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Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#50re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 12:39pm
well, not woot woot necessarily. but like when people say "woo!" that kinda deal.
i often stand as well. but half of the time no one stands with me lol
#51re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 2:20pm
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.
#52re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 3:33pmAt a performance of Sly Fox in New York a couple of years ago a guy booed Richard Dreyfus when he came out for his solo bow at the end. He was pretty taken aback. "Was that a boo?" he said. "Did I get a boo?" He stared out into the audience to see who did it and if it was a joke or not - it was hard to tell. The rest of the cast was laughing.
temms
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/04
#53re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 3:49pm
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.
#54re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:08pmWhen I saw Beauty and the Beast, Gaston was booed at the curtain call.
theminutepast
Broadway Star Joined: 2/1/06
#55re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:12pmHopefully 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.
#56re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:16pm
Well I know there were many rude murmurs and loud comments while Daphne sang "I Dreamed a Dream," in Les Miz.
I'm not proud of it but I contributed to loud murmurs when Arianda in Rent sang, "Out Tonight" It hurt my ears. Someone behind me booed quietly.
JustChillin8908
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/06
#57re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:30pm
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
G_Schlozinski2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#58re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:35pm
I've heard boos during several performances, and unfortunately one of those performances was one I'd produced.
ah, well....
#59re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:51pm
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.
TIGGOSAURUS
Broadway Star Joined: 12/5/05
#60re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:55pm
I couldn't really imagine BOOING a performer I didn't rate, let alone a whole show (if it was that bad I probably wouldn't stay to the end anyway). When someone comes out for a curtain call and I didn't really enjoy their performance I'll withold my applause, but I do appreciate the fact that they've put themselves out there. They may well generate lukewarm responses / negative reviews which must be a bit soul-destroying anyway.
As for the response to villainous characters, especially by children, the pantomime tradition in the UK can make this quite a mark of how successful the performer has been in their 'evilness' - I think the actors can generally tell when it's good-natured.
#61re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:28pmActually 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!
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#62re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:34pmAt Spelling Bee-Chicago, when in the epilogue, Logaine (sp?) says she became Secratary of state for "president Barack Obama..." but i've never been to a show when performers were actually Boo-ed curtain call... how rude...
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#63re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:37pm
"ovate"?
Sounds like a Latin expression: "ovate, great Caesar."
Not in English, to my knowledge.
MaryMag
Understudy Joined: 7/11/05
#64re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 6:17pm
I hate it when people boo upon hearing an u/s will be performing because I hate it when people assume the understudy is worse than the regular actor. In some cases, the u/s is BETTER than the regular actor because the regular actor is just a name or D-list celebrity and the u/s is the one with real talent.
Further, I hate how often audiences at operas boo. Conversely, I hate undeserved standing ovations. I guess I hate a lot of things!
Updated On: 4/9/07 at 06:17 PM
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#65re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 6:21pm
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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#66re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 6:56pm
I've never been to a show where there was booing, although there was one that came close. The 2002 National Thespian Convention, comprised almost entirely of excitable high schoolers, gave instantaneous and thunderous standing O's to every mainstage show except the last one, an execrable production of Blood Brothers. And this was BAD. Easily the worst stage production I've ever seen.
When they dimmed the lights to start act 2, the audience actually protested and they had to bring the lights back up and wait for everyone to shut up. And while the audience was polite enough and eventually gave a standing O at the end, everyone hesitated for a few seconds.
You know a show sucks out loud when a large, easily impressed crowd of your peers doesn't like it.
#67re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 7:12pm
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).
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#68re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 9:13pm
during a lot of childrens theatre shows or mostly child attended shows that i do locally, in the announcements before the show, the children are encouraged to hiss at the villan. granted, in all the children theatre musicals the villan has a turn around and is suddenly the good guy, so ive never seen anyone get booed at curtian calls. i think audiance reaction is fine in moderation.
i dont think its acceptable to boo a performance if youre an adult, i mean, if you didnt like the show or something you dont need to applaud it but its absolutly childlike to boo. and with the whole understudy thing, im sure its hard for them to even do the show, so why the hell would anyone boo them?
Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#69re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 10:34pm
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
Scaulter
Chorus Member Joined: 3/14/07
#70re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/9/07 at 10:36pmI went to a horrible show a long time ago where someone in the audience, walking out, asked if he'd be able to get his money back. The actor onstage told the guy to talk to the box office about it. It was Burt Young in a one man show that he wrote himself entitled SOS. Truly a terrible show.
metropolis10111
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/06
#71re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/10/07 at 3:08pm
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
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#72re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/10/07 at 3:32pm
Billy Joel -- you know, the composer/lyricist of Movin' Out -- teased the audience into booing for him during the encores of a recent concert. He had already played an encore or two, the crowd was cheering. He took a couple of steps towards the piano as if to play again, and the crowd went even wilder. Then he walked away from the piano, and there was a little booing. A few steps closer, more cheering. A few steps away, much more booing. He did this dance back and forth for at least half a minute, clearly enjoying "conducting" the crowd.
And then he staggered and fell off the stage. No no, I made that last part up. He was great.
#73re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/11/07 at 7:48am
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
#74re: Have you ever been to a show where the audience actually booed?
Posted: 4/11/07 at 9:15am
Actually, I have boo-ed loudly and emphatically at the theatre.
When I went to see pantomimes, where you get evil stares from your fellow audience members if you *aren't* shouting and booing and clapping and singing along. XD
Donal got a boo when I saw 'Pirate Queen'. He also got emphatic applause at the end of his final scene. I'll say this for the show, they were very successful in making a character the audience would all hate. ^_^
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