so she had to walk on stage or something...and then during the catfight scene

Elphaba says "We I guess we can't all come and go by bubble....and apparantly neither can you!"

[Claire2141]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 4:17pm

Idina Menzel's last Matinee of Wicked

Idina: Come with me.
Helen: Where?
Idina: NEW YORK CITY!
Helen: Oh I've always wanted to see...
Both: The Emerald City!

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 8:00pm

^ Awww. :)

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 8:17pm

That's really cute, Claire.

[Horton]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 9:44pm

Spelling Bee, all the time!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 9:55pm

I think my favorite stems from Lane and Broderick's return to "Producers." I forget the scene, but Broderick had broken character and was laughing to hard to get the line out, and after a bit, Lane strolls over, leans over him and asks "How does it feel to be the key-you-test boy on Broadway?" more laughter ensues, and finally Broderick chokes out the line, and totally non-plussed Lane turns and says "Honey, these people have paid 500 dollars for these seats, you HAVE to give me a better line than that!"
I nearly peed myself.

[Broadwaynut81]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 10:01pm

Another good Hairspray Boston one -- I saw it the day after the Red Sox lost a pivotal game to the Yankees and during a break in "Timeless" Bruce Vilanch stops and says "Why don't we sing something from Damn Yankees"... stopped the show for a good five minutes,

Also, I saw the regional premiere at North Shore Mussic Theatre, and Paul Vogt and Dick DeCareau just threw zingers at each other for a good few minutes... nothing that I can remember offhand--but it was just funny!
Updated On: 1/15/07 at 10:01 PM

[wexy]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 10:03pm

When I went to see Robert Morse in "Tru", I was seated in sort row A 1/2 and the woman in front of me was fast asleep. Morse is doing Tru and was to put an ornament on a Christmas tree stage left, right in front of me and the sleeping woman. He looked at her and looked at me. He put a finger to his mouth and to me only said "Sshhhh!"