Scariest Moment in a Musical- Page 3

[Aigoo]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:25pm

Sweeney's BEGINNING. Freaking scary if you don't know what's coming.

[Jekyll&Hyde]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:32pm

It's not a musical, but The Woman In Black on the West End, was the scariest thing I've ever seen, I've been to see it about three times now, and i suggested we go see it with our school and My drama teachers were in tears with fear.

[CrAzIaBoUtReNt]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:49pm

The gunshots in POTO made me jump. I wouldn't usually be scared of them, but they were unexpected. I also was freaked out by the ending of Cabaret. It felt like my heart died almost. Freaky. I also was scared when the piano fell on that guy in Titanic (I forgot his name), but I was like 9 when I saw it.

[Cenoern]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 6:59pm

The beginning of Sweeney Todd scared the crap out of me. The curtain rises, and they are just sitting there, pale, staring ahead... so creepy.

Front row at CAP Rocky Horror, when a phantom crouches down in front of you and stares you right in the eye for 30 seconds... then licks you... very creepy. Updated On: 11/29/05 at 06:59 PM

[Flahooley]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 7:35pm

Tyne Daly delivering EVERYTHING COMING UP ROSES. You wanted to yell "run, Louise, run...your mama is CRAZY!!!"

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 7:41pm

Sweeney Todd- not the beginning, middle or end...the WHOLE thing

"I made you and you wanna know why...ect.." portion in GYPSY

When Coalhouse is shot in Ragtime

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 7:45pm

When I was 4 and CATS had just opened, on the original album there is a large shattering of glass at the end og Mungojerry and Rumpleteezer that used to scare me for some reason.


Emcee4ever, sounds like you had a director who understood nothing about Cabaret.

[Piazzaslight]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 7:47pm

JekyllandHyde: I concur with you on THE WOMAN IN BLACK. That was the second scariest thing I've seen a play ever. The first was THE PILLOWMAN, when the almost-dead brother popped up. I literally screamed, and told the cast that afterwards (Well, everyone except Billy.) They all though it was good reaction.

For a musical, I agree with everyone saying the gunshots and the chandelier explosions from PHANTOM.

[OddExoticCreature]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 8:28pm

"Front row at CAP Rocky Horror, when a phantom crouches down in front of you and stares you right in the eye for 30 seconds... then licks you... very creepy."

OMFG. I can hardly stand being touched, if someone licked me I would die. Seriously.

[enjolrasissex]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 8:33pm

Sweeney Todd. That whole show freaks me out, yet I keep seeing it.

[kate2]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 8:41pm

just fixing the spelling of "scariest" on the "re:" line :) Updated On: 11/29/05 at 08:41 PM

[OddExoticCreature]

Posted: 11/29/05 at 9:34pm

haha Kate

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 11:15am

Epiphany and Sweeney's Death

[jasobres]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 11:26am

This didn't scare me, but it freaked me out:

When the Phantom came to the Masquerade in disguise and his mask is a skull and what was freaky was that the mouth moved along with every word the actor was singing! (How do they do that?)

[Nothatsmrt]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 11:32am

Ok, I know this is a little cheesy, but my first Broadway show was Phantom (1993, I was in 7th grade...yeah, yeah, I know). The first notes of the overture, and the tarp whipping off of the chandelier just scared the living $*** out of me. I remember cowering in my seat, half scared, half in total awe of the chandelier flying through the air.

Also, the whistle before The Ballad of Sweeney Todd begins...saw my high school's production of it a year after I saw Phantom...my friend and I literally jumped out of our seats!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 11:55am

Musicals never really scare me, but the moment I remember the most is from a 'straight' play, "All My Sons".

When the father goes into the house and commits suicide. The production that I saw had the most realistic set. An entire backyard with the back of the house with trees and grass (It was amazing). The father was played by Troy Evans (Who is the older guy on ER with the crew cut). When he did his final monolouge, then went inside, I had no idea what was about to happen. When you heard the gun shot, the windows flashed a bright white light at that very second. It was so chilling and upsetting that I started bawling like a baby.

As I walked out of the theatre, the director asked me how I liked it. I couldn't answer him, because I was blubbering so badly.

Updated On: 11/30/05 at 11:55 AM

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 3:00pm

For me Jekyll and Hyde was always so creepy. Especially when he kills Lucy and the transformation number is scary but incredible if done well.

The guy who played our Jekyll/Hydes name was Taylor Campbell and he's absolutely incredible. He goes to Evansville and hes a sophmore and has had 2 leads in their shows since his freshman year....he was so unbelievably creepy as J&H. amazing show.
J&H Pics

[Shay Jericho]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 9:22pm

I second "Epiphany" from Sweeney. The first time I saw it was in a smaller theatre than most of the huge Broadway theatres, and I swore that Sweeney was gonna come running into to the audience and slice my throat.

Every time I hear it now it freaks me out.

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 9:35pm

i've said it in the last thread and i'll say it again

the whole beginning of 'evita' god...:S how morbid!

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 10:13pm

I'd sya the emccee thing was high up there especially seeing norbert leo butz do it which i did. I'd say though was the chadilier for young views as well. I wa s5 when i saw it and i was in the highest balcony and could see him on the catwalks screeming go and i though he pointed at me as it crashed. My mom bought the poster and i thought at night he was coming for me so i always found that to be the creepiest thing ebcause it reminded me of my childhood.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 11/30/05 at 10:40pm

"This didn't scare me, but it freaked me out:

When the Phantom came to the Masquerade in disguise and his mask is a skull and what was freaky was that the mouth moved along with every word the actor was singing! (How do they do that?)"


The singing at that point is pre-recorded. The bottom jaw of the mask is attached to the actor's chin so that when he exaggerates his speaking movements the mask moves as well. It is quite creepy. Another bit from Phantom that creeped me out a bit the first time I saw it was when the ensemble suddenly starts singing together during the Don Juan Rehersal. The lights go down and it's just their faces lit from underneath.

And I'll add my vote to "Ephiphany" in Sweeney Todd. That is one creepy show. (An excellent creepy show.)

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:11am

The make-up in Cats scares me A LOT.

Updated On: 12/2/05 at 01:11 AM

[Sant]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:54am

The scene with the live snakes in WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND. Not the scene itself, but the snakes...

[Justin D]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:27pm

The Train scene at the end of Woman In White made me junp, shich was silly of me because i is only projected, and i was up in the Dress Circle (London), i think it may have been that i was high on flu medicne,lol.

[thejcm]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 3:51pm

TheatreDiva90016: Did you see that at Actors Theatre of Louisville? I saw their production (in the same weekend I saw RENT and Hedwig and the Angry Inch...it was an emotional 3 days..) and it was phenomal!