The Most Intimate Theatre Experience

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

That sounds kinda wrong

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Shuddup cartagena.

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

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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.

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!

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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...

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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bastard

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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.

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