Scariest moments in a show...- Page 4

[je veux te voir2]

Posted: 8/24/08 at 7:15pm

the only times i've ever been scared in a show were two times with Phantom of the Opera.

The chandelier scared me ****less. lol. Seriously, for some reason I was spacing and when it fell...I was rather flustered. lol.

And then when they took off the mask in Phantom. I was seriously not expecting the extremely grotesque face underneath, and I yelped. Which of course caused all my friends to laugh at me.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 8/31/08 at 1:33pm

Ahem:

A production of Bat Boy I saw: It was both hilarious and scary, especially the opening, the Act 1 Finale (of course, one of my nearest and dearest friends was playing Ruthie and if you've seen the show, you know what happens to her)

the Beast always scares the crud out of me in any production of Beauty and the Beast I've seen

Caroline or Change: The Bus's entrance is pretty creepy

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Childcatcher. Thank you, Kevin Cahoon, for the chills

Curtains: Oy, the gunshots.

Evita: The funeral sequence

Fiddler on the Roof: (to paraphrase a line from Legally Blonde): Fruma Sarah scares me!!!!!!!!

In The Heights: The blackout sequence

Les Miserables: I was on the edge of my seat during Gavroche's death scene waiting for those gunshots to ring out.

Little Shop of Horrors: All the death and the carnage. Oy.

Mamma Mia!: Under Attack was pretty scary (even Sky in the wedding dress)

Mary Poppins: Temper, Temper was downright creepy

Miss Saigon: The entrance of Thuy's ghost and the evacuation scene. And it was even more scary when I was actually in the show being on the other side of that gate (namely the side that misses the helicopter)

Parade: The trial sequence was so intense. All these people in that courtroom with so much hate directed at this one man and then Where Will You Stand When The Flood Comes and the ending.

Ragtime: When Tateh's running after the train his daughter is on

Spring Awakening: What really scared me (infuriated me, actually) was what a repressive society these people lived in

Sweeney Todd: Well, that goes without saying, doesn't it?

The Light in the Piazza: The hysteria sequence

The Lion King: Too many to count

The Phantom of the Opera: see above

Wicked: When that monkey cage was revealed for the first time, I was so freaked out

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/31/08 at 1:37pm

You're all weenies.

[stupidbeans]

Posted: 8/31/08 at 1:38pm

When I saw wicked, the lights didn't dim before the music started in Act2. The lights were on and the music started. If you know the begining of "Thank Goodness", you know it's loud. Everyone jumped out of they're seat and screamed, it was quite funny. The lights dimmed though, halfway though the beggining.

[ThatTheatreKid.]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 12:19am

The pillowman - act one

It wasn't the actual play that scared me (Although it made me get pretty creeped out) , but while I was watching it (on the internet) a picture fell off the wall in another room and there was a loud crash and that's what really scared me.

I also am starting to have an irrational fear of pillows... thanks alot Martin McDonagh.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 12:34am

Sweeney Todd: Epiphany

[evadiva]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 9:42am

ha! Agreed Lizzie!

[shh282]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:27am

every gun shot in 39 Steps made me jump

[monkeybutt]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 10:55am

Gunshots scare me the most. I was gavroche in Les Miz a couple years ago. Even in the show, when I would sing little people and get shot it was the scariest moment because you would have no idea when the gunshots were coming, they would change it every night.

[Weez]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 11:28am

I'm... slightly bemused by the number of you who are scared of gunshots. Do you mean that they startle you and make you jump when they happen? Because I personally don't really equate that short, temporary, single frightening moment with actually being scared. "Oh it went bang it made me jump!". As a thrill-seeking fear-seeker, I'm MUCH more interested in hearing about genuinely frightening moments in plays than "oh it went bang it made me jump!" over and over again. :/

[stupidbeans]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 11:31am

I love sweeney, it is one of the best pieces of theatre I have ever seen. Maybe even THE best piece of theatre I have ever seen, but it was really not that scary, it was just dark and bloody.

[musicaltheatrefan3]

Posted: 9/1/08 at 11:41am

"Kim's Nightmare"

That was pretty creepy, and also everytime there is an unexpected gunshot, I always get scared on the first gunshot (but not last night at "The Producers", maybe because it was such a funny show for so long and it was still funny, I didn't get scared). Also, I never got scared when I heard the gunshots in "Ragtime."

