Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
#0Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:30amI know when I saw Bare I wasn't fully prepared for a stripped down John Hill. I was sitting in the first row and probably turned six shades of tomato. Anyone else have similar experience?
Deet: Shira, I Love You!
#1re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:36am
Seeing Cabaret with my mom.... sitting through "Two Ladies" with my mom right next to me.
And the time Adam Pascal looked at me during "Radames' Letter." My thoughts consisted of "Adam. What? WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT?! NO!" It was very rational, clearly.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#2re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:44amthe first time my mother heard bialystock's yiddish translation in king of broadway (her face was priceless)
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#3re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:44am
Sitting right in front of Andre as he sings....
lol
The Full Monty...need I say more...
Rent and AQ (front row AQ) (with my 70-something year old uncle)
#4re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:55amI refused to let my mom come and see me in The Rocky Horror Show (I was a phantom). I didn't want her to see me doing that kind of stuff.. *Blush* Total strangers? Didn't care. My mom? Yeah, that'd embarass the hell out of me.
#5re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:43am
It's so weird, the 3 musicals you do NOT see with family, I did.
Avenue Q and Rocky Horror with my brother (Q not as much)
Hair with my father (who commented how he preferred the Tel Aviv version).
'Nuff Said.
Deet: Shira, I Love You!
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#6re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:46am
Not at the show, per se- but listening to Contact for the first time.
On an airplane.
Seated next to my mother.
And while I had headphones on... my face was still a very nice shade of red.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#7re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 4:04am
Take Me Out.
Although having gone to an art college, I was quickly used to seeing naked men right in front of me, since I'd spent years drawing them. 
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 4:56am
i took my mom to Take Me Out. um yeah.
#9re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 8:57am
well, I wasn't uncomfortable - but my family was. I have a very VERY conservative, catholic sister-in-law (oldest of 7 children) and a few years ago my brother and sister-in-law and their two teenage children (at the time) came to NY and wanted to see some Broadway shows - they know very little about what's going on in theatre (they are midwesterners through and through!)..so I carefully explained the plots of everything that was on the TKTS board so that they could make an informed decision...I figured they'd pick stuff like Beauty and the Beast and The Music Man - but, go figure, they chose Rent and Fosse - and she HATED both of them...she was mortified at the mention of sex and homosexuality and scantily clad dancers in Fosse...I had to laugh to myself - what the hell did she think after I told her all about them and strongly recommended family-type shows?
Weird.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#10re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 9:33amWatching the play THE BOYS IN THE BAND with my mother when I was 15. Then the following year, seeing HAIR with my mother. We stopped going to the theatre together after that...
GirlfriendFromCanada
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/7/03
#11re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 9:53amI wasn't so much as uncomfortable as I was surprised during Caligula when Euan Morton was standing full-out naked for a good five minutes. I just wasn't expecting it. I'm sure others weren't either!
#12re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 9:55amSitting next to my mom, dad, and girlfriend during RENT. Awkward...she only smiled during Today4U
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone
amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
--Dave Berry
#13re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:03pmPuppet sex from avenue q with my best friends grandparents
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
#14re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:00pm
Front row Full Monty with my then 9- year- old sister.
A regional production of Bat Boy, also front row with my then 10- year- old sister.
It wouldn't have been as bad if Bat Boy hadn't been the round and my sister hadn't been staring in wide- eyed terror...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#15re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:21pmDavid Larsen's choreography that he has to do during "Don't Worry Baby" in GOOD VIBRATIONS. Updated On: 2/9/05 at 01:21 PM
kudzu
Understudy Joined: 10/19/04
#16re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:28pm
Tom1071
I'd have to agree, it's not my favorite either, of course it isn't HIS it's Carrafa's. He does it well, I just don't like it. I would say he seems to be the strongest dancer in the show.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#17re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:41pm
I think I made the correct choice my seeing The Full Monty alone.
Not to mention Angels in America...
CCM '10!
Updated On: 2/9/05 at 01:41 PM
GreenGirl
Swing Joined: 11/17/04
#18re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:48pmHey jonartdesigns, what exactly IS bialystock's yiddish translation...?
"Quien canta sus males espanta." -Miguel Cervantes
(He who sings frightens away his ills)
#19re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 2:16pm
Sitting between both of my parents when the curtain rose on Jeffrey in San Francisco. Not only were my parents the only straight people in the audience, my mother was the only woman and of course, we were seated front row center. When the show opened with two men having sex in bed, my mother leaned over and whispered, "I know what you're thinking and it's okay."
It was nice to see Stephen Caffrey just a couple of years after seeing Longtime Companion. The entire production was flawless.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#20re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 3:27pm
My orginal post stated:
David Larsen's choreography during "Don't Worry Baby" in GOOD VIBRATIONS.
And kudzu then said to me:
Tom1071
I'd have to agree, it's not my favorite either, of course it isn't HIS it's Carrafa's. He does it well, I just don't like it. I would say he seems to be the strongest dancer in the show.
I have since edited my wording so others will understand what I was trying to say, but in response to kudzu:
kudzu
Don't take me so literally. I am educated enough and enough of a theatre professional myself to know that David Larsen didn't create it. It makes me uncomfortable because I am embarrassed for him that he has to do it every night. I happen to think that he is very talented. I applaud him for being so committed to it as well, but it just makes me cringe.
Updated On: 2/9/05 at 03:27 PM
#21re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 3:28pmSeeing Take Me Out from the 4th row orchestra with my Aunt at a Wednesday matinee. Let's just say I am glad I had a coat on my lap. And ... there was nothing "semi" about it!
The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.
Updated On: 2/9/05 at 03:28 PM
#22re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 3:51pm
My mom seems to have the impression that, "But it's Broadway! Nothing vulgar or strange ever happens. I mean kids see these shows!"
I don't know what Broadway she's thinking of. She's coming wiht me on my trip to NY and she wants to see Ave Q, because "Puppets are harmless" we'll see what happens.
#23re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 3:59pm
sitting next to 4 old women during a take me out matinee and in the middle of the third shower scene the woman screamed out "oh no not again". I had to forcefully stop myself from laughing.
Sitting next to my mother, who didn't know I was gay at the time seeing, Cabaret. And her wondering why I was crying hysterically at the end. I had to explain what an upside down pink triangle was to her.
"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
kudzu
Understudy Joined: 10/19/04
#24re: Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments
Posted: 2/9/05 at 4:22pmSorry tom1071, I wasn't meaning to say you didn't know the difference. But I thought you might be one of the people who saw the show at Vasser and knew that David Larsen did in fact do some of the choreography, (he was the assistant for the workshop) so when you worded it that way I thought maybe you thought he did that choreography and was just saying that that wasn't one of his. I totally agree with you about the dance!
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