I have to say, the big bobblehead type wiz o mania things in Wicked are quite weird. When i was little and saw Les Mis, i was petrified of the gun shots also, as someone mentioned earlier.
The first scene in the top stage with the drilling made me cry. I'm a real horror movie guy, but I couldn't take it. I LOST it. Ask C is for company, he found it amusing.
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The Pillowman had by far some very scary moments- I actually heard people yelp at the performance when Katurian goes into his old room and his brother pops up after he thinks he's dead from under the matress- crazy disturbing.
DefyingPopular --- those big bobblehead type wiz o mania things in Wicked...
...are called Hammer-Heads. They ARE disturbing. They're in the original Baum book "The Wizard of Oz"... and they look just like that in the illustrations. Dorothy and her three friends fight them off on their way to see Glinda toward the end.
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Thanks for the name... Sorta off topic, but Wicked related, and it's scary, did anyone ever see the laserdisc version of the 'Wizard Of Oz'? Where the Wicked Witch (elphaba i guess..) appears in the mirror when dorothy is standing in the bathroom? The witch and dorothy scream and then it fades to black? It sort of reminds me of the scene in which Elphaba comes out of the mirrored closet... Anyways, that scene of the WoO scared me for life.
For me... I've never seen a musical which actualy scares me... WiW is pretty funny... and for me Chitty is like a pantomime! But I have to say Woman In Black is the scariest thing I have ever seen in my life! I was sitting in the 3rd row in the middle of the stalls alone.... I was shaking SO badly at end of Act 2 that I could hardly stand up to applause! And the end of the curtain call when the face reappeared... that was bad too.... then i was waiting outside the stagedoor and (for those who've been) it's black and dark anbd windy ... it was scary....
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I agree with the whistle in Sweeny Todd and the lynching in Parade Also when Tony gets shot at the end of West Side Story. That gets me everytime. I always think "Oh yay the lovers are reunited, maybe he won't get shot this time." But he always does.
You must think I'm still sixteen.
I dropped out of high school for a reason.
And I don't care if you're pretty. I'm not admitting you are right.
My soul is not a stage.
I won't pretend I'm anything I'm not
Barbara Cook shrieking "Witch! Witch!" as her chair levitates ten feet into the air as a wall of fire erupts between her and Carrie. Carrie turns around to face the audience, revealing both hands aflame, then... "I am not afraid of you at all, I have nothing left to lose, I have power I can use, And nothing you can say or do, Will ever stop me again..." Carrie turns her back to the audience and vanishes into the darkness, a pin spotlight centers on Barbara Cook's horrified expression and she appears to be a floating head in the vast darkness as the fire wall slowly burns below her. The act ends in complete silence as the curtain slowly falls.
I saw it with my own eyes, apparently the chair effect did not work at the majority of performances on Broadway.
I saw a high school production of Sweeney Todd at the ITC at Nebraska over the summer and the, as I like to call it, Oven Dance was horrifying. It was the first time I've heard an audience actually scream at something in a show. Yikes.
yes the ending of Cabaret was entirely creepy, like the goosebump creepy. Ah i miss that show.
"But I relish every brillant inspired moment. This is who I'm determined to be- an actor/singer/dancer-no, I take that back, this is who I am. These people are my tribe, my destiny. I know it.
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