Funny and Unforgettable Ad-Libs — Page 5

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.

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 - 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

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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.

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

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

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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.
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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...."

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

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?"

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.

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.

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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?