Jumping moments

[livelife]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 1:24pm

what moments in musicals that make up jump or scared?

[vivs678]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 1:30pm

that one gunshot in les mis that kills gavroche (i think it's gavroche) made me jump.... but i also saw it a long long time ago.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 1:32pm

(**SPOILER**)

Not a musical but the random suicide in Speed of Darkness.

[philcrosby]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 2:39pm

The London production of INTO THE WOODS was stages almost as if it took place in a cuckoo clock, with little doors leading to the outside. After the Witch screamed and vanished after "Last Midnight" there was a huge BOOM and all the doors blew off as if in explosion. The characters were all alone and exposed to the giant. It was a very visceral scary moment.

[AlmostFamous]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 2:47pm

The gunshot that kills Gavroche always scares me! It seems most gunshots do...like the gunshots in Phantom ( there are 2) and when the flames burst up in Phantom, no matter how many times I see it, it always scares me

[MimiJudith]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 2:47pm

The loud whistle at the very beginning of Sweeney Todd.

Posted: 2/24/06 at 3:23pm

****SPOILER in MISS SAIGON*****


The moment when Kim offs herself in Miss Saigon-- you know it is going to happen and yet ya still jump if it is done right.


****SPOILER FOR JEKYLL AND HYDE*****

When Hyde slices Lucy's neck on the bed and the blood just oozes down the bed and makes it all over the floor.....

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:50pm

Not scary as in terrifying, but a moment that always scares the crap out of the audience is the first chord at the beginning of Act II in Mamma Mia!. The audience is casually making their way back to their seats, chatting to those around them, etc...and then BOOM! I always enjoy watching everyone who isn't expecting it JUMP!

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:54pm

The factory whistles in Sweeney, the gunshot in Assassins. The last one ALWAYS makes me jump in Everybody's Got the Right.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:55pm

On a similar note to my previous post..something else that sometimes causes me to jump is when I forget the order in which my CD's are in inside the changer and one of them starts with a loud chord or sound. The other night I had just finished listening to a very mellow CD on the way home and then all of a sudden that dissonant chord that starts LaChiusa's The Wild Party comes blaring through my speakers. It scared me half to death! The beginning of Wicked does that too...

[AlmostFamous]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 5:25pm

The first time I saw Aida...I jumped with the big BOOM in the first song!

[kec]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 5:56pm

In the final scene of Woman in White...

The train coming out of the tunnel made me instinctively duck -- each and every time I saw the show .

[tim10086]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 5:59pm

"the first chord at the beginning of Act II in Mamma Mia!."

Oh my God dude, I totally agree. There are "oh!!!"s coming from all over the theatre at that moment. I love it.

I'd like to suggest the gunshots in Blood Brothers.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 6:03pm

In The Pillowman when Katurian is telling the story of "The Writer and the Writer's Brother" and it's pitch black and then the brother gets electricuted and the lights flash and you hear someone screaming. I've never jumped like that before, at a theatre or a movie.

And the first whistle in Sweeney also startled me as well.

[little_sally]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 8:01pm

Oh, definitely that moment during The Pillowman in "The Writer and the Writer's Brother" scene. Freaked the hell out of me.

Sweeney's whistle...of course.

The gunshot at the end of the opening of the recent revival of "Assassins".

And the train at the end of "The Woman in White" made me jump out of my seat. I was not expecting it.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 8:07pm

Epiphany from Sweeney Todd

[maybethistime]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 10:05pm

The whole ending of Blood Brothers in London with the gunshots, the screaming, the tears, the policemen coming through the house... It scared me half to death.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 11:37pm

In Jersey Boys, when the guys are trying to scare Frankie and the gunshots go off.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 11:40pm

ASSASSINS: The final gunshot
SWEENEY TODD: The whistle, every stinking time!
THE PILLOWMAN: Moment in "The Writer and the Writer's Brother."

Darn you Sondheim! Why are your shows always so scary? Acutally, I quite enjoy it.

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 11:41pm

Yup, the Sweeney whistle.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 11:47pm

Every time somebody mentioned the Sweeney whistle, I had NO CLUE what they were talking about. Then I saw the show, and now I know, oh boy do I know, lol. *shudders*. Did not see it coming, lol.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/24/06 at 11:48pm

haha- I was the same way. What could be so bad about a whistle? Only Sondheim...

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:03am

Exactly, I heard whistle and thought to myself, "Whistle?! Ha! How is that scary?" The whistle in conjunction with the dramatic light change REALLY startled me lol.

[keatonbynumbers]

Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:16am

The whistle is worse in the OBC of Sweeney. It took years of practice to become as skilled as I am now at turning down the volume at the precise moment and turning it back up when it was over. :) I do it without even realizing I do it now.

On another note, I was not too bright last year and tended to listen to the Assassins revival recording with my headphones on as I was falling asleep. I mean, an entire recording just filled with gunshots, not really the best music to be falling asleep to.

[LorelaiGilmore]

Posted: 3/4/06 at 5:03pm

most of the gunshots in Les Mis, i saw it in boston on the 23rd and our seats were directly under where the gunshot noise comes from, so the first gunshot from there and the first gunshot to be shot at gavroche scared me so much(the other ones did too, but they weren't as bad)