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The Moment That Has Caused You To Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongously

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:06pm

Well? What scene from a Broadway show has caused you to grin the most ridiculously humongously?

For me, I'd have to say the dance break during "One Step Closer" in "The Little Mermaid." Something about that sequence just gets me...

That, and the counterpoint part of "One Day More" in Les Miserables as well as "Beggars At The Feast." I cannot watch those scenes without smiling from ear to ear.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#2

re: The Moment That Has Caused You To Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongously

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:09pm

every comment Schmerg makes.

I think I grinned like a silly ninny during most of The Drowsy Chaperone. and my face always hurts after You Gotta Get a Gimmick.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

Updated On: 12/23/08 at 10:09 PM

#3

re: The Moment That Has Caused You To Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongously

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:11pm

Every post Cartwheel and Mikers and the rest of the Gaymates post.

They leave me in STITCHES!!!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2
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re: The Moment That Has Caused You To Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongously

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:12pm

Givesmevoice-- <3

Oh my, how could I forget Spamalot? I think my lips were ready to fall off during the "I'm All Alone" Sequence, when the entire chorus came onstage and sang, "He's all alone!" Though Spamalot in general is a musical that rips your face apart, in the best possible way, of course.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

Updated On: 12/23/08 at 10:12 PM

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re: The Moment That Has Caused You To Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongousl

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:21pm

rOcKS, I know exactly what you mean! I have never heard a version of that song that doesn't make me insanely happy, not even when it's just my brother singing all of the roles in the shower.

Also, the song that always makes me giddy, despite the fact that I've never seen the show live, is "Into The Fire" from The Scarlet Pimpernel. Watching the Tony performance or listening to it on the cast recording, there's just this ridiculously infectious enthusiasm.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
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re: The Moment That Has Caused You To Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongousl

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:41pm

pretty much all of Avenue Q
"Sometimes on the strip, the dreams you come in with, ain't the dreams you leave with" ~Rock of Ages
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
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Posted: 12/23/08 at 11:30pm

I would say the biggest goofy grin would be last weekend at Hairspray. Pretty much the whole show. But when the curtain first comes up for Good Morning Baltimore and from then on. Getting to see Harvey and Marissa (!) made me grin like an idiot for two and a half hours.

The runners up would be Avenue Q, Xanadu and some parts of Legally Blonde (most recently the tour. Rhiannon is pretty funny and every time Natalie Joy Johhnson really let loose on Ireland or other parts...yeah girl!!!)
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Posted: 12/23/08 at 11:46pm

Normally, for most shows I see, the minute I walk into the house, I get this giddy-floating on air- feeling that barely goes away until the next day...

But the one thing that made me "Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongous" was closing night as A Chorus Line. I know it was a sad night, but it was BY FAR the best night of night of theater I've experienced. Every song got a standing ovation that lasted at least two minutes. "Nothing" and "What I did for Love" got well over 5 mins of applause. (And tears)

=]
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Posted: 12/24/08 at 9:27am

My face muscles hurt every time I'm watching the post-curtain call "concert" portion of MAMA MIA. It's a very happy moment and I can't stop smiling thorugh the whole thing!

What a great way to send an audience home!
"To love another person is to see the face of God!"
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Posted: 12/24/08 at 4:19pm

Lindsay K. Northen's 2nd time ever going on as Glinda in Wicked this past May. I had the biggest smile on my face the whole night.

Also Totally F****d from Spring Awakening. I was in onstage seats and I was watching Alex Socha and she was just losing it laughing so that made me smile and laugh also.
Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!
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re: The Moment That Has Caused You To Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongousl

Posted: 12/24/08 at 4:29pm

"But the one thing that made me "Grin The Most Ridiculously Humongous" was closing night as A Chorus Line. I know it was a sad night, but it was BY FAR the best night of night of theater I've experienced. Every song got a standing ovation that lasted at least two minutes. "Nothing" and "What I did for Love" got well over 5 mins of applause. (And tears)"

Ahh, Kirby I totally agree! I was there as well, and it really was one of the most incredible nights of theatre I have ever experienced.

Also, I'll echo Drowsy. I couldn't stop smiling the entire time. And, well, [title of show]. Anything involving that cast just makes me grin hugely.
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Posted: 12/24/08 at 5:02pm

"Put on Your Sunday Clothes" in ANY production of Hello Dolly

(Same with "elegance" and the title nubmer, not to mention Barbra's extra opening number in the movie)

"Be Our Guest"

Yeah, pretty much all of "The Drowsy Chaperone", especially the one joke with "Selling all of those racist actors to Disney, let the kids sort it out"

Listening to Elaine Stritch. I don't know why, but I can't get enough of her!

"Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George

Touch Me" and "Totally F*CKed" in Spring Awakening, especially onstage.

Jackie Hoffman's improv bit in "Xanadu", especially closing night.

"Freak Flag", "Morning Person", and Seattle's "Donkey Pot Pie" from Shrek.

Oh god, so many more...

"La Cage aux Folles" from that very show.

"Our Favorite Son" in The Will Roger Follies

"Shine" from Billy Elliot

Not "Supercal" or "Step in Time", but "Anything Can Happen" from Mary Poppins, not to mention the Finale.

Legally Blonde... period... with extreme highs during the Remix

The two back to back show stoppers in Spamalot: "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" and "Diva's Lament"

SOOO Many More
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Posted: 12/24/08 at 5:03pm


Clay and his Mates
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

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