Moments in shows that made you angry

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:44pm

Was there ever something in a show (Intentional or not) that made you angry? For me it was the scene in 1776 before "Molasses to Rum" in which the southern states demanded that the anti-slavery cause to the Declaration of Independence be sticken or they would never pass it. I have others I'll post later, but I want your responses.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:55pm

There are several spots in Parade....the trial, the ending....etc.

Also the scene in Ragtime where the fireman tease and insult Coalhouse and then destroy his car...and when Sarah is beaten to death.

Updated On: 9/2/05 at 09:55 PM

Posted: 9/2/05 at 9:57pm

I always get mad in Les Miserables when Eponine dies. In every production I've seen, she's always the best singer, so it makes me mad lol.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 10:12pm

The way everyone is entranced and joins in Tomorrow Belongs to Me.

The trashing of everything at the wedding in Fiddler

Christine sailing off w/ Raoul

"The Fall of Saigon"

Daniel telling Ti Moune: "I thought you understood we could never marry."

Most of the times a song was played/sung in Brooklyn b/c it gave me more of a headache.

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 11:00pm

"Daniel telling Ti Moune: "I thought you understood we could never marry."


Oooohhh! One of mine too. I'm directing this show right now so I see this happen every day and it makes me so mad.

[roquat]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:07am

When Harry Beaton gets hunted down and killed in BRIGADOON.

If I were him, I'd want to get out of that insufferably cheery kilt-happy utopia too. Is it really so darling and lyrical to trap a bunch of people in a town that wakes once every hundred years, so they can spend their lives mindlessly milking cows? Thrillsville.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:27am

when Jamie wakes up with his lover in LFY and when Cathy walks out after "If I didn't believe in you."

[C is for Company]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:37am

When Amy burns Jo's stories in litte women and when Nehebka gets killed in aida

[boytobroadway]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:46am

This isn't a moment in the show as much as a moment in the scenery. in "The fall of Saigon" in the non-equity tour I got very angry. There was all that meatal and crap at the top of the stage, so I was anxious to see what they would do for the helicopter. It gets to that point in the show, and I see this projected image. I WAS PISSED!!! Anything but an uncreative image on a screen. That put me in a bad mood, so dod the Chris' singing, well yelling really weakly.

grrr...they need an equity Miss Saigon tour
B2B

[C is for Company]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:50am

ha, how crappy was this hologram? was it realistic or...i dont even know what to think, I really would have to see it for myself or a pic

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 1:05am

When Oscar calls off the wedding in Sweet Charity.... that just pissed me off.

[Calvin]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 1:09am

Roquat -- you are so right!

Of course, I always thought that Pottersville would have been a much better place to live than dinky little Bedford Falls, too.

[boytobroadway]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 1:14am

The hologram in Miss Saigon was cheap. They made it look like it was fluing in and i was like, "THIS IS CRAP, HOW CHEESY!!!" It looked sort of real when it had landed, but the soldoers, just walked back into darkness to give the impression they went on the helicopter. I heard poeple laughing when it was going on and when it was done. I was angry though. The way they did the wall was good though, very well directed.

la dee da dee da,
B2B

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 1:44am

I agree that Oscar calling off the wedding in "Sweet Charity" is upsetting, but a very uncomfortable moment is when the Hunyak is hung in "Chicago" and in "Les Miserables" when Fantine and then Eponine dies, I don't like Cosette's songs so once the other two major female characters die I get pissed.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 1:49am

Every time the dragon lit up in Wicked.

But somehow I'm not sure that's quite the answer you're looking for :0)

[Madame X2]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 1:59am

When Sandy becomes a big skank at the end of Grease to win over Danny. That just pisses me off.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 2:02am

Oh my God! Of course, I forgot about that one, Sandy changing who she really is just to please Danny just kills the whole freaking women's liberation movement and the whole "be yourself" idea. Thanks, I soooo had forgotten about Grease.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 2:10am

When OScar pushes Charity into the lake. It's like "WTF?" There was no need for him to do that.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 2:19am

umm honey.... Oscar never pushed Charity into a lake, that was he bf early on.

And I forgot about Grease. I cant stand the movie because of that ending.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 2:25am

Really? I saw a regional production where after Oscar breaks up with Charity he pushes her into the lake and says "Sorry". Then CHarity gets out and says to the audience "You ever have one of those days?" Then the whole fairy thing. I guess it was just something the director added for that production I saw.

Updated On: 9/3/05 at 02:25 AM

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 6:20am

I certainly agree about BRIGADOON and that cheezy helicopter in MISS SAIGON. I'm kicking myself for forgetting about GREASE!

OLIVER! pissed me off several times, especially when Oliver gets expelled from the orphanage for asking for more food, and when Bill Sykes murders Nancy.

[WickedJerseyGirl]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 7:08am

When Glinda doesn't just grow a set and tell everyone the truth about Elphaba, dammit!

I think my first angry theatre moment was in Falsettos. A character dies from AIDS. I was young, growing up in the south and angry at everything. Alright you buffs, who was it and am I getting my plays mixed up? It would have had to be like 94 when I saw it.

That's a lie, I think my FIRST angry moment was when my grandmother took me to see Cats when I was 12. I was mad because I thought there must have been a plot or point I missed somewhere.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 8:10am

Sweet Charity has changed endings so much, the broadway revival doesn't use the original endding..... also thending in the chicago try out to the broadway one are slightly diffrent (she sings something better then this instead of bravest individul)



All of Rent made me angry.....why because i paid 65 bucks o see one of the worst shows ever written

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 8:21am

In Piazza when Signora Naccarelli breaks the fourth wall and says "I don't speak English, but I have to tell you what's going on." It's like, this gorgeous crystal of a show has been carefully built from the beginning of the show until that point, then it shatters and the show loses all the credit it has gained up to that point for having treated its audience like smart, inuitive people. Yeah, that part always makes me angry. In my opinion, it is that one bit of the show that made it lose Best Musical to Spamalot.

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 8:46am

This is likely to raise a stir, but I'd read the book in preparation for my first viewing of Wicked and, fully understanding the necessity of change when adapting anything for the stage,was particularly ticked off about the change to Nessarose's incapacity. A character without arms! Fascinating and particularly challenging for the actor. How would they pull this off?

Well, they didn't have to.