Scariest Moment in a Musical
Scariest Moment in a Musical
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#0Scariest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:12pm
For me it would be the ending of Cabaret, especially the revival. For those of you who haven't seen it, here's a brief summary.
Cliff has just left on a train to Paris, escaping the Nazis. Then the Emcee came on, still imploring us to forget everything bad.
"In here, life... is beautiful," he said, painfully whispering the 'beautiful.'
"The girls...are beautiful. Even the orchestra is beautiful."
And he gestured; the lights focused on where the band should have been. But there wasn't any. Yet the music continued, the wall in front of the set fell away.
The set disappeared; the cast stood, shadowy and dim.
And then there was light. Not ordinay light, but a stark white light, one so pure yet so alone that you couldn't tell if it was a heaven or another place that you were seeing.
The increasingly discordant music built to a terrifying roar; the only sounds were an ominous rumbling that seemed to crawl inside you and a violin shrieking.
The violin stopped. Al you could see was shadows and white light. All you could hear was the rumbling.
Then there was silence.
"Auf weidersehen," the Emcee said.
"A bientot....."
Then, slowly, he took off his coat. He was wearing the clothes of a prisoner, a concentration camp prisoner.
The drumroll sounded. The cymbals clashed. And then there was darkness.
So, after that lengthy essay, what's the scariest moment for you?
Updated On: 11/28/05 at 08:12 PM
#1re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:25pmDAMN. THAT wasn't in the movie, which after seeing for the first time two months ago left me confused and not liking it.
--Aristotle
rose&lark
Featured Actor Joined: 10/10/05
#2re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:25pm
I'd have to agree, Emcee4ever, that THAT is a very scary, creepy moment.
I'd have to add, the chandelier falling in Phantom, especially for first time viewers who are young. I first saw the Phantom tour in 5th grade, and was terrified when the chandelier fell. That, and I was really, really scared of the Phantom in general. The creepy music, his actions during the musical, gave me the willies! 
#3re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:29pm
The beginning of Chicago always creeps me out. For some reason I feel Bob Fosse's presence and expect him to pop up in front of me.
The scene just before the "Bye Bye Life" scene of All That Jazz (when Joe Gideon leaves his hospital bed) is also pretty damned scary.
#4re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:29pmWhen the Reflection Bride falls through the mirror in the Phantom of the Opera. It gets me everytime.
#5re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:30pm
I was terrified the moment Phantom started as well, but for entirely different reasons. 
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#6re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:32pm
"I'd have to add, the chandelier falling in Phantom, especially for first time viewers who are young. I first saw the Phantom tour in 5th grade, and was terrified when the chandelier fell. That, and I was really, really scared of the Phantom in general. The creepy music, his actions during the musical, gave me the willies!"
At the speed the chandelier falls, the entire theatre could be evacuated to Jersey before it hits the floor!
#7re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:35pm
Im really honestly frightend by gunshots so the whole barracade scene in Les Mis made me want to cry, for multiply reasons.
phantom scared me after masquerade and the phantom disappears in the firework, but that show is just a great creepy drama!
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#9re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:37pmDavid Hasselhoff in JEKYLL AND HYDE. Gave me nightmares for weeks.
#10re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:40pmlol spider
#11re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:44pm
Les mis...just cause I HATE gun/bomb sounds.
The face of the phantom got to me when I was younger too.
#12re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:46pmThe whistle in Sweeney Todd.
elphatine
Broadway Star Joined: 5/1/05
#13re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:48pmI agree with the chandelier, bride and gunshots... can't say I've seen Cabaret on stage (I was only, like, 9 when the revival was out), but that sounds creepy and amazing. I'd have to say the train in WiW scared me pretty bad... it seemed like it was headed straight for my face, haha.
#14re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:49pm
If anyone saw Robert Wilson's musical of "Woyzeck" tour the county, that show was creepy from beginning to end.
Just buy the concept album titled "Blood Money." It'll give you a good idea what the whole show was like.
#15re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 8:52pmthe end of miss saigon. creepy and sad.
#16re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:19pm
"The whistle in Sweeney Todd."
That was creepy and hurt my ears
However the ending of Sweeney Todd is very creepy when Toby goes all insane.
#17re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:29pm
why is the end of saigon creepy?
the end of sweeney is scary to me too.
depending on how its done nancy's death in oliver can scare me.
havent seen it yet, but form the recording i could see anne in Woman in White be scary.
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#18re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:34pmWow, the ending of Cabaret definitely sounds scary and jolting.
#19re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:35pm
I have to say that the childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is absoulty frightening! The way he shreaks..." chiiilldreen"
very scary!
#20re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:38pm
In My Life.
The whole show = scary.
Alex LaVelle
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
#21re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:42pmThis one is more startling than frightening, but at the end of Ragtime when Colehouse is shot
#22re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 9:50pmI'm going to have to agree with Emcee4ever. I didn't see the revival, but we did that in school my freshman year, and the ending was creepy even then.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#23re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 10:39pm
I second the RAGTIME. I was expecting something to happen when he left the building, and in the back of my mind I knew it was going to happen, but somehow the way it happens (or at least was staged) startled me.
The opening scene of BAT BOY is scary.
--Aristotle
WickedlyPerfect
Featured Actor Joined: 11/5/05
#24re: Scairest Moment in a Musical
Posted: 11/28/05 at 10:55pm
The Phantom of the opera, when, in the beginning, the cover is taken off the chandilier and there is a loud bang and the organ starts to play loudly...
I was in the 4th grade, and It took me up until the time the movie came out to fully get over the fear that was the Phantom of the Opera. Not to mention when he first appears to Christine in the mirror, couldn't look into my mirror at night for years
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