Musical Moments You Will Always Remember- Page 2

[rcwr]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 2:47am

Alison Luff's "Defying Gravity," national tour

Kyle Taylor Parker's "Hold Me in Your Heart," national tour

Jeremy Jordan's "Stronger," A.R.T.

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 3:08am

"For Good" - Idina and Kristen, the first time I saw the show. It was one of the rare occasions I went into a show knowing little to nothing about it. It was not at all was I expected or was emotionally prepared for back then.

 

"Stars" - Terrance Mann, when he returned for a limited run near the end. I was desperate to see him in it. The only seats left were the partial view in the first row. I'll never forget that whole show. During "Look Down (Reprise)" the ensemble got close enough they almost touched me and then to see my idol, that close, singing my favorite song in the show. All the emotions! 

Updated On: 9/19/15 at 03:08 AM

[nicnyc]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 5:19am

I have been going to the theater regularly since I was a little girl - so the list of moments I will always remember is pretty extensive at this point - but here are a few highlights:

Karen Akers eviscerates Raul Julia with "Be On Your Own" and then run fleeing down the aisles

Jennifer Holliday wailing out "And I am Telling You"

Richard Harris' reprise of Camelot when he seals his "victory" through Tom of Warwick

David Carroll's "Engame" from "Chess" 

Norbert Leo Butz' rendition of "Great Big Stuff" in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Audra McDonald's version of "Your Daddy's Son" (Even though I was trying to muffle it with my scarf, I was crying so hard I was afraid of disturbing others.) Stokes' "Make Them Hear You" also did me in.

Tonya Pinkins' rendition of "Lot's Wife"

Ted Neeley's Gethsemene

Jonathan Pryce's "American Dream"

Lea Salonga's Kim defending Tam from Thuy

Brent Carver doing the death tango with Chita

Glenn Close's "The Final Scene" in Sunset Blvd

Not a musical but have to include it - When the curtain went up on my dear friend Chris Chalk making his Broadway Debut playing Viola Davis & Denzel Washington's son in Fences.

Literally the whole show of Hamilton - but the individual moments were Groff's "You'll Be Back", "Leslie Odom Jr's "The Room Where it Happens", when Chris Jackson storms the stage with "Our-gunned, out-planned, outnumbered, out-manned" & Daveed Diggs' "What'd I Miss?"

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 8:12am

Where You Are - Kiss/Spiderwoman - Chita R

[Jim3]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 9:39am

Michele Lee in 1973's Seesaw singing I'm Way Ahead

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 9:49am

It's Not Where You Start - Seesaw - Tommy Tune

Never Met A Man I Didn't Like - Will Rogers Follies - Keith Carradine

[MVintheheartland]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 4:56pm

"Defying Gravity" --Wicked (Sandra J. Bloch)

Thanks to FindingNamo for reminding me-"What Did I Miss"--Hamilton. (I LOVE Daveed Diggs)

"Our Time"--Merrily We Roll Along

"Opening Doors"--Merrily We Roll Along

The opening of "West SIde Story"--it was a revival in Chicago,with original choreography. I had goosebumps almost the whole production (except when 10 year old son and his friend, who were dragged along to "get culture", complained loudly about the lack of blood during the rumble. Sorry about that.)

"I'm Alive" -- Next to Normal

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 6:28pm

Being Alive - Company - Larry Kert

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 6:34pm

Alison luff in wicked, the finale of pippin, the ending of Carrie, and all of carousel(especially the ballet).

[Julie Yard]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 6:56pm

And I'm Telling You - Jennifer Hoilday - Dreamgirls

2 Catholic twenty-somethings went completely speechless for the intermission and beyond (and our normal states were total blabbermouths). I don't think either of us knew that people would let themselves feel that much, and then express is aloud!?!? OMG! Shattering. 

[Demitri2]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 7:59pm

Ann Sothern in a stock version of GYPSY - the audience was standing half way through "Rose's Turn". I've seen every Rose after Merman on Broadway and this was a first and only occurrence.

Liza singing "Sing Happy" in FLORA.

