Stopping the show

Was at Wicked yesterday (matinee), and during the Evita parody segment in "Thank Goodness," the crowd started laughing. Then the laughter picked up so strongly that Kristin couldn't finish delivering her line, and I believe there were smatterings of applause, and Kristin had to go back and improv, "As I was saying," to complete it. It stopped the show dead for a good half-a-minute.

Anybody else have any stories of moments of audience joy that have stopped a performance that didn't happen at the end of a song?

-Wayne

Cadriel, I also heard that the Wizard's head was working during yesterday's matinee?

Here's a fun story, even though it didn't stop the show (it just prlonged a kiss): During Thoroughly Modern Millie, when Jimmy and Millie kiss right after the fight and right before "Jimmy," a little girl screamed "eeeeeeee(now she goes an octave higher)EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" when Christian and Sutton locked lips. So the kiss lasted much longer than it should have and the audience continued laughing after the kiss was over and through the entire beginning of the song.

Nathan Lane singing "Betrayed." At the end of the song, he struck his pose with his arm outstretched towards the audience. The audience applauded for a good 4 minutes, the transition to the next scene lasted quite a long time, as the actors were trying to do something to wait for the audience to stop applauding.

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No, she doesn't - I saw it during previews and she didn't, and an acquaintance who saw it twice in previews said this was the only time she'd seen Kristin do that particular adlib. The audience at that matinee was seriously into the show.

-Wayne

When I saw Gypsy in August, everyone went bananas when Bernadette entered from the rear orchestra. I'm sure it happens every night, but it seemed so insane this night (the audience was particularly vibrant...and the whole cast seemed to be really vampy and fun) that Bernadette stopped and faced the audience and took a little bow to quiet them because she couldn't deliver her lines and the kids started smirking. It was actually so much fun to see it be so interactive.

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