The Funniest Broadway Shows EVER! — Page 2

#26

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/7/07 at 2:08pm

AVENUE Q is the latest show I recall actually laughing OUT LOUD at in a theater, as opposed to just snickering to myself.

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#27

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 8:18pm

How could I have forgotten the orig B'way production of NOISES OFF!

#28

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 9:15pm

It's so hard to just name one...or even a few..

Urinetown
Spelling Bee
Spamalot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
(most of) Falsettos
Drowsy Chaperone

and many more...

#29

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 9:22pm

Bat Boy and [title of show] are pretty funny, but those are off-Broadway. Then, there's a LOT of reeeally funny off Broadway shows... For funniest BROADWAY musicals? Urinetown, Drowsy Chaperone, The Producers, Avenue Q, Forum, etc. For funniest plays, probably Lend Me A Tenor, Noises Off, The Odd Couple-- pretty much anything by Neil Simon, David Ives, or Oscar Wilde (although not sure how Broadway-related the latter two are.)

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#30

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 9:25pm

funniest EVER, is pretty broad but of the ones I've seen I'd say Avenue Q and Drowsy Chaperone

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#31

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 9:52pm

The funniest show I've seen on Broadway is probably Spamalot. The funnies off-Broadway show? Gutenberg! (Actually, as I was walking out of Gutenberg I remember I said to my husband, "That's the most I've laughed since I saw "Spamalot"!)
I agree that "Noises Off" is extremely funny when done right. I saw it in a small community production and it was hysterical. Then I saw the Broadway version with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and, I don't know, something about it was "off." It just wasn't as funny as it could have been, IMHO. Maybe it was their timing or maybe they were all trying too hard to be funny individually and weren't working that well as an ensemble. Perhaps I just got it on an "off" night.

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#32

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 10:23pm

Spelling Bee
Drowsy

#33

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 10:53pm

I don't know if they're the funniest EVER, but I always laugh at The Drowsy Chaperone and Noises Off.

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#34

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 11:03pm

Musical: Little Me. Nothing compares, it's just the perfect comedy.
Play: The Odd Couple, Arsenic and Old Lace, or Lend Me a Tenor

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#35

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 11:39pm

Drowsy and Spelling Bee for me.

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#36

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/8/07 at 11:51pm

I agree.... Zombie Prom was probably the musical I laughed at the most *Johnny don't go to the nuclear plant!* Although I don't think it was intentional....

Spelling Bee is pretty stinkin' funny.

Did anyone see a play called "Scapino"? My local community theatre did it and I thought I was going to die.

#37

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:34am

I've never laughed harder than at Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Producers. I absolutely love Drowsy but it's not as hysterically funny (to me) as those other two.

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#38

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 2:49am

I think Curtains has one of the funniest books ever. The Odd Couple is a hysterical play as is Noises off. I'd say mine are spelling bee, curtains, and odd couple.

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#39

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 9:51am

The most I have ever laughed in the theater was during Dame Edna. Ave Q would be a close 2nd.

#40

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:42pm

The big ones that come to mind are Hello, Dolly!, Bells are Ringing, Spelling Bee, Hairspray, and Kiss Me, Kate.
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#41

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 5:10pm

Musicals: LITTLE ME
BYE BYE BIRDIE

Plays: NOISES OFF
THE SUNSHINE BOYS

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#42

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 5:29pm

Touche ! the original Dame Edna
the original Fool Moon with Bill Irwin. We were literally on the floor gagging in hilarious hysteria!!

#43

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 6:58pm

As for musicals, I'd have to say "Avenue Q" and "Spelling Bee."

#44

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 7:12pm

Noises Off

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#45

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/9/07 at 8:55pm

I would say Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Spelling Bee are two of the funniest musicals I've seen. The Producers is also really funny and the songs in Avenue Q are hysterical, although I haven't gotten to see the show yet...

#46

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/17/07 at 11:06am

Spelling Bee!

#47

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/17/07 at 12:04pm

Souvenir, Little Dog Laughed, the word Nougat in DRS, and, inadvertently, Whistle Down the Wind.

#48

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/17/07 at 1:38pm

I have seen DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS eight times over the past few years and have to say it never fails to make me laugh. AVENUE Q is also hilarious.

As for plays: THE PILLOWMAN and THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE are both hysterical. Martin McDonagh has got to be one of my favorite playwrights.

#49

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/17/07 at 2:57pm

Spelling Bee is the Funniest Overall but...

The scene in Wonderful Town when Brooke Shields (or Donna Murphy) is trying to pull out the sofa bed is the hardest I have ever laughed in a Broadway theatre.

#50

re: The Funniest Broadway show EVER!

Posted: 6/17/07 at 8:43pm

Plays: Noises Off and Laughter on 23d Floor. (Didn't we have this discussion a short bit ago?)

Musicals: The most I've ever laughed was in Pippin when Charlegmane (Eric Christmas, I think in a 1978 Tour) introduced War is a Science by saying "Gentlemen, let me tell you about our battle plan. On second thought, let me sing it for you." I was in the third row and laughed hysterically. I was one of the few, and to this day, I swear Charlegmane stopped and looked down at me and smiled.