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)
"You don't just stop posting horse s*** on the web!"-The [Title of Show] Show
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
Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
Message From a Nightingale song in The Drowsy Chaperone.
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
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.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
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.
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.
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul
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