Scariest Moment in a Musical

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

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!

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When the Reflection Bride falls through the mirror in the Phantom of the Opera. It gets me everytime.

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"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!

lmao fosse76

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lol spider

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The whistle in Sweeney Todd.

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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.

"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.

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Wow, the ending of Cabaret definitely sounds scary and jolting.

In My Life.


The whole show = scary.

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I'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.

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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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