The best 3 seconds in the theatre- Page 2

[elimeyer]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:17am

I'm sorry, I didn't see that show, what is the seemingly anti-semetic reference???

THAT is your favorite 3 seconds?

How sad that is...

Please, enlighten me...I don't get it!

[RustyJusty830]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 2:55am

"I'm a pretty girl Mamma!"- When Louise looks in that mirror, its magic.

The spotlight switching on to reveal Tracey Turnblad asleep in her bed on the loud chord played by the orchestra.

I've got to say it, However cliche- "It's meeeeeeeee!" (I get chills every time)

"Alright, Now let's do the whole combination, facing away from the mirrors, from the top, A - FIVE - SIX - SEVEN - EIGHT!" - (As the cast turns around to face DS and does that ever so famous combination) Chorus Line Opening always gets me amped!

The stairs in the revival of 42nd were STUNNING- Enough so that I applauded every time.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 3:04am

Ms Broadway Betty, I love you and I LOVE this thread! But, I have one question for you! Do you want the "G" rated answer or the "X" rated answer?

[broadway betty]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 3:28am

My dearest Chrys, I've heard plenty of X-rated things outta your mouth. Keep it clean for the kiddies on the board. :)

[Jon]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 4:21am

When I saw RENT - a month after the Broadway opening - before the Tony Awards, before the cast started losing their voices, when they walked out on stage to start the second act - the audience gave them a STANDING OVATION - before the chords of "Seasons of Love" started!

[jam_man]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 4:45am

I don't know wheather or not they did this on Broadway, but at the end of the Illinois All-State Ragtime, the cast picked up Little Coalhouse and carried him back to the bridge under where Coalhouse and Sarah were singing. Then of course, "... and he will ride - our son will ride - on the wheels of a dream!" I cryed more at that show overall than I have in most of my entire life, and nothing was more emotional than that.

And the signing reprise in Big River also deserves mention, without a doubt.

[Urban]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 7:15am

"Sarah, I've Got A Son"

*shiver* Best damn three seconds.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 7:23am

The shadowy figure of a Father shooting himself in "The Boy From Oz"

Mama Rose's entrance in Gypsy

Kristin's last day in Wicked, the moment when she and Idina sang the last notes of "For Good."

Idina Menzel walking onto the stage in a red jogging suit.

[Broadwaygirl22]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 7:36am

When I saw "Tommy" the band was playing before the show started and trying to get us all excited. It was interesting.

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 7:40am

When the cast of RENT sings "Viva La Vie Boheme!" at the end of act one, I love that.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 7:42am

Thanks Rusty! It is the opening of 'A Chorus" line for me as well. (sigh.. I can't wait!)

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:45am

Enjolras' part in one day more.

"One more day before the storm....etc" brilliant.
Updated On: 7/20/05 at 08:45 AM

[baddadnpa]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:49am

The best 20 seconds I ever had occurred at the Gaity Theatre over HoJos in Time Square.

Oops, not what you were talking about, huh?

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:59am

The starburst making it's first appearance in in A Chorus Line.

[bella cantato]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 9:35am

Heather Headley: Be ENOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

And also:

"Thanks guys, it was fun. Love, the Jackal!"

Oh and while I'm at it... Norbert pulling his boxers up to reveal his very white butt...

Updated On: 7/20/05 at 09:35 AM

[Chip1012]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 10:08am

"Do you miss sharing a cigarette?"
"You bet I do Noah."

[Chip1012]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 10:09am

double post Updated On: 7/20/05 at 10:09 AM

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 10:15am

"...And the wooden bassoon..." (Caroline, or Change)

"...For my perfect fantasy somebody" (Amour)

"Love if you can and be loved" (The Light in the Piazza)

[bwayrunner22]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 10:23am

Miss Saigon-- "How in one night have we come so far" in the finale. It gives me chills evertime I hear it and it was heartwrenching live.

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 10:28am

The first four notes in the overture from Gypsy make for the shortest, yet most chilling, moment I've ever experienced in a theatre.

As for something more universal: whenever the house lights dim, and the audience suddenly gets quiet(er), and the first note played by the orchestra in the overture (if there is an overture). Then later, when the curtain finally rises, for the first time. *Sigh* There is no possible way to describe the feeling you get at those moments.

[robbiej]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 10:31am

Did no one see Ellen McLoughlin descend from the flies as the Angel at the end of MILLENIUM APPROACHES?

Cause that's it for me.

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 11:19am

Allthough I never saw it, I agree with whomever said "when Euan Mortan sings 'on a clear day I can see myself for miles'"

I'm obsessed with that part. The first time I heard it on the cd I got major chills :) that song makes me sad ....

[WickedOne2]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 11:27am

Idina Menzel's last notes in Defying Gravity
Idina's last note in Wizard and I
When Raul Esparza hits the high note in Petrified
"Forget regret or life is yours to miss" from Another Day in Rent
Norbert and the beef jerky scene in DRS
Norbert singing "Rap stars will love me" in Great Big Stuff
Sutton Foster's high notes at the end of Gimme Gimme
Adam Pascal as the Emcee in Cabaret saying "It's me. It's me."
Very beginning of Chicago when Velma comes out to sing All That Jazz

[fiatlux]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 11:35am

The last three seconds of the first act of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

[worrell4077]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 11:38am

Christian Borle's lines "I said England" and "I'm Not Dead."
Tim Curry's facial expressions during SpamAlot.
Tim Curry and Michael Mcgrath coming out in the beginning of SpamAlot.
Tim Curry's lines "Why are we called the middle ages, nothing comes after us" and "Are there any jews here?"
The lines right before Find your Grail "I found it. Where? Right there."
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"Why are we called the middle ages, nothing comes after us."
-Tim Curry