The Most Hauntingly Beautiful Images on Stage- Page 6

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/10/07 at 11:23pm

THE SECRET GARDEN: At the finale to Act 1, when Mary embraces her father, Albert and he shows her the door to the garden.
Chills everytime.

THE LION KING: Circle of Life

WICKED: When Glinda mourns Elphaba's "death".

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: When the wedding party begins to clean up after the raid to Tzeitel's wedding.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 4/10/07 at 11:31pm

I agree with LoringsGuy, I tried to explain some of my fave moments of theatre to some less apreiciative friends, they looked at me like i was nuts... It doesn't matter the show, great staging is a universal, beautiful thing...

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 12:13am

Amen, ashbash.

[LoringsGay]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 12:17am

No one may agree with me, but I really love Grizabella's first entrance in Cats...... So incredible!

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 1:42am

The Vietnamese clawing and climbing the fences during the "Fall of Saigon" in MISS SAIGON (the helicopter scene, but it's the people at the fence are what haunt me)

The moment in FIDDLER when Tevye denies his third daughter.

In WICKED when Elphaba does her awkward weird-girl witch dance and Glinda, in a moment of humility, joins her instead of laughing at her, thus making it cool, and the ensemble follows.

****SPOILER****

Also in WICKED, the moment Fiyero is mounted on to the post, and you realize he has/will become the scarecrow.

During "Another Day" in RENT, when the Life Support ensemble (singing the No Day But Today part) turns and looks directly at Roger and the audience and sings.

The very end of CABARET when the Emcee strips to reveal a concentration camp prisoner outfit (gives me chils just thinking about it)

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 8:05am

No one may agree with me, but I really love Grizabella's first entrance in Cats...... So incredible!


I'm not going to disagree - but I just wanted to say that when she goes up the stairs into 'heaven' is also very beautiful and haunting.


I also love how I was one of the first people on this thread to bring up Cabaret - I actually think there are many haunting images in that play (depending on the production, of course) besides the end and "Tomorrow Belongs To Me". I was just thinking of it the other day, and the image of the Emcee with the gramaphone is somewhat haunting. Actually, it's more creepy than anything. Or as he appears under a blue light to sing "I Don't Care Much".

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 10:22am

--- Marius holding Eponine as she dies in LES MIZ... The finale of LES MIZ... Well... ANY of the "major images" in LES MIZ

--- The lake scene/MUSIC OF THE NIGHT in PHANTOM; the image of Christine giving back his ring in the final lair scene

--- I KNOW THE TRUTH/the tomb scene/finale in AIDA

--- DEFYING GRAVITY, AS LONG AS YOUR MINE and FOR GOOD in WICKED

--- The image of Alex & Giulietta making out at the very end of ASPECTS OF LOVE

--- All of THE LION KING

--- Cassie's pose at the end of MUSIC AND THE MIRROR; Paul weeping after his monlouge and Zach comforting him

--- SUN & MOON/LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD/I'D GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU/the finale in MISS SAIGON

Updated On: 4/11/07 at 10:22 AM

[Jwaa]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 10:55am

sunday in the park with george - at the meiner chocolate factory - end of act 1

beautiful

x

[Ellen2]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 4:57pm

The image i cant't get out of my head comes from the dutch production of Miss Saigon. At the final end when Kim had already died there was Chris sitting with her in his arms silenty sobbing. The moment before the lights went out he called out his final "No" and pulled her towards him. He did this so brusk her long black hair fanned out in a perfect bow and then it was dark... Still gives me the chills thinking about it...

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 5:08pm

The first time I saw A Chorus Line in Chicago - The Shubert Theatre, mid-70's, my teens. I was so taken with the thing, I couldn't leave my seat in the orchestra when it ended. I was weeping with joy and recognition. I sat there until somebody came out with the ghost light and placed it on the stage and it came on. My first time seeing that image live.

[kate2]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 6:17pm

I agree with Enjolras lying dead on the barricade. Also in Les Mis, when we see Gavroche dead. It's not so physical, in terms of lighting or the flag, but just thinking about how it symbolized the death of innocence haunted me.

