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Have you ever had the "What are they doing? Why?" moment during a show?
#50re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 3:04amThe horrible "choreography" in Wicked when Elphaba flips out in the classroom because of the lion cub.
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#51re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 9:19am
The gas mask waltz in CRY BABY.
(I personally think CORAM BOY was beautiful and brilliant.)
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#52re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 10:53am
-The gas mask waltz in Cry Baby
-The "performance art" section of Passing Strange
-pretty much all of the Grease revival
-having to hear Laura Bell Bundy attempt to hit that note at the end of "So Much Better."
-much of the lifeless, emotionless Les Miz revival
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#53re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:09am
The moment for me in All Shook Up was that horrible transition into "Heartbreak Hotel." - discussing how the guy's wife died, then he suddenly starts out with "WELL SINCE MY BABY LEFT ME"
A LOT of Legally Blonde, TBH. Here's the list:
- The last part of "What You Want." Bursting into an admissions committee? Yeah, I can only turn off my brain so much.
- "Whipped Into Shape." It's a fun number and an energetic song, but you can tell it's really just there so they can do a choreographed number with jump ropes.
- All of the lesbian jokes. Yikes.
- All of the "foreign names are so funny!" jokes.
- "Ireland" and the later Irish dance number.
- And, finally, that whole bathroom scene during the trial. Umm, what.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
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#54re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 11:34amIn My Life.
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#55re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 2:03pmThis probably isn't as bad as other mentioned, but I definitely had a dumb moment while seeing Spamalot. In "Knights of the Round Table," where the Lady of the Lake is scatting, Hannah Waddingham added the little 1-800 mattress jingle thing. Just the spelling. Well, when she sang 1-800-M-A-T-T-R-E-S, I really really thought she spelled it wrong. However, I know now that I was wrong, and she was right. LOL! But yeah, I got concerned for a moment that she spelled mattress wrong.
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#56re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 2:11pm
But every single move sybolizes something going on within the charecture.
The what?!
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#57re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 2:16pmWow guys, I am VERY surprised The Pirate Queen has not been mentioned yet. The worst part: Stephanie J Block pushes a kid out of her Vajayjay and then immediately gets up and starts sword fighting?! No way in HELL would that EVER, EVER happen.
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"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#58re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 2:40pmHaven as Margot. I mean she is just terrible and very annoying with her pointless "Ghettoness" leave that to Pilar.
#59re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 3:56pm
defyinggravity07,
Have you seen Asmeret as Pilar? Haven acts more ghetto than Asmeret does. I really miss the original Delta Nu girls where they each had an identity and didn't just blend into one another. Haven is just trying to stand out...which she does, but not in a way that is um, enjoyable.
#60re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 4:16pm
The horrible "choreography" in Wicked when Elphaba flips out in the classroom because of the lion cub.
Oh, God, yes! I remember watching that and feeling a horrible sense of awkwardness wash over me, and pity for the actors.
I vaguely remember a moment in Chorus Line when everyone is singing "hello 13, hello love" and then they burst out "dooo-doo-do-do" and kind of all danced together. I wasn't really sure what was going on there.
I actually really like the movement in "Mirror Blue Night".
#61re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 4:51pmMaybe not exactly while seeing a show, but basically the entirety of the new cast recording of Bare.
#62re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 4:56pmYes I did see Asmeret, I liked her. Ghettoness isn't required but the WAY Haven does is really dumb an at random points.
#63re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 5:06pmPractically all of Hot Feet. I had heard that it wasn't very good before seeing it, but I am a huge EWF fan so I couldn't pass it up. I couldn't believe how poor that production was all the way around.
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#64re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 6:05pm
Crap-a-cabana... Oh i am sorry.. Copacabana.. the musical.
I love Barry but this was worse then the worst sh.t i have ever seen.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#65re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/3/08 at 8:32pm
"In 'Knights of the Round Table,' where the Lady of the Lake is scatting"
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Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
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#66re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/5/08 at 11:38amhello,, FESTEN anyone??? That whole birthday song?? just god awful.
#67re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/5/08 at 3:52pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHK_R5yX20A Look at Glinda from 1:27 and on
Also, during one of Sho's DG's (might have been her last on the tour), she screamed (not the normal Idina scream, literally not even singing "LOOK TO THE WESTERN SKY").
Also, Caissie Levy once did something weird with "every one deserves the chance to fly"
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#68re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/5/08 at 4:00pm
I can't believe I forgot the great battle scene in PIRATE QUEEN, when the dancing/fighting suddenly went into slow motion.
Also the giant sheet of Saran Wrap that was lowered over the proscenium in CORAM BOY for a specific underwater scene. Wow.
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#69re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/5/08 at 4:09pmOh my goodness, I agree dalefully! I loved Bare when it was off-Broadway and thought the score was great. When I heard the recording I was like, "WTF? What happened to my show!?"
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#70re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/5/08 at 4:21pmI agree with the SA choreography. I need to add the whipping scene with Melchior and Wendela in act one.
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#71re: Have you ever had the 'What are they doing? Why?' moment during a show?
Posted: 5/5/08 at 5:36pmthe entirity of The Bomb-itty of Errors. But once I could process the experiance I had in that theatre, i enjoyed it.
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