[Celra]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 6:28pm

In RENT everytime Mark goes "THE POWER BLOWS!" and the lights are like directly in your face!

I jump everytime

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 6:33pm

Shut up Celra,

In Blasted, the explosion.... I don't get scared easily, but I almost had a heart attack. LOVED IT! haha

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 6:35pm

I always get creeped out ahead of time when the Wizard lets the monkeys free in WICKED. Not because the moment is scary, but because I'm always afraid one of the wires will snap.

Also, Violet during the dinner scene in A:OC. That's one scary woman.

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 6:41pm

I know that this is somewhat corny, but whenever there was a loud thunderclap **especially in the overture** in Young Frankenstein, I shot out of my seat. Thunder doesnt usually get me, but with the lights and everything, I don't know...

[osage08]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 6:56pm

The first time I saw August: Osage County I got a bit freaked out. Towards the end of Act 3 they use a low rumbling in the background. I didn't realize that it was part of the show. Coincidentally I heard police sirens and I think an ambulance going past outside right after the rumbling began. I was sure that a crane had fallen nearby or something. I was a bit confused when I left the theatre and everything was fine. It wasn't until I saw Osage for the second time that I realized the rumbling was just part of the show. I'm so paranoid sometimes...

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:07pm

The last silent intense moments of the Diary of Anne Frank.

[xbri0432x]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:16pm

gunshots. gunshots scare the crap outta me. even when i know they're coming, i always jump 2 feet in the air. and any screaming that's either very loud when i'm expecting it to be quieter or i'm not expecting it at all. that's practically all that scares me.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:20pm

When I saw Les Mis at the Signature, it was in a black box. You have no idea how scary "Lovely Ladies" is when they're all up in your face and you're an innocent, virginal child.

Also, Javert's Suicide. It was NOT the usual Javert's Suicide sequence.

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He shot himself before he sang the last note of the song and died, then the lights went red and the platform he was on rose up into the ceiling (a bit like Cats, actually). It was INTENSE.

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[BroadwayBelle2]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:24pm

A few scenes in Phantom of the Opera - I was 9 when I saw it.

[Manny2]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:38pm

I was exhausted when I saw CATS, I hadn't had a wink of sleep in two days.

I was half asleep most of the show but then all of a sudden I kind of snapped awake when they were doing the song about the magical cat.

It scared the do-do out of me, dunno why, it just did.

That's the only thing that's really "scared" me. I love it when people fly or dance at neck-breaking heights, or when chandeliers fall, it's great fun.

I don't like it if the lights are off for a long amount of time though. I saw a show once where an entire seen took part in pitch darkness and some of the cast members were walking around the house. You could also hear the crew onstage prepping for the next scene. I was seriously terrified that I was going to be mugged or sodomised or something.

[Weez]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:38pm

I wouldn't say you're all weenies, but I do stand by my statement that guns going "BANG" isn't properly frightening. If it makes you jump, it's startling. If you can't sleep properly afterwards, it's frightening. And if you can't sleep properly after a gun goes "BANG" without some kind of traumatic backstory, then maybe you are a weenie.

Not that I'm obsessed with Hamlet or anything, but I'm obsessed with Hamlet right now. Has anyone ever seen a production where the Ghost was proper terrifying?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:42pm

Gunshots don't scare me at all, but the circumstances in which people GET shot sometimes really scare me.

The LEAST scary gunshot is in Aspects of Love. Alex is too hilariously pathetic to ever be intimidating.

I've always wished I could see a production of Hamlet. I've read it so many times, and I absolutely love it, but I've never seen it live. Which is weird, because I've seen the Scottish Play at least eight times. The closest I've come to seeing Hamlet is The Lion King.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/9/09 at 7:46pm

I've seen I think 6 different productions of Hamlet and the ghost has never been scary. I don't think he should be. He's not really a malevolent force.

HOWEVER... I was the Scottish king in Mr. and Mrs. Mackers Go To Scotland and our Banquo scared me every single time he entered. He wore one of those clear Halloween masks with the face painted on.
Like this:

Scary.