GUN SHOTS? (again, sorry)

#1

GUN SHOTS? (again, sorry)

Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:03pm

I know these post are SUPER annoying to people. But once again just wondering about gun shots in the following shows:
(Yeah I should know some of these but I dont...sorry)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cry-Baby
Equus
In The Heights
November
Passing Strange
South Pacific
Sunday in the Park With George

thanks

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re: GUN SHOTS? (again, sorry)

Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:04pm

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - Not sure...
CRY-BABY - I don't believe so.
EQUUS - Not sure...
IN THE HEIGHTS - No?
NOVEMBER - Definitely not.
PASSING STRANGE - I don't believe so.
SOUTH PACIFIC - No.
SUNDAY - *laughs* None.

#3

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:09pm

You bringing someone with post-traumatic stress disorder??

#4

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:14pm

no....its a long story, but they bother me, so i just like to be prewarned. People get nervous about that understudy board, but for me its that unexpected sign "this performance will include loud gun fire" that can make me sweat...lol

I woulndt have been able to enjoy August Osage County as much as I had if I didn't know it didn't have any gun shots before I went in. I would have kept expecting something to happen offstage.

#5

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:21pm

If gunshots are used in the show, there is ALWAYS a notice in the lobby.

It's required by law.

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#6

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:29pm

Mike- you must have missed that part in "Sunday" when Dot reappears in the second act and shoot's George's Mother, and then starts singing "Move On"


"Stop worrying where you're going"....BANG!...."Move on"

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#7

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:29pm

And if you happen to miss the sign, they make a pre-show announcement, too! Don't worry about it.

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#8

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:31pm

And Jared- it is usually a rule of thumb in theater, that if you see a gun in the first act, 99% of the time, it will be used in the Second Act.

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#9

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:41pm

And remember to ask when buying the ticket.

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#10

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:44pm

Why do they always warn us about gun shots and never about clowns? I find clowns so much more distressing.

#11

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 1:06pm

Joe,

You should have seen the letter I wrote to the Ringling Bros regarding there being no pre show warning that the performance was going to have clowns.

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#12

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 1:14pm

It's Ringling Brothers...

It's a circus...


You were upset because you didn't expect clowns?

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#13

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 3:08pm

Diva, Isn't it rich?

#14

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 4:46pm

I thought South Pacific had gun shots or cannon fire or something along those lines? Maybe I'm mistaking it for another show.

#15

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 6:47pm

Hold it! There's the big showdown between Jules and George. George pulls out his .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, and says, "I don't paint for your approval." That's how they bring it in that neighborhood, g!

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#16

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 9:34pm

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#17

re: GUN SHOTS? (again, sorry)

Posted: 1/17/08 at 9:53pm

first off, knicknut, if you were trying to be funny, it really isn't.

Second, sort of off-topic, but did anyone here see either the original or revival of Assassins? What was the gun shot warning like there, 'there will be many gun shots used in this performance'?

Updated On: 1/17/08 at 09:53 PM

#18

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 10:22pm

Cry Baby does not.

#19

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Posted: 1/17/08 at 10:32pm

Funny the one show I was actually pissed off there wasn't a gunshot was Spring Awakening. I thought that show wimped out not having one!

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#20

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Posted: 1/18/08 at 11:14pm

Not every show has a warning. Off the top of my head, Phantom definitely does not. So just because there's not a sign or announcement doesn't necessarily mean you're in the clear.

#21

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Posted: 1/19/08 at 1:14am

I don't remember POTO having gunfire. Are you perhaps thinking of the chandelier's power-up?

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#22

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Posted: 1/19/08 at 1:23am

The gunfire in POTO happens in the second act when the police are preparing for the Phantom to appear in the balcony. I think there are other times in the show that has gun fire as well.

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#23

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Posted: 1/19/08 at 9:41am

I know there are gunshots in Curtains. There's a sign, but it's not in the pre-show announcement.

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#24

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Posted: 1/19/08 at 6:15pm

Jersey Boys has one throughout the whole show. There is a sign outside the doors to the theatre warning anyone of the gun fire and language. Im not going to tell anyone where it is in case you did not see the show but it does come up pretty quick and can startle you.

#25

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Posted: 1/19/08 at 6:25pm

Yeah, South Pacific usually has gunfire (depending on the production). But more often than not, it dies. It is a show about Soilders in war!