Lansbury in MAME. Saw the show three times and she never waivered in her performances And scored in all her musical numbers. Wonderful memories.

Sammy Davis singing "No More" from GOLDEN BOY.

Streisand alone on the stage singing "The Music That Makes Me Dance" from FUNNY GIRL.

Sutton Foster singing "Gimme, Gimme" from MILLIE.

Robert Preston and Barbara Cook during the bridge scene singing "Til There Was You" (my very first Broadway show yet I can still recall the moment like it was yesterday).

Tammy Grimes singing "Home Sweet Heaven" in front of the curtain in HIGH SPIRITS.

Donna McKechnie performing "Turkey Lurkey Time" from PROMISES, PROMISES

Lucie Arnaz singing "I'm Way Ahead" from SEESAW..

Patti Lupone performing "Buenos Aires" from EVITA. No other Eva had the choreography down like Patti did of the seven actresses I saw in the role (there were lots of Eva alternates in the summer long pre-Broadway run in Los Angeles so comparisons were easy).

Robert Preston's rendition of "I Won't Send Roses" from MACK AND MABEL.

Dorothy Louden's "Fifty Percent" from BALLROOM.

 

 

 

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[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 9/19/15 at 8:04pm

Finale from Godspell - Original SF Cast

First 16 bars of ACL - Almost any production I've seen.

Music and the Mirror, ACL - First Tour, SF

Children peeking out from behind curtain - Oliver, OBC (my first Broadway moment)

 

[phantom phan2]

Posted: 9/20/15 at 5:27am

the moment i first saw the chandelier rise at the beginning of phantom. I was young and it blew me away!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/20/15 at 1:05pm

Both Sammy Davis in Golden Boy

 

Night Song

Colorful

[DigificWriter]

Posted: 9/20/15 at 11:17pm

Geting to see most of the OBC of Beauty and the Beast perform the show in L.A at the Shubert Theater in 1995.

[TheBrightestStar]

Posted: 9/21/15 at 12:43pm

"Midnight Radio" at the close of JCM's final performance.  

[Actriz2]

Posted: 9/21/15 at 1:04pm

Michael Cerveris in Fun Home, standing in the lights, during the final moments of "Edges of the World."

 

An image that will never, ever escape from my brain.

[newintown]

Posted: 9/21/15 at 1:36pm

All of the original production of Nine, particularly the Overture and "Getting Tall," 46th St Theatre, 1982

 

The original Broadway cast performing Sunday in the Park with George (particularly "Sunday," at the end of each act), Booth, 1984

 

The anarchic, music hall fun of the original production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Delacorte, 1985

 

The wild, maniacal energy of Romance In Hard Times, Public Theater, 1989

 

The non-stop motion of Tommy Tune's staging for Grand Hotel, Martin Beck, 1989

 

The original cast performing Falsettoland (particularly "What Would I Do?" and Whizzer's death), Playwrights Horizons, 1990

 

The jaw-dropping horrifying bad taste of The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Lunt-Fontanne, 1994

 

The survivors of the Titanic walking through the memory of those who died, then singing the finale reprise of "Sail On," Lunt-Fontanne, 1997

 

The utter ridiculousness of Robert Cuccioli duetting with himself, throwing his hair back and forth with enough intensity to induce whiplash, Jekyll & Hyde, Plymouth, 1997

 

The sheer delight of the animal parade at the start of The Lion King, New Amsterdam, 1997

 

Seeing Sutton Foster become a star delivering "Gimme, Gimme," Thoroughly Modern Millie, Marquis, 2002

 

Victoria Clark singing "Fable," The Light in the Piazza, Vivian Beaumont, 2005

 

Jessie Tyler Ferguson singing "I'm Not That Smart," 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Second Stage, 2005

 

Beth Leavel and Danny Burstein in The Drowsy Chaperone, Marquis, 2006

 

Christine Ebersole singing "Another Winter in a Summer Town," Grey Gardens, Playwrights Horizons, 2006

 

Faith Prince singing "Vision," A Catered Affair, Walter Kerr, 2008

 

