Loudest thing you've heard on stage?- Page 2

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 2:00pm

Merman

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 2:17pm

Three-year-old me sat through Beauty and the Beast with my hands over my ears, or so I'm told. I remember being terrified by the Beast jumping out at Belle when she's in the rose room.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 3:51pm

Agree with "Mamma Mia" Have seen the show five times and the opening notes of the second act never fail to make me jump even though I know it's coming.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 4:06pm

The play NEXT FALL opens with the sound of a car crash that is so loud that you feel like you were just in the biggest wreck of your life.

No one warned me and I almost pooped my pants backstage.

[Huss417]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 4:30pm

I also agree with the whistle in the original Sweeney Todd. I remember the first time it went off the person next to me elbowed me in the side. They jumped and I jumped.

[Emmaloucbway]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 4:42pm

- Entracte of Mamma Mia
- Bonnie and Clyde (so many gunshots!!)
- Sweeney Todd whistle.

[singtopher]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 4:59pm

While teching a regional production of LES MIS, a techie put a little too much gun powder in a contraption to signify a mortar going off. A clock in the back hallway flew off the wall.

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 5:28pm

Idina Menzel.

[LegallyBroadway2]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 5:42pm

I'd say the loudest I've heard over all was, wait for it, Spider-Man. it always depends where you sit, yea, but in the open house its fuc*ing loud!! which, for me, I love tremendously. American Idiot was loud too, but their sound rigs were not as full as spider-man.

Mamma Mia's entr'acte and Lyssie J's opening were both like piss your pants moments haha.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 7:18pm

Another vote for the Sweeney Todd whistle. I've heard quieter gunshots.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 7:34pm

Those gunshots in War Horse! Oy!

[gypsy4]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:18pm

the Beasts roar in Beauty and The Beast during the west wing scene the entire audience jumped.
Mama Mia Enter'acte: It scared the crap out of the audience when I saw the show so abrupt.

[winston89]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:58pm

In addition to going to the theatre a lot, I also love going to rock concerts. That being said, most rock concerts are louder than any show on Broadway.

I agree with Mamma Mia's act two opener. To me, it has to do with the volume of the music and the fact that it comes out of nowhere to start act 2. I don't feel the same with the start of the show because even though the volume is the same, the pre show announcement takes away the element of surprise.

I also don't like gunshots at all. To me, it doesn't matter if I have seen the show before and know when they are coming. I will still cover my ears for them. I have very sensitive hearing and that is something that makes me jump and unhappy regardless of if I know it's coming or not.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 1/23/12 at 10:59pm

I also agree with the Mamma Mia entr'acte

[voteforsaraberry]

Posted: 1/24/12 at 3:26pm

In the beginning of the new Godspell revival, when Prepare Ye picks up. I've seen the show twice, and even though I knew it was coming it scared the living crap out of me.

[morosco]

Posted: 1/24/12 at 4:20pm

i remember starlight express being unbearably loud. problem nothing compared to some of today's levels.

[GimmeABreak2]

Posted: 1/24/12 at 10:54pm

The rave music blasting on in the opening of Jerusalem.

[whatever2]

Posted: 1/25/12 at 12:09am

American Idiot.

all of it.

Seriously, though, i vaguely recall something profoundly deafening during Journey's End.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 1/30/12 at 12:34am

The gunshots in Les Mis. Also when I saw the 1NT of Wicked in Hartford right before the cornfield/catfight scene the crashing noise from the tornado was so loud everyone thought the theatre was collapsing, it shook the seats and the walls.