Funny and Unforgettable Ad-Libs- Page 5

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 6/23/05 at 7:51pm

mandy - I saw Roger do that too! It was fantastic! When we went again, I was so excited for my parents to see it, but instead he did this adorable side step over to Max, gave him this sad puppy look of fear, then did an abbreviated bow. Both were cute but the time he did the cheek noise and bow was just hilarious - if you knew he had played Carmen it was 10 times funnier.

And as for the Taboo line, Nathan is one of Rosie's close friends, and he meant it in no harm. Rosie thought it was funny herself, because lets face it, she did put her own money in the show. He wasn't bad-mouthing it in any way and it should not be read as that. Just a light-hearted comment, don't read too much into it.

~Jessica

[Mythus]

Posted: 6/23/05 at 8:11pm

Karlean7, the "taboo" ad-lib was just a joke. Nathan wasn't saying that Taboo was a bad musical, just that - let's face it - it wasn't a huge blockbuster, which Rosie risked when she put her money in the show. I've heard most of the songs from Taboo, and I love what I've heard. You can love a show and still acknowledge its shortcomings.

[Khashoggi]

Posted: 6/23/05 at 10:27pm

Ray Wills in The Producers, as Max Bialystock, filling in for Nathan Lane...during the "Intermission" bit of "Betrayed"...
"INTERMISSION!.....I like the other guy better..."

and Nathan with Matthew...they were sitting in Max's office, and there was a feather from one of the boas lying in the middle of the stage. Matthew walked over to it, picked it up and said "Look, Max...its a feather!"

In the Australian production of "The Producers", Reg Livermore is singing "Betrayed", he gets to Intermission, sits on the bed, and looks around..the audience applauds, so he stares into the audience and says "A mere ripple..." the audience applauds even more, so he says "Three levels out there and thats the best you can do?" before continuing with the song..

-J

[GiantsintheSky]

Posted: 6/24/05 at 2:16am

When I saw The Producers, Brad Oscar left at intermission. Ray Wills took over and during the "Intermission" part of "Betrayed" he said "What happened to me? How did I grow all of this hair?" The audience went crazy for like five minutes.
He's really funny. I'm surprised he isn't a star.

[NBC]

Posted: 6/24/05 at 10:17am

The other night during "intermission" in Betrayed, Richard Kind said, "You know, they were saving this cell for Michael Jackson."

I enjoy Richard Kind's Max quite a bit...

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 6/24/05 at 10:30am

NBC - you must have been there around the same time I was! I posted a bit earlier in this thread that I heard Richard do that exact same ad lib!


I forgot another Roger one - during "I Wanna Be a Producer," when he goes "You, you, you..." then Kathy Fitzgerald comes out in her costume. Well the other night Roger actually barked! A la Snoopy - it was adorable!

~Jessica

[LuvBroadwayHugs]

Posted: 6/24/05 at 1:36pm

Well. I saw The Boy From Oz twice. The second time was a couple weeks before the show was closing so anything could happen and in the middle of the show some crazed person yells out "Wait! Peter Allen's dead!" And Hugh Jackman looks up into the mez and says, "Really? He is? No s**t! Would it be alright if I finish this anyway?" as he beings to laugh hysterically so everyone else started laughing. It was really funny.

Updated On: 6/24/05 at 01:36 PM

Posted: 6/24/05 at 2:01pm

I didnt see it I read it. but it was when Christopher Fitzgerald was Boq in Wicked, you know the part where he's following Glinda down the stairs well he tripped and fell and all through of the scene he kept telling Norbert and Cheno to "Watch their step" and "not to fall"... It cracked me up.

[Sant]

Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:18pm

Clark Peters was playing Billy Flynn in London's CHICAGO and during his courtroom speech someone in the audience (a box seat)sneezed loudly. He cut his speech for a few secs and then looked at the sneezer and said 'Well, bless you.' and went on with his speech... it cracked everyone up.

[Mythus]

Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:21pm

Clumsy, I love that! Good for him, covering/incorporating his fall in character.

Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:25pm

I know it just makes you laugh. Plus Chris Fitz rocks!

[jasobres]

Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:06pm

How coincidental that two of these ad libs have to do with falling down the steps in Wicked.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:03pm

Chris kicks ass... those jackie quotes are High-Larious

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 6/28/05 at 5:14pm

A couple of Altar Boyz ones (courtesy of Daniel Torres' infamous journal and the wonderful Holz)

One time, the Soul Sensor is supposed to jump from like, 33 to 167 or something. And they sang their little thing and it stayed and 33 and Scott Porter (Matthew) goes, "Well, that's not bad."

And one time the Soul Sensor was supposed to change and it didn't, so Tyler Maynard (Mark) goes, "One more time!" and then they sing their Soul Sensor prayer again.

I love these boyz.<3

heart.
mel

[leon1489]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 10:24pm

bump.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 10:38pm

I saw Hairspray the week before the Republican National Convention. Jackie Hoffman certainly had fun with that. "You all excited about the Republicans coming? I thought so...."

Updated On: 9/4/05 at 10:38 PM

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 10:45pm

lol, all these wicked ones are hilarious. i can just see kristin during that whole "sweet oz." unfortunately, i havent seen most other shows mentioned, so i dont get them

[PerforMeg]

Posted: 9/5/05 at 4:11am

When I was little I saw a production of "The Wizard of Oz" with Phyllis Diller as the Wicked witch. I distinctly remember it: The feet came out from under the house but for some reason only one of them had a ruby slipper. She looked at them and said, "What good is one?"

