Shows with Stairs
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#1Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 8:59pm
I have no idea what the actual name for this is but I love it. I've seen some shows where the actor(s) walk down from the stage into the orchestra as part of he show.
What shows have them? and What is your favorite?
Motown (Diana Ross part)
Newsies (Jack Kelly Newsies' meeting)
The Lion King (animals) *favorite
Pippin (Pippin)
Once (girl walk in)
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#2Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 9:42pm
These shows also have (& had) them:
Hair (aside from the tribe running through the theater throughout the show, they had the moment with the tourist couple walk onto the stage & then sing "My Conviction").
Curious Incident (Siobhan and the Father)
On The Town (second act)
#3Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 9:43pm
They do it a lot in On The Town. They also did it a couple times in Anything Goes a few years ago.
#4Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 9:48pm
Actors in Matilda make entrences and exits through the audience throughout the show.
#5Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 9:52pm
Shrek. And I believe South Pacific had people going through the orchestra.
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#6Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 9:55pm
And if you want to talk about when they go into the orchestra pit then the last ship is a good example. What about shows with like a curved part extending over the the orchestra where actors are allowed to go on. Gentelmans guide and again shrek are good examples. So many nice set design elements
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#7Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 9:58pm
Hairspray had one of those walkways.
Edit: Just looked up the term for this. It is called a "Passerelle"
Updated On: 5/1/15 at 09:58 PM
#8Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 10:44pm
I was sitting in the front row at a touring performance of POTO. During the second act, a police officer pops up from the pit; a bit of action that remains the same from the Broadway staging. I thought the lady next to my husband was going to have a heart attack. I guess she wasn't too familiar with the show.
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
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#9Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 10:45pm
The original production of Pacific Overtures featured a sort of catwalk through the audience. There are also the racetracks in Starlight Express, which, at least in London, even circled up to the balcony.
Although the show that immediately jumped to my mind from the thread title alone is Carrie.
#10Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 11:07pm
Tanz der Vampire! 
Vampires run on and off the stage throughout the show.
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
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#11Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/1/15 at 11:21pm
Urinetown- Cops & Bobby Strong enter/exit thru the audience at points.
#12Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/2/15 at 12:09am
Bridges of Madison County - Robert entered from audience aisle
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#13Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/2/15 at 8:52am
I'm not sure if it eventually changed since I saw it at an early preview but Norbert Leo Butz made his entrance being pulled up onstage from the aisle and then later on the scene played part of it from the opposite aisle looking onstage at Aaron Tveit.
#15Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/2/15 at 9:06am
The dancing porters enter through the aisles in On the Twentieth Century. And Lily Garland "kind of" uses the stairs (when she is Mildred Plotka).
#16Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/2/15 at 9:30am
'Nicholas Nickleby' not only had the actors go out into the audience several times, but had catwalks and ramps all around the theater so that some key scenes, notably chase scenes and crowd scenes, were played as much in the audience as they were on the stage. It was awesome.
#17Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/2/15 at 10:26am
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#18Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/2/15 at 10:53am
Does your definition only include times when people leave the stage or is it any interaction with audience?
Cats had several of the dancers entering from the audience and crawling over audience members.
And of course, Rose enters down the theater aisle in Gypsy
The recent revival of Godspell had cast members going into the audience and bringing people up on stage.
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#19Shows with Stairs
Posted: 5/2/15 at 8:58pm
The whole plot of spamalot was about a holy grail underneath an audience members chair.
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