Posted: 7/22/15 at 11:35am
I remember Davey in Newsies being quite a spitter. I'm pretty sure they even reference it in that rap that the Newsies made up and shot as a viral video.
Posted: 7/22/15 at 1:27pm
Isn't this really just the "name every lead in a musical that enunciates, and happens to be in a spotlight" thread? Fact is, whether you see it or not, actors who enunciate, spit. I've had any variety of performers spit in my eye in various shows. There's always that moment of "got you good that time, didn't I?" backstage.
It's unavoidable if you're hydrated and projecting...if you don't see it, you're still getting spit on. Or sweat on. Sitting down front while those dancers spin around and around? Gazing in awe with your mouth agape? You're drinking it.
Posted: 7/22/15 at 1:51pm
This thread is making me aroused.
Posted: 7/22/15 at 4:22pm
What are quitters for 500, Alex?
Posted: 7/22/15 at 4:36pm
I remember intently watching Lea Michelle's eyes for two shows while Groff was saturating her, it looked like a shower and the lighting from my angle was such that a rainbow of spit appeared. I don't know how she did it but she didn't blink.
Posted: 7/22/15 at 5:53pm
Douglas Sills....in little shop I thought he was going to drown inside of that helmet
Posted: 7/23/15 at 1:58am
As a singer, I sincerely hope I don't spit while I do it. I've never heard complains (but that's probably something no one would ever tell you to your face).
Posted: 11/14/15 at 8:47pm
hanabana said: Also, Ben Fankhauser from Newsies, both times I saw him in the show.
DramaTeach said: I remember Davey in Newsies being quite a spitter. I'm pretty sure they even reference it in that rap that the Newsies made up and shot as a viral video.
I saw Ben Fankhauser today in Beautiful (on tour in Boston). He was spitting up a storm. I loved it.
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Posted: 11/14/15 at 8:53pm
I know a lot of performers spit because they're enunciating and projecting, but the one show I remember where it was particularly noticeable was Newsies. Some of the guys in that spent half the show dancing in pools of there own saliva.
Posted: 11/14/15 at 10:54pm
So do Groff and others spit off stage or is this to do with only singing and projecting ?
God forbid if Jacki Hoffman was a spitter.
Posted: 11/15/15 at 2:05am
Honestly with microphones there's not too much projecting happening these days. And with this belt heavy scores, a lot of people are saving their voices.
I would chalk it up to enunciation, but then why don't women do it?
As a male actor, I can't say I remember any costars spitting at me in the face, or me spitting at them.
I think it stems from OVER enunciation.
Posted: 11/15/15 at 1:15pm
Interesting topic!
Adrenaline increases salivation and sweating, so the earlier post that noted that men spit and women sweat is spot on for physiological reasons.
Posted: 11/15/15 at 4:51pm
This thread has been around for almost 4 months and nobody's made a spitting/swallowing joke yet?
Posted: 11/15/15 at 8:09pm
Dan deluca in newsies. Felt so sorry for Stephanie styles. I sat in one of the last rows of the orchestra and still his spit was visible.
Posted: 11/16/15 at 5:53pm
Hilarious! I felt the spray with Billy Porter at Kinky Boots - 3rd row. But then when I saw Groff at A New Brain I was blown away!!! He definitely wins the award from anyone else I've seen. I guess its something you get used to in the theatre world, but I just wanted to keep wiping my own face for them...
#yaygroffsauce
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Posted: 10/20/19 at 4:59pm
Honestly, a lot of the Spring Awakening cast were spitters. I remember when Skylar Astin sprayed me.
Posted: 10/20/19 at 8:34pm
Ranger Tom said: "Men are spitters; women are sweaters. Greatest sweating I've ever seen wasDonna Mckechnie doing Music and the Mirror during the original tour stay in San Francisco. It was flying everywhere."
I’m pretty sure I remember the sweat pouring off of Gavin Creel in Book of Mormon. Though NOTHING comes close to Lee Evans, who must have been a dresser’s nightmare during the London run of The Producers.