This was from a production at my high school-they were doing The Miracle Worker and they got to the scene where Annie is trapped in the upstairs bedroom. The character of the brother (I can't remember his name) goes to get a ladder. Meanwhile Captain Keller is pounding on the door to the "locked" room and it accidentally opens. So they just continue on and walk down the stairs. The brother came back on with the ladder, looked up at the window, and said "Did she jump?"

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/5/05 at 6:59am

when i saw The Producers back in 2002 (less than a week after Matt and Nathan left) well Henry Goodman was playing Leo (he's british) and during "intermission" he acted like he was reading the playbill and says "Hey, I didn't know he was british!" Not many people laughed, but i had read his Bio so I laughed quite loudly.

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 11/28/05 at 3:25pm

One time in a production of Cabaret I saw, Rosie tripped when she came out, skinning her knee. The Emcee said, "Ach! Rosie, you're turning redder than usual! Here, I'll make you even redder!" Then he kissed her skinned knee.

[jasobres]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 9:41am

I'm bumping this thread because I love it so much.

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:29am

Rocky Horror was great for ad-libs, but the Penn&Teller thing with the audience member--the audience member was Rocky swing John Jeffrey Martin. The best part about that evening was when I saw him in the audience and said, "You're not going on tonight?" And he just kinda stammered, "Well, ah, no, I'm not a Phantom tonight..." because he couldn't give away what was coming. He was really yelling some weird things, like he'd wait for a call line and then repeat it, but changing words so the sentence lost all meaning.

The Dick Cavett "Bitch slap you to the curb"? I almost peed myself. Until I heard him say it the next 15 times I saw him. His bits were great--the first time! Lol.

Anyway, my favorite RH ad-libs:

1. Terrence Mann is trying to successfully get through his first show, and Kristen Lee Kelly does the longest Columbia rant after she gets zapped. "I'm gonna get some cheese in a can, that stuff's great! Cccckkkhhhhh!!" All the while, Terrence Mann is literally biting his lip and looking at everything BUT her in an attempt to keep his composure. It's the only time I've ever seen the man come close to breaking character!

2. Sebastian Bach is in the audience before its initial closing (and before he joined the cast). Kristen Lee Kelly, as Columbia (once again, after she's zapped): "I'm gonna go upstairs, take out my Skid Row calendar, get some scented candles, and pet the kitty, if you know what I mean!"

3. It's the first Sunday in September 2001. Alice Ripley (Janet) gets zapped and shouts, "My feet! There's something wrong with my feet!" Somebody in the audience shouts, "No white shoes after Labor Day!" to which Lea DeLaria (Dr. Scott) replied, "Labor Day is not til tomorrow. I can't believe they won the war."

4. Terrence Mann is delivering the pre-Rocky monologue ("It was strange how it happened... All the pieces seem to fit in to place...") and there's a drunk (I hope) high up in the crowd shouting after every other word that comes out of Mann's mouth, totally unintelligible things that no one can understand, and certainly aren't funny. Finally, the guy made some comment about Mann (or Frank N. Furter) being gay, and Mann turned and said something like: "That's how I discovere the secret--Eat Me!--that elusive ingredient, that..."

5. Jason Wooten is Dr. Scott, Liz Larsen is Columbia, etc, so it's after the reopening. Wooten delivers, "I knew he had gotten in with a bad crowd, but it was worse than I'd imagined--" to which the audience dutifully called out, "Actors!" Imagine the collective audience surprise when EVERYBODY on stage slowly turned and flipped the bird, then calmly resumed the show.

[peggyandvelma]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 11:45am

Does anyone else know about Kristin Chenoweth, in the middle of "Popular" started talking about how she wrote a book called 'How to be Popular'. I saw it on a video of her last day. I thought it was so funny, but I didn't know if it was actually in the script or not...

[Alex M]

Posted: 11/7/23 at 2:20pm

Now that Spamalot is back, I thought it might be a good time to revive this thread. A lot of different ad-libs happened during the opening preview. Some notable ones were Taran Killam, as the main Night of Ni, saying that they are now the knights who say: *proceeds to do the full ending of the song 'Thriller' with the rest of the knights dancing behind him*. Leslie Kritzer told the audience that Santa wasn't real out of nowhere, which elicited a mixed reaction of laughs and boos. Also, Taran Killam as 'Tim' made a very funny comment that I can't quite remember about how ridiculous the knight whose head got torn off by the killer rabbit looked. It seemed as though Nik Walker was having a hard time getting through the scene because of whatever he had said.

 

any other funny ad-libs or improvs happen lately? 

[Leaf Coneybear]

Posted: 11/7/23 at 2:26pm

Alex M said: "Now that Spamalot is back, I thought it might be a good time to revive this thread. A lot of different ad-libs happened during the opening preview. Some notable ones were Taran Killam, as the main Night of Ni, saying that they are now the knights who say: *proceeds to do the full ending of the song 'Thriller' with the rest of the knights dancing behind him*. Leslie Kritzer told the audience that Santa wasn't real out of nowhere, which elicited a mixed reaction of laughs and boos. Also, Taran Killam as 'Tim' made a very funny comment that I can't quite remember about how ridiculous the knight whose head got torn off by the killer rabbit looked. It seemed as though Nik Walker was having a hard time getting through the scene because of whatever he had said.



any other funny ad-libs or improvs happen lately?"

Wouldn't call it "unfortgettable" but at Gutenberg! the other night  the audience started clapping when Gad was helped off the ground during one scene. He kind of chuckled and said it was sad that people clapped for him just getting off the ground, and Rannells added "and not even alone! He needed help!"