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 7:23pm

In RENT, during "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" when the whole cast joins Collins and you see an empty spotlight where Angel was.

In Sweeney Todd during "Not While I'm Around" just watching and listening to Toby was hauntingly beautiful to me.

In Spring Awakening, during "Those You've Known" when Moritz and Wendla come up from the fog and slowly walk to Melchior.

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 7:56pm

I thought we were focusing on stage pictures... a lot of choices seem to involve the song or the words of the scene.


kmc

[djb]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 9:02pm

-When Martha and George sit together at the end of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and she says, "I am George... I am."

-When Sweeney slams the door in "Sweeney Todd."

[g4rat]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 9:27pm

During the song "Don't do Sadness" in Spring Awakening. Everytime Moritz jerked his head a light would flash on in the theatre.
The power of the performance, and the woderfull lighting of that number stayed with me for days.

OOOO!

I have another one.
When elphaba flies into the air during Defying Gravity.
I know Wicked is a real comercial show, great, but still comercial, I think that moment is one of the few deep moments int he show.

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 9:56pm

I feel this way a lot about the start of a show. Especially when there's a big number to start it off. I definitely feel that way in the beginning of Jersey Boys. (I guess I wouldn't really call it haunting but its just this sense of excitement)

[bandit964]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 10:45pm

another Miss Saigon moment, everyone talks about the death scene at the end, but what about after, when chris and ellen are holding the child's hands as the walk to the back of the stage and you see their sillouettes as the curtain falls.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 10:59pm

The line of dancers in A Chorus Line

Evita during "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"

Maybe not "beautiful", but when Javert jumps and the turntable river washes his body away.

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:08pm

just about everything in spring awakening.

when wendla sings "whispering" with all the blue starlights in her white nightgown.

and during "those you've known" when moritz & wendla first come out from the smoke.. and then in the last bars of the song, when there is like a rest almost.. before he sings "you watch me, just watch me, i'm calling (dum dum dum) i'm calling and one day all will know (hits high note)"
i know you SA fans know what i'm talking about.

also from SA.. [haha i'm pathetic]
during the end of "i believe" right as the music hits it's climax [no pun intended] before the black out at the end of act one.

*SPOILER*
and at the very end of "don't do sadness" when moritz has the gun in his mouth and there is a single spotlight on him before the lights go out. *shivers*

god, i love this show.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:15pm

I'd like to add that sequence from Passion, at least on the dvd with the sepia tones, detailing Fosca's past encounters with "love" and the tragedy she faced.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:20pm

when one of the daughters of Tevye announces she's going to run away with the goy and she's screaming PAPA! PAPA! as the whole village comes inbetween them singing "tradition". from the revival.

my god. i was a MESS.

[LoringsGuy]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:30pm

Hey, LoringsGAY....way to highjack my user name and avatar!

?????????

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 11:34pm

^ I saw that and was very frightened for a few moments.

Then I realized, there was no way you could have done it because you're far too intelligent to create a thread like that.

[Luvinbroadway]

Posted: 4/12/07 at 12:52am

1) When Lincoln Center "became" the Carousel during the "Carousel Waltz" in the revival of Carousel.
2) Razzle Dazzel during the revival of "Chicago"0.
3)The end of Act 1 in "West Side Story".
4) The Finale of 42nd Street (original)

[sbflyfan]

Posted: 4/12/07 at 1:06am

When Mrs. Lovett is showing Toby the grinders and she shines her flashlight out into the audience during the Sweeney revival.

The eyes and mouths of the Angel statue lighting up during the “All I Ask Of You Reprise” in Phantom of the Opera.

In the “Chicago” revival when members of the ensemble sit motionless on chairs at the edge of the stage. Also, whenever Roxie or Velma come swinging out on the ladders.

Finally, during “One Day More” in Les Mis when Enjolras waves the flag and Gavroche puts up his arms.