The entirety of The Scottsboro Boys, Lyceum, 2010

 

"Come To The Fun Home" and "Ring of Keys," Fun Home, Circle in the Square, 2015

 

Chita Rivera performing a miracle in "Love and Love Alone," The Visit, Lyceum, 2015

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 9/21/15 at 1:47pm

Since someone already mentioned my most memorable moment (Natasha Richardson singing the title song from CABARET), I'll go with my runner-up.  It was the second number in the first Broadway show I ever saw.  From the blare of the opening trumpet to the stillness achieved by the dancers through most of the song to their bodies forming a slithering, amoebic-like unit, I was changed forever.  That would be Big Spender from the '86 revival directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse.  

[maxkko]

Posted: 9/21/15 at 2:38pm

The show that made me want to pursue Musical Theater was Peter Pan. I was five years old and I was seeing my first ever show. At the end when she flew over the audience, is a moment I will never forget.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/21/15 at 3:59pm

"Satisfied" from Hamilton, in previews at the Public. Probably the moment that solidified the show for me.

[CarlAlan610]

Posted: 9/21/15 at 8:42pm

Sutton Foster - Gimme Gimme Thoroughly Modern Millie

Jeremy Jordan - Stronger Finding Neverland (ART)

Laura Michelle Kelley and company - the death scene in Finding Neverland (ART)

Corey Cott and company - Seize the Day - Newsies

Wheels of a Dream and the end (when the little boy runs out) in the 2009 Ragtime revival 

[jwsel]

Posted: 9/23/15 at 3:48pm

Caroline, Or Change: Tonya Pinkins performing Lot's Wife.  Also, the very opening, when the atonal music made me think I would never be able to sit through the show.  How wrong I was.

Pippin revival: Two moments in Magic to Do -- when the Leading Player is silhouetted behind the curtain and when the curtain drops to expose the entire company.  Also, Andrea Martin's rendition of No More Time at All.

Ragtime: Your Daddy's Son, Make Them Hear You, and Til We Reach That Day.

Fosse:  Mr. Bojangles with Desmond Richardson as the spirit.  How I wish there was a video of that number.

Drowsy Chaperone:  So many of Man in Chair's comments ("Try not to think about the poodles," "The Man of One-Thousand Voices, all of them offensive," "'Please, Elton John, must we continue this charade?", and the final scene where he talks about guilty pleasures and starts to sing "Stumble Along," with the other characters joining in.

Blood Brothers: Tell Me It's Not True.

And just for the sheer unadulterated horror I experienced, the opening caterwauling of The Black Rider, by far the worst musical I've ever suffered through.

[serene_embers]

Posted: 9/23/15 at 4:12pm

Susan Egan performing "Home" in Beauty and the Beast in LA. I was about 9 and it was the first musical I was ever obsessed with. My Dad took me and when he passed away two years later "Home" took on a whole new meaning.

The chandelier in Phantom.

Teal Wicks' "Defying Gravity" at the Orph in SF (my first live DG).

Touring production of Spring Awakening doing "Touch Me".

Jeremy Jordan's "Neverland" at A.R.T.

[NewsiesForever]

Posted: 9/23/15 at 4:55pm

The joy I felt in my heart the first time I saw Newsies. 

But my first time in a theater will always stay with me seeing Beauty and the Beast on broadway. It was amazing so beautiful. I had been to Disney World, so I had seen their show with the characters in costume. But the broadway show blew it out of the water. The music, the costumes, the sets, the dancing. Still gives me goosebumps. 

The first time I saw wicked, I had to wait to see because I was out of the country when it premiered so I refused to let anyone spoil it for me. At the end when Elfaba 'melted' and honestly we knew it was coming. I was balling my eyes out after For Good, repraise thinking she had died and then Fieyro appeared out of nowhere and opened a door at the bottom of the floor and out popped Elfaba. I was so shocked! By the end of the show I was a mess. 

But I loved it.

Everytime I go see a new show even I have seen it before there is always something new to see and learn.