Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Jay94
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/11
#1Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 2:08amWhat is the loudest thing you've heard in a live show, whether it be a weapon, instrument, sound system, voice etc.
#2Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 2:44amBAD COMPany in concert.... i thought my ears were going to start bleeding.... terrible sound....
#3Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 6:25am
Act 2 of "Buddy-The Musical". 3 weeks later my ears were still ringing
The last few lines of the song "The Winner Takes It All" in Mamma Mia on Broadway. Had to cover ears
#4Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 9:09amPre-show music to Fuerza Bruta. I didn't know if I was going to be able to stay for the show.
PitPro2004
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#5Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 9:49amFinale of Grand Hotel. The work staff characters come out in grimy clothing, singing, while carrying these big milk crates with tons of metal utensils in them directly downstage. Then they slam them down on the stage with the force of sumo wrestlers...right next to the floor mics. The ensuing sound could be heard on Alpha Centauri. I grabbed my head, covered my earlobes and prayed for the inner earthquake to subside before I was certain it would lead to aneurysm.
#6Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 9:56amEden Espinosa screaming at me for 2 hours in BKLYN.
followspot
Broadway Star Joined: 12/27/11
#7Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 9:57amThe opening steam whistle in the original production of SWEENEY TODD. Scared the crap out of the audience. Maybe the most perfect instant tone-setter I've ever experienced.
#8Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:04amStritch
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#9Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:05amTie between the gunshot in the 2009 revival of West Side Story or when I went to see Phantom, the candelabras broke, it sounded a tree falling...
#10Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:08amI second the Sweeney Todd factory whistle. Scared the crap out of me as well...even my second viewing when I knew it was coming up- it got me again. Such a terrible sound!
dexter3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/13/08
#11Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:22amThe off-broadway production of Toxic Avenger. Definitely lost some hearing from that horrible sound design.
#13Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:44amFront row at Jersey Boys in London. I could feel my eyeballs jiggling during "Dawn."
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#14Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:56amLuPone's belch during Anything Goes.
#15Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 11:02amPretty much the entirety of RENT.
#16Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 11:03amThe beginning of Lysistrata Jones.
#17Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 11:20amThe one night only collaboration of "Rock of Idiots". Not to be confused with its far quieter counterpart, "Americans of Age".
#18Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 11:57amI agree about the Entr'acte of Mamma Mia! It was so loud and unexpected.
#19Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 12:06pm
As for actually during a show, the machine guns used in Tommy were deafening.
I love that Entr'acte for Mamma Mia! I thought it was a pretty clever way to energize the audience while making them shut up at the same time. Always makes me laugh.
#20Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 12:13pm^ That is true. It actually is one of my favorite parts of the cast recording. I just had no better thing to post.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#21Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 12:16pmThe machine gun fire in the opening of TOMMY.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#22Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 1:04pmWhen I saw Hedwig in London. I believe it was Michael Cerveris? It was so loud you had no clue what they were singing. Was not enjoyable. So many people had their hands over their ears.
#23Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 1:10pmThe gunshot that ends Gavroche's life in LES MIZ...
PitPro2004
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#24Loudest thing you've heard on stage?
Posted: 1/23/12 at 1:37pm
OH lordy, how could I have left this one out...
Whoopi Goldberg letting her frog out on The View.
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