#26
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.
Musical Moments You Will Always Remember — Page 2
#27
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!
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#28
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?"
#29
Posted: 9/19/15 at 8:12am
Where You Are - Kiss/Spiderwoman - Chita R
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#30
Posted: 9/19/15 at 9:39am
Michele Lee in 1973's Seesaw singing I'm Way Ahead
#31
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
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#32
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
#33
Posted: 9/19/15 at 6:28pm
Being Alive - Company - Larry Kert
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#34
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).
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#35
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.
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#36
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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#37
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)
#38
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!
#39
Posted: 9/20/15 at 1:05pm
Both Sammy Davis in Golden Boy
Night Song
Colorful
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#40
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.
#41
Posted: 9/21/15 at 12:43pm
"Midnight Radio" at the close of JCM's final performance.
#42
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.
#43
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
#44
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.
#45
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.
#46
Posted: 9/21/15 at 3:59pm
"Satisfied" from Hamilton, in previews at the Public. Probably the moment that solidified the show for me.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#47
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
#48
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.
#49
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.
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.
#50
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.
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