Most standing ovations you have ever seen in a show?

[mule]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:05pm

The thread on Brooklyn getting several standing o's during the show made me think of this.

I saw the last Scarlet Pimpernel at the Minskoff. There had to be 10 standing ovations. Every big number had one and a couple of the ad lib lines that the cast added for fun got them.

It was cheesey but a helluva lot of fun.

I guess I became a Pimpie that day.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:11pm

Scarlet Pimpernel? Really?

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:15pm

Wicked. Definitely. And I saw Eden in it.

[mule]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:15pm

Guess I should have pointed that out. The show was closing temporarily.

It later came back after a brief tour at the Neil Simon.

But the current cast (Doug Sills, Rachel York, Rex Smith) were leaving the show and the current run was closing.

So the standing O's were not for a normal show.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:16pm

I would have to say when I saw Julie Andrews in VICTOR/VICTORIA.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:19pm

That would explain it then, mule.

[Derek2]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:23pm

Wicked (both times I saw it)
Little Shop of Horrors (1st preview)

[NBRISBY]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:29pm

Didn't see it, but my old voice teacher mentioned seeing Dreamgirls with Jen Holliday, and he said there was a standing ovation in the middle of tons of the songs, and that peoplke rushed the stage when she started singing "And I Am Telling You."

When do we get another show people are THAT excited by?

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:30pm

Standing O's DURING a show's performance have been pretty rare -- I have only experianced it twice -- Jennifer Holiday in Dreamgirls after I am Telling You and Audra and Brian Stokes in the pre-broadway LA run of Ragtime after Wheel of a Dream...

there have been many times there was lots of applause, but pure standing O's not too many I have seen

[Delphine]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:34pm

I've never seen Standing O's likes these, but during several shows I have gone to, I've stood up multiple times during it and was the only one. It's really embarrassing!

[Bobby457]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:35pm

Opening night of "Hello, Dolly!" with Carol Channing on Broadway. The last revival. It was amazing!

[Derek2]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:36pm

O yeah I forgot to mention this...I wasnt sure if it counted but now I guess it does

The last time I saw Wicked, most of the people (in the orchestra seats anyway) stood up after Defying Gravity and applauded

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:37pm

I heard from people who were there that Anthony Rapp got a 15 minute ovation at the START of the show at his last performance of Rent. There was also a mid show ovation for the killer version of Take Me Or Leave Me that was performed that day.

[Britt0913]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:42pm

The most I've ever seen was at THE NORMAL HEART. The cast ended up coming out at least three or four times the first time I saw the show because no one would sit down or leave.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:43pm

NBRISBY - Your voice teacher was correct, they occurred frequently - with many of us ending up standing ON our seats. Who knows when - or even if - it will ever happen again. Dreamgirls was truly once in a lifetime, for me at least.

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:44pm

I think some of us are confused by curtain calls and standing O's -- but that's just me....of course legends coming back and people leaving the show always add a dimension to a performance

[once a month]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:52pm

Nicholas Nickleby
The Normal Heart
A Chorus Line (the record breaking performance with hundreds of cast members)

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 2:01pm

Taboo closing night. I lost track when I hit 6 by intermission (there had to be atleast 15 or so)

Urban Cowboy sat after opening. The show was supposed to close that night but because of the audience response that night it stayed opened. (I honestly am not sure the audience ever really sat down much)

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 2:06pm

hugh after "once before i go" and bernadette after "roses turn"

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 2:08pm

On July 18th, I think Wicked got 6 standing ovations during the show.

[AnothaPartofMe]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 5:11pm

After Hugh Jackman's "Once Before I Go" from THE BOY FROM OZ...he stood there for a solid minute after the song for the ovation.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 5:14pm

I'm going to ammend what I wrote. The most standing ovations I ever saw was at the final performance of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (January 6th, 2002) There was a standing O after almost every single musical number.

[NativeNewYorker]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 5:18pm

The Boy from Oz...definitely.

[Becky]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 5:35pm

I heard from people who were there that Anthony Rapp got a 15 minute ovation at the START of the show at his last performance of Rent. There was also a mid show ovation for the killer version of Take Me Or Leave Me that was performed that day.

I was at Anthony's final show, and the ovation at the top of the show was only a few minutes (a minute or two at most after listening back). Felt like 15 though! Also, I don't remember anyone standing in my section after "Take Me", but I'm sure some people could have been -- that was one of the best performances of that song to date. I've still never been in a more enthusiastic crowd (including Kristin's last in Wicked). Anthony's show was insane - but the crowd always died down when they should have - which was surprising....

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 6:33pm

The longest standing ovation I can remember was for Bat Boy
AIDA also and
The Boy From Oz seems to only allow about a minute because they know the audience would never stop applauding Updated On: 8/27/04 at 06:33 PM