Lousy Wicked Crowds Really Hurt the Show -.- — Page 2

I don't think it's proper etiquette to applaud the leads when they enter. That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. There's no real reason to applaud Hilty or Bean.

I've never seen Hilty get entrance applause. It seems kind of sporadic with Bean, depending on how many Shoshettes are in the audience that night.

Funny you say Jerad had no chemistry with his co-stars. I feel they exact same way about David Ayers, who seems to be in a completely different show than everyone else. There was NOTHING between him and Bean during As Long As You're Mine.

Thats cool, Adam. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. What gets me most about Wicked is that it draws alot of non-theater people who can't behave themselves or be courteous in the theater. That was more my problem today and the focus of the thread than the cast itself.

What he's saying is that infamous actresses get no entrances. Like Sean Young or Courtney Love.

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Aside from the cell phone and the two women chatting (both of which are inexcusable), how was the audience rude? Because they weren't loud? Certain audiences are louder than others, but that doesn't make them rude.

I agree that a loud, enthusiastic audience is a lot more fun (for the audience as well as the performers), but the audience isn't being rude by not giving entrance applause or yelling enthusiastically after every song.

Its not about being loud but just some kind of energy. I really could see the cast straining today to get the crowd going. Everyone was just so flat. I just chalk it up to one of those days in the end. I imagine the next audience will be better. I always find that DRS, Spamalot, Avenue Q and Spelling bee benefit from an into-it audience.

I saw Chicago tonight.

And Luba suprisingly got entrance applause, and Brooke did not! I started clapping for Brooke and no one else did, lol!

The audience was a little dead. No standing ovation (only a few of us stood up) and a SO usually always happens when I see Chicago.
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hows you how much audiences differ, because I've read on another board that Brooke at one performance got thunderous applause when she came out on the latter for FUNNY HONEY and that wasn't even her entrance!

Updated On: 10/24/05 at 01:26 AM

Never got the deal behind entrance applause - or clapping after watching a movie. Now after sing the show-stopping song, that I can agree with, but just walking onto the stage? Nope.

This thread is really pretty absurd...

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I don't understand the obsession here with entrance applause.

I've seen some pretty famous people on stage - Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Julie Andrews, Sally Field, Billy Crystal, Denzel Washington, etc. - and they OBVIOUSLY got entrance applause, and when you see a star in a show, it's expected.

When you go see a third replacement cast of a washed up musical, why are people surprised that some girl name Megan Hilty isn't getting entrance applause? Not to say she's not talented - I don't know, and I don't care how good she is - but people aren't going to clap everytime someone new enters the stage.

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An enthusiastic audience will always make it a better experience for both the actors and the audience members, but with a lot of theses "long running" shows, they're just not exciting anymore. I'm not saying that because I saw them when they opened - and I'm not speaking for all of them - but most of them have certainly rusted over the years.

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Are you paying to see a show or to have an attentive audience that cllaps every time someone makes an entrance?

Don't blame the audience.

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I'm sorry, but this makes me so mad, everyone has their own opinion on if they want to applaude the actor/actress that makes their entrance. who are you to say its not proper etiquette to applaud them and to say that they dont deserve applause. it's your own judgement, dont think that you know all about broadway and your opinion is right. I'm not saying i know everything about broadway, but if you want to applaude and post your comments about what YOU think, then be my guest, more power too you. just be ready for the people who feel they have the right opinion and think they know everything. dont get all defensive about everything Wicked. its getting old. SirLiir was simply stating that the performance he went too didnt please him. That's all.

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VERY well said, Alterego.