Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#1Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 9:58pm
Anyone?? If so, what show and when did they boo?
I've been hearing from old video clips et al about a few experiences where audience members booed. Were you one of them!?
And have you ever felt the urge to boo during a show? If so, when?
#2re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 9:59pmPETER PAN. Captain Hook got boo'd on his entrance and later in Act III.
--Aristotle
#2re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:02pm
I wanted to boo during Spamalot. I saw it the day before it won the Tony and Sara Ramirez was out. Her understudy was terrible and sang "Diva's Lament" in a totally wrong key for most of the song. One of the worst experiences I've ever had in a Broadway show.
O yes, and when I saw Beauty and the Beast ten years ago, Gaston was booed at his curtain call. Poor Marc Kudisch.
~Steven
SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#3re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:02pmI can't think of any personal experiences of booing, but I know that the Childcatcher would get booed regularly during Chitty.
jbdc
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/07
#4re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:06pm
Children's shows don't count! They always boo the villain.
I saw The Music Teacher off-Broadway last year, and people didn't so much boo as groan and talk back throughout several parts of that horrible production. I felt really bad for the cast, but the audience was angry at how bad the script and the staging were. It was a fabulously uncomfortable experience.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#5re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:07pm
Thats right! I forgot he was booed!
I remember parents egging their kids on to boo him too...what the hell?
rocker05
Stand-by Joined: 11/20/05
#6re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:11pmuhhh...CARRIE! People booed it like mad, but I was part of the group that gave the show a huge standing ovation! How could you not stand for Betty Buckley and Linzi Hateley's undeniably powerful performances?!
#7re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:12pm
I think it's rather cute when they boo the villain in a children's show. It means that you've captivated the audience enough for them to have a reaction towards you. It's never meant as a personal attack at the performer, just the character. But no, I really did want to boo Sara Ramirez's understudy. You'd think she had enough practice with all of Sara's absences, right?
~Steven
#8re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:27pm
Now I'll lay the guilt on:
Sara's standby recently passed away and a memorial was performed at the Shubert Theatre.
To Kill A Mockingbird
#9re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:29pmDonal O'Flaherty got booed during PQ. That's the only one I can honestly think of. It wasn't bad though.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#10re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:29pm
WickedGeek, I was just about to say the same thing.
But I saw SPAMALOT the first performance after the Tonys and Sara was out also. That show so did not do it for me. No booing though.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#11re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:30pm
I have! Sherie Rene Scott takes over Idina Menzel in Rent...
"Moo with me!"
Audience:
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#12re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:30pm
Who? Rosena Hill?
***Audience booed Amber after her "Cooties" song in HAIRSPRAY dudring the national tour (b/c of the character)***
Updated On: 4/8/07 at 10:30 PM
#13re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:30pm
Wow, that is terrible.
But it doesn't make me regret how I felt about her performance.
How recent was this?
~Steven
#14re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:31pmPeter Pan and Titanic national tours. Ismay was booed for his bow. It was mostly kids though.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#15re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:32pm
Wow, I didn't know Scott played Maureen.
But, I don't know...okay yes its cute when kids boo but when parents are egging them on to do so it's a bit ridiculous. I mean, when the actors bow, the response they get should be for their performance not for how evil the part they played was. For me, if someone really convinces you that they're evil, you should APPLAUD them even louder, not boo. Especially if you're an adult.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#16re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:34pm
No, Darlene Wilson. She passed on March 2nd...
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#17re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:35pmSara was out the day after the Tonys? That is really an odd day to be absent.
#18re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:35pm
Well, yes, all right, parents shouldn't egg their kids to boo at a curtain call. That is rather childish. But it is sometimes hard for the kids to differentiate between a performance by an actor and the character, especially if they are quite young and new to the theatre. Their parents have no excuse.
~Steven
#19re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:37pm
She was even sick at the Tonys. I think it's a miracle that she was able to belt it out the way she did there. Kudos to her.
~Steven
#20re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:41pmPeople booed at THE WEDDING SINGER when I saw it in November.
#21re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:43pm
The entire audience booed at the first preview of Bring Back Birdie on January 26, 1981. After the song "filth" (which was sung by a kids rock band while sitting on toilets and flushing them), the curtain came down on Act 1 and the audience booed. "Filth" was cut after that performance. Unfortunately, I was not there (I wasn't even alive), but I wish I had been.
Updated On: 4/8/07 at 10:43 PM
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#22re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:45pm
Agreed, MrMusic.
People were groaning during TWS when I saw it...
#23re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 10:50pmWAT, you crack me up. You are the flop princess.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#24re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/8/07 at 11:28pm
"People booed at THE WEDDING SINGER when I saw it in November. "
Somehow I highly doubt this is true
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