The Audience at Sweeney Tonight- Page 2
The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
#25re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:47pm
Wow, just read my last post. What a pathetic freak.
Anyway, I hope the Sweeney cast is as energetic next time I get to see them.
Bohemian1232
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/26/05
#26re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:47pmIt sounds like it was a great show. Thanks for sharing!
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#27re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:48pm
Thank you for sharing this! I am excited ot know they know we support them and they still have heart after the Tonys 
I really wish I could have been there.
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#28re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:48pm
Eh, I have to go see a night show. It was pretty much dead when I saw it.
I'm glad the audience had so much energy tonight!
#29re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:48pmOhhhh, tonight there was a middle-aged, balding man in the front row, and Mano could not get enough of him during Pirelli's Miracle Elixir. He came back to him at least 6 times, with the bottle, with the bow, and also just because. It was priceless.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
ihearttheatre
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#30re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:52pmGlad you had such a special experience!
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#31re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:54pm
Wow, I've never seen a full-on applause after songs, unless at the black outs. I LOVE Johanna with Mark Jacoby, he is so great to watch onstage. Were there any laughs during the song? The first times I had seen it nobody laughed thankfully. Then somebody mentioned a story seeing the show and people laughed at the content!
I was surprised reading that story and the next time I went, winds up I hear laughter in the back orchestra! I immediately thought of BWW when the same the happened to me
#32re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:56pm
There was a little bit of laughter, but not much.
And if any of the cast of this show end up reading this, just know that tonight was the most special theatrical experience I have ever had. Thank you.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#34re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/13/06 at 11:58pmThe very back sides of the Mezz were completely empty, but from what I could see it looked to be doing okay. Not great, but okay.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#35re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:02am
What a great experience--audiences can sometimes make big differences in a show.
I suppose it was a slight improvement over the entertaining audience I saw Sweeney with last week. Well, at least people near my friend. One person didn't know what a revival was, but the best...someone was reading through Patti's bio in the playbill and saw that she was in Passion...so this girl goes...OMG, she's on Passions?? I love that show! What character does she play?
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#36re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:04amHaha, priceless QT! I totally agree about the audience, especially after tonight's preformance.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#37re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:09amUmm, who's QT?
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#38re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:11amsorry, what a weird typo to make, twas supposed to saw wrq.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#39re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:14am
Maybe my icon distracted you...QT...cutie
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#40re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:16am
Lol, that's also part of my AOL screen name, so it's muscle memory too.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
Updated On: 6/14/06 at 12:16 AM
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#41re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:20amI wanted to be there so badly tonight, but couldn't. Plus I had just seen it Saturday. I am so proud of this cast, they have more heart than any broadway show I've ever seen. There really is no better cast on Broadway.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#42re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:21amAgreed. They deserve so much. Every one of them is extremely talented and dedicated and kind.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#43re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:34am
I was there as well, and had a great conversation with aspiringactress beforehand (and talked to you after. ).
Honestly, it was magnificent. The immediate standing ovation at the end was icing on the cake. The audience just LOVED it. She was right to describe it as a "rock concert" of some sorts. It felt so great to be with an audience who obviously adored the show.
"Ohhhh, tonight there was a middle-aged, balding man in the front row, and Mano could not get enough of him during Pirelli's Miracle Elixir. He came back to him at least 6 times, with the bottle, with the bow, and also just because. It was priceless."
Everytime he went to that guy I laughed -- and the stare down was terrific. Really, everything kind of stopped and the woman had NO idea that Manoel was staring at her. XD
It was honestly the best theatrical experience I had ever seen and taken part of. 
Shari Lewis: Did you ever wish upon a star?
Lamb Chop: I once asked Mr. Rogers for his autograph.
#44re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:36amYeah, Rogue also had the ::ahem:: pleasure of meeting my brother...yeah, sorry 'bout that...
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#45re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:38am
He's really one of a kind. I don't think I'll ever have another chance to listen to a 9 year old sing "Kiss Me".
Shari Lewis: Did you ever wish upon a star?
Lamb Chop: I once asked Mr. Rogers for his autograph.
#46re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:39am
He is a wee bit CRAZY...
Come on people, no one else was there tonight??? Reveal yourselves!
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#47re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:45am
ah someone misread their playbill when I was at Sweeney last week too! This man sitting next to me and my friend thought that the special Tony playbill was part of the Sweeney playbill so when he opened it he said "wow Kelli O'Hara's in this? She's in everything!" and then his friend goes "And Chita Rivera too!" They really thought that. My friend and I think got kick out of imagining Chita in Sweeney.
LMAO!
#48re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 2:19amSweeney ends up drawing a strange mix of people. Some of them know the show extremely well, saw the original ,etc. Some have no idea what the show IS at all. And some are devoted Sweeney fans who weren't alive for the original, but have come to know and love this production. I believe tonight's audience was mostly people who had seen the show already, and the atmosphere was almost defiant, and slight;y reminiscent of a recently deleted "up your, Tony voters: thread. Good times...
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#49re: The Audience at Sweeney Tonight
Posted: 6/14/06 at 3:26pmxoxRogue - were you the one whose father was there? I think I saw you two (Rogue ans aspiring) meet out front.
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--Aristotle
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