Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed? — Page 3

The only reason people booed carrie was because thats the reason they went to see the show(the actual audience who went to see a show gave it a standing ovation)

Jekyll and Hyde got booed at the performance i was at during its UK tour.

People were outraged at the cheap production and Paul Nicholls AWFUL performance of Jekyll and Hyde(he sounded awful and then Mimed all the way through act 2).The only people in the show who got an applause were the 2 leading ladys.

I also remember that the theatre was only half full but by the time people came back after the interval it was less than a quarter full.

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At a performance of the opera "The Damnation Of Faust" in Munich (at the Staatsoper, the Munich equivalent of the Met), there was considerable booing. It was a typical modern German expressionistic concoction, the sort of thing where if I were doing a parody of a pretentiously misguided German opera, I would just put this production onstage (though it was better than the "Cosi Fan Tutte" I saw in Berlin staged with each character in their own lifesize "diorama" boxes, and with Fiordiligi whipping Despina throughout her first aria.)

Masturbating transvestites, members of the chorus (in evening wear, seated in boxes around the stage like audience members) occasionally standing up and tearing off their clothes, people in animal costumes, and none of it really seemed to pertain to what was going on. I think it was all supposed to symbolize Gretchen's descent into immorality at the hands of Mephistopheles, or something. (It was the lesser-known Berlioz opera.)

At the end, half the audience applauded politely, one-fourth cheered with wild abandon, and the other fourth loudly booed through the entire curtain call. I was in the politely applauding half, thoroughly enjoying the spectacle around me a lot more than I had the opera.

Reminded me of a story of a small riot after a performance of "The Ring" in Bayreuth, where a woman in the audience had the bottom of her earlobe ripped off (by the earing) in the angry melee. I sort of wish NY theatregoing could be more like that, sometimes. It would at least be more exciting.

Hopefully this won't get me attacked, but I seriously considered booing Tony Danza at his Producers bow. Two things stopped me: I had never booed anyone in my life and the people next to me were clapping so hard I figured they'd turn on me if I booed.

When I saw the Legends! tour, people groaned when it was announced that we would have an u/s for Joan Collins character. I booed softly, because the show sucked and Joan Collins may have been able to make it bearable. Needless to say, the show did not get a standing ovation (there weren't very many people in the audience anyways).

Updated On: 4/9/07 at 04:30 PM

when I saw CALL ME MADAM in Chicago around 2000-2001 the entire cast was booed at curtain call. I felt so bad, but the show was pretty bad.

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Actually there was BOOing during Tom Sawyer curtain call too when Injun Joe took his bows. The Boos should have been for the whole production IMHO!

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"ovate"?

Sounds like a Latin expression: "ovate, great Caesar."

Not in English, to my knowledge.

Keen ~ I checked dictionary.com. There is a listing for ovate, but it's an adjective. Not a verb.

ovate
adjective
1. of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
2. rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped]

Have we come to the verbification of adjectives now?

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Everytime I have seen Peter Pan the person playing Hook got booed at some point.

Also I think during the curtain call for The Pirate Queen when I saw it the guy who played Donal got booed (not for his performance, but as the character).

Daphne Rubin Vega got booed and laughed at as Fantine.
Charlotte D'Amboise in ACL after Music and the Mirror- she was all off key.
Thats all- but the one that is vivid in my memory is DRV people were booing in the middle of IDAD

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Dracula: the musical, and I'm not sure but maybe In My Life.

Not many people booed when I caw Carrie, but I also was 13 so I may not have noticed.

I was surprised no one booed at Dance of the Vampires with all the hatred for it. There the crowed just loved it.

Updated On: 4/10/07 at 03:08 PM

The London revival of Cabaret last year:

**SPOILER**

After 'If you could see her' the Emcee turns to reveal a pig/Jew characature on his back. Didn't go down well with some people. There was also booing through the curtain calls.

The villain of a show traditionally gets booed at their curtain call in pantomimes and that's transferred accross to shows like Chitty (Child Catcher) and Mary Poppins (Miss Andrew). Richard O'Brian (original child catcher) said that he knew he'd done his job properly when greeted with a chorus of booing...

Updated On: 4/11/07 at 07:48 AM