The Most Intimate Theatre Experience

[esparza 333]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 5:49pm

Have you ever had an experience in theatre when you felt so part of the show because of intimacy? Where you felt so in contact with actors?




Please share your experiences....

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 5:51pm

"Have you ever had an experience in theatre when you felt so part of the show because of intimacy?"

That sounds kinda wrong

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 5:52pm

In all seriousness, the doyle sweeney todd was a VERY intimate expirience

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 5:54pm

Shuddup cartagena.

I had sex in one of the boxes at the Palace during Legally Blonde once...I don't think anyone noticed, though.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 5:58pm

Liza's at the Palace. Liza had the goft of making me feel like she planned her entire show around exactly what I needed to hear.

[Mark_E]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 6:27pm

I got alot of eye contact at Avenue Q when ive been in the first and 2nd row of the stalls. Comes naturally I guess.

I also felt very involved in the action when I saw Imagine This. The New London theatre is good for that.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 6:29pm

The new "Our Town" at Barrow Street. It's honestly hard to tell who is an actor and who is an audience member.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 6:40pm

The first thing that came to mind was a production of Sondheim's Passion at Chicago's Shakespeare Theatre with Kathy Voytko and Ana Gasteyer. It was a TINY black box theatre and the whole auditorium felt like the stage because the actors would make entrances everywhere. It was a great experience!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 6:47pm

Two words: John Doyle.

(Shocking, I'm sure.)

[philly03]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:32pm

lly thought John Caird did a great job with Jane Eyre ~ The Musical, atleast on a Jane aspect. Did I feel connected to everyone? No, but Jane atleast you did - the ups, the downs...

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:34pm

Piragua- LOL

And actually, Sleepwalk With Me was very intimate...

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:36pm

Definitely the first time I saw LIZA'S AT THE PALACE.

Row E in the Orchestra. It felt like the crowd melted away and she was performing to/for only me. It was a truly amazing experience.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:40pm

This isn't Broadway, but the recent staging of Grey Gardens in Cleveland was performed in a very small theatre with a thrust stage surrounded by the audience. It felt like you were in the Beales home. It was a great choice for the show. I'd highly recommend it for future productions. It was very intimate and at times very in your face (it really upped the emotional ante of the piece.)

[Marianne2]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:46pm

Don't know if my experience really counts or not, but Mary Testa threw a thong at me, and talked to me at Xanadu. Okay, it doesn't help that I was the only person in the 3 seat front section where she does interact with the audience at the one part. LOL! I also felt like in the beginning of the show that Cheyenne kept looking at me. I doubt he was, but I really had no idea what was going on, since it was the first time I saw the show, and people were still talking as he was on the stage, doing the chalk drawing.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:48pm

FROZEN @ Cicle in the Square

[Mistress_Spouzic]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:53pm

Golda's Balcony... but I guess she was talking to the audience and it was a one woman show, so it was meant to feel intimate.

Tarzan, especially if you sat in the first 3 rows or so, with cast above, in front and around you... you felt surrounded by it all.

[skb2010]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 11:53pm

I saw Spelling Bee in Chicago at a matinee. It was basically 100 kids from my school, and maybe fifty people who came seperately. We were moved down to front. The Drury Lane is an intimate theater to begin with, but when you have so few people in the audience, and the show breaks the fourth wall throughout the entire performance, it was like it was real rather than a performance.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 12:19am

Sat in the front row for A Little Night Music at the Menier Chocolate Factory a few months ago. When Hannah Waddingham made her first entrance, she walked straight downstage and stood right in front of me barely a foot away - from that vantage point she appeared to be about 10 feet tall.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 12:22am

Me and my friend (I was wearing stripes, he was wearing purple) had a VERY intimate experience at "The Norman Conquests" tonight. We kept getting really dirty looks from this guy sitting across from us, though.

Loved the show. I couldn't stop laughing or clapping.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 12:22am

Sounds like Stipes and Purple over at The Norman Conquests had the most intimate experience ever.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 12:22am

Beat you to the joke!

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 12:23am

bastard

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 12:30am

Even though I didn't feel part of an intimate setting because of the size of the theater, I felt one of my most intimate theatre experiences was the Drowsy Chaperone, especially with the Man in the Chair constantly interacting with the audience.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 12:43am

Sitting in the front row at August: Osage County was an awkward/intimate experience, and stands as one of the greatest theatrical events of my life. Lots of uncomfortable eye contact moments with the actors, and it really felt like I was in the house. I'll never forget nearly jumping out of my skin when they started smashing the plates right in front of me!

The MOST intimate theatre experience I've had, though, was definitely Speech and Debate, which was in a tiny black box set up like a classroom. Sitting in the front row, there were times when the actors were practically in my lap. I remember I couldn't cross my legs because they would get in the way, so I ended up just kind of tucking them under my chair. Being up that close to the action was amazing. Great, great experience.

Updated On: 4/14/09 at 12:43 AM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 2:05am

Marvelous Wonderettes is great. There's a good deal of audience interaction in the show. During a single performance I've been waved at, blamed for being a litterer, had my clothes complimented, been told I was smart and a good listener.

Updated On: 4/14/09 at 02:05 AM