Have you ever booed during a show?
Have you ever booed during a show?
#1Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:32pmCan't find the original thread, so I thought I'd start a new one. I defentially thought about it for Light In The Piazza.
#2re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:32pm
No, never. That's for rude sports people.
Why for "Piazza". I really liked it.
#2re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:41pmNo.
#3re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:42pmWell at Beauty and the Beast, a lot of kids booed for Gaston during curtain calls, haha.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#4re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:42pmI booed this one time I saw SpellingBeeFan4Ever in a show.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:43pmI could have easily booed during IN MY LIFE, but the show was so bad I found myself laughing hysterically and didn't have the strength to boo.
#6re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:50pm
No but I felt like it when I saw the horrendous musical
Copacabana
or as I like to call it
Capo-Crap-Trastic!
#7re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:59pm
When I was in "Ragtime" a lot of people booed Wille Conklin, (after the show in person), as in:
"You are a horrible racist. What you said was horrible. I hate you"
Some people threw things at him during his bow
And he was a really nice guy.
I felt so badly for him.
Towards the end of our run, we had to do a pre-show announcement that the man playing Willie Conklin is an actor and that he does not agree with his character at all. It was pretty sad that some people can't separate real life from fiction. However, if those people hated him that much, then that proves that he is a great actor.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#8re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:07pm
In My Life was so unbelievably awful and inappropriately hilarious that I regard it as, perhaps, the single greatest experience I've ever had in the theater.
Gotta give Joe Brooks credit...as writer, director, and producer, he knew what he wanted to see and got it. You can't say the show was an amalgamation of 20 people's "visions."
Updated On: 3/13/08 at 10:07 PM
#9re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:10pmI've never booed because even if the material is that bad, I want to support my follow actors in delivering the material to the best of their ability. I think booing would just make things worse for them completely.
#10re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:29pm
"I booed this one time I saw SpellingBeeFan4Ever in a show "
omg ur hilarius. wen me grow i wana b jst lyke u.
(Rolls eyes)
MaronaDavies
Featured Actor Joined: 3/17/06
#11re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:35pm
Well at Beauty and the Beast, a lot of kids booed for Gaston during curtain calls, haha.
I heard school kids do the same thing to Javert at Les Miserables once. That's pretty common in children's theatre...the kids will boo the villain. I think it's considered appropriate there because it means the kids are responding to the character, not commenting on the performer or the show itself. It's probably the only time booing is OK and appreciated.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:39pmI have sat there with my arms folded while others around applauded like mad, during curtain calls for COAST OF UTOPIA: SHIPWRECK and SALVAGE, RING OF FIRE, and assorted other shows.
#13re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:43pmDuring We Will Rock You, i didn't boo. I did, however, at one point almost pass out from trying so hard not to laugh that I forgot to breathe. Funniest theater experience of my life, EVER. I literally cracked up through the entire thing. I was just shocked at how CHEESY it was.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#14re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:47pmI did stand and applaud hysterically at DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES. I have seldom laughed so hard in my life.
#15re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:48pmI'd never boo. I think it's disrespectful.
#16re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:50pmI thought about it during Lestat, but I was sitting by a goth, and I was scared he would hurt me.
#17re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:50pmPeople booed Marcus Chait at curtain call when he was in The Pirate Queen.
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
slimandslam
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/05
#18re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:00pm
Only hissing the villain, childrens'-theater style. (And hissing the stage manager at P.D.Q. Bach concerts, which amounts to pretty much the same thing.)
Never a heartfelt boo.
#19re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:01pmBring back the claque!!
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#20re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:07pmCaptain Hook's entrance and curtain call often get booed in PETER PAN. Paul Schoeffler's reactions were great. Same with Howard McGillin.
--Aristotle
#21re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:21pmNo, but I've booed a few times while reading BroadwayWorld.
Luvinbroadway
Leading Actor Joined: 7/18/03
#22re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:31pm
I wanted to during Xanadu...multiple times during "the show"...
Updated On: 3/13/08 at 11:31 PM
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#23re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:38pmYou just dont boo on Broadway period. No matter how bad the show is.
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#24re: Have you ever booed during a show?
Posted: 3/14/08 at 12:18amI've never boo-ed at a show, but I have audibly groaned once or twice.
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