Semi - Uncomfortable Broadway Moments

[shira467]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:30am

I 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?

[luvtheEmcee]

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.

Updated On: 2/9/05 at 12:36 AM

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:44am

the first time my mother heard bialystock's yiddish translation in king of broadway (her face was priceless)

[BSoBW2]

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)

[thespian geek]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:55am

I 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.

[shira467]

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.

[FabalaCohen]

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.

[Musetta1957]

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.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 4:56am

i took my mom to Take Me Out. um yeah.

[redhotinnyc2]

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.

[wildcat]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 9:33am

Watching 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]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 9:53am

I 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!

[BroadwayNick]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 9:55am

Sitting next to my mom, dad, and girlfriend during RENT. Awkward...she only smiled during Today4U

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 12:03pm

Puppet sex from avenue q with my best friends grandparents

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

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...

[Tom1071]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:21pm

David 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]

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]

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...

Updated On: 2/9/05 at 01:41 PM

[GreenGirl]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 1:48pm

Hey jonartdesigns, what exactly IS bialystock's yiddish translation...?

[Mister Matt]

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.

[Tom1071]

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

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 3:28pm

Seeing 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!

Updated On: 2/9/05 at 03:28 PM

[EponineThenardier]

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.

[umgeoboy]

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.

[kudzu]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 4:22pm

Sorry 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!