The hardest you ever laughed..

[BroadwayBoy2]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:05pm

while witnessing a piece of theatre was?

Mine would probably be The 39 Steps.

[jessica0414]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:06pm

I cry big old crocodile tears whenever I go see Second City's improv show in Chicago :) (from laughing...not sadness...lol). Other than that probably at Avenue Q (where I also cried from laughing so hard)

Updated On: 9/15/08 at 09:06 PM

[BNN]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:07pm

The first time I saw Xanadu, not knowing ANYTHING about it.

Second place goes to Jennifer Laura Thompson's ballet dancing during Popular, she killed me.

[spiritx33]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:08pm

Spelling Bee. I came very close to peeing my pants several times.

[Pippin]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:08pm

the revival of "Noises Off"

[jordangirl]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:09pm

That would be last week at the end of the Lance Horne concert @ Ars Nova (I'm counting it because there were theatre people involved). The last song. If you were there, you know what I mean. :P

[winter_sky]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:10pm

Probably Boeing-Boeing. I thought Speech and Debate was hilarious too. Norbert in Is He Dead had me cracking up too.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:12pm

Definitely SPELLING BEE.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:15pm

I'm with Pippin, the revival of Noises Off six years ago had me in tears. The only show to come remotely close was Boeing-Boeing.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:21pm

Message From a Nightingale song in The Drowsy Chaperone.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:26pm

Call me a philistine, but I can't remember laughing harder than watching John Treacy Egan playing Chef Louis in "The Little Mermaid." That man is amazing; I don't know why I don't hear more about him. He can get laughs out of anything. I laughed until my mascara started running and my stomach started to hurt.

[defyinggravity42694]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:31pm

Xanadu, when Whoopi was in it.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:35pm

I thought Whoopi was out-funnied by everyone else in that cast.

For me, it's Avenue Q or Spelling Bee.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:37pm

Avenue Q, and then Spelling Bee

[Select a Member Name]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:41pm

Spelling Bee fo sho.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:44pm

Hmmmm...I'd say Speech and Debate.


The hardest I've ever cried was at Little Women.

[Patash]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 9:51pm

Well maybe only because it's so fresh in my mind, but tonight at our annual member's meeting of our community theatre, a group of 20 of our best performers did some musical numbers -- fully staged and costumed. At one point the 10 girls all came out dressed as the whores in Les Miz and the music to their song was playing as they took positions. Then without warning, the music changed to "It's a Hard Knock Life" from Annie, and they did the entire number AS the whores. Go through the words to Hard Knock Life thinking whores and you'll get an idea of how funny it was. I hurt from laughing.

On Broadway, it's been a lot of years, but I still remember laughing like crazy at Jane Connell doing Gooch's song in Mame.

[thejcm]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:05pm

The first time I saw The Producers. I was like 16, had never seen the movie or knew anything about the show before seeing it. I had never laughed so hard in my life for the entire show.

[morosco]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:05pm

the original Broadway Noises Off. Peed my pants (literally).

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:08pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, especially during "Love is My Legs" and "All About Ruprecht."

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:14pm

First time I ever saw the adult show of Spelling Bee in SF.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:16pm

And also DRS.

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:18pm

Xanadu!

[yankeegal]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:31pm

The first time I saw "Altar Boyz", and during a lengthy ad lib between Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in "The Producers".

[[tos]fan999]

Posted: 9/15/08 at 10:35pm

the adult Bee was great.
I almost fell out of my seat.