the adult Bee was great.
I almost fell out of my seat.
An ad-libbed bit in "Xanadu" when an ornery fly began to attack Whoopi Golberg, Mary Testa and Curtis Holbrook onstage.
Their interaction and on-the-fly remarkas, capped with Whoopi changing the into of "Fool" from "Fi! Yeah, Fi!" to "Fly! Yeah, Fly!" while Curtis chased after the fly and successfully squished it to an ovation from the audience.
I almost peed myself.
Broadway Star Joined: 4/16/07
1.) Is He Dead?
2.) Boeing-Boeing
3.) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels/Spelling Bee
I think I cried the most during Mark Richard Ford's I'll Cover You (Reprise) in RENT. I used to get really choked up during The I Love You Song in Spelling Bee.
Also Passing Strange, HAIR, Spring Awakening (specifically DDS, especially with John Gallgher) and Grey Gardens made me cry too.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
The first time I saw Legally Blonde laughed so hard that I cried.
Annaleigh Ashford's last show at Wicked her and Steph's silly ablids had me cracking up but their last For Good had me crying like a baby.
For me it's a tie between Xanadu and Avenue Q, both for different reasons. With Avenue Q it's mainly what's in the text of the play itself. With Xanadu, it's all in the fantastic performances (okay, and somewhat to be attributed to the great book) from every person on stage. Both have me in stitches.
The hardest I ever laughed was the first act of the original "Noises Off" with the divine Dorothy Loudon. I laughed so loud that, at intermission, some lady a few rows in front of me was just GLARING at me. It was fitting that I didn't laugh OUT LOUD during the second act, as it all takes place backstage.
It's not the hardest I ever cried, but the most I ever cried was at "The Larramie Project". I wasn't sobbing, but the tears just poured down my face.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
laughing:
Avenue Q
laughing at a blooper:
the last thursday show of RENT when Justin came out as "Pussy Galore" without the wig.
crying:
Marcus Paul James' ICY Reprise in RENT
Alabanza (which i know i probably spelled wrong) ITH.
Laughed: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. No matter how many times I went.
Cried: Second time at Spring Awakening during "Left Behind". A kid at my school had just died and it really hit me hard because I saw what the parents were going through(ish).
Second City made me laugh hysterically.
I couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw AVENUE Q.
As for crying:
I was bawling in the second act of PASSING STRANGE.
I got a little choked up during "Nine People's Favorite Thing" at [tos].
The first time I listened to the In the Heights OBC, after having seen the show, I started crying during "Atencion" and "Everything I Know."
Laughed: easily Drowsy Chaperone.
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
First time I saw Noises Off (at my university)
Avenue Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
The hardest I ever laughed was probably at Spelling Bee. Not necessarily because it was funnier than the amusing moments in other shows, but because blatant laughter was more appropriate for that show than most I've seen.
Actually, I probably laughed harder at Mirror-Blue Night from Spring Awakening. But I was polite enough to keep it entirely stifled.
Broadway Star Joined: 3/20/08
The elevator scene in the recent tour of Sweet Charity...it just kept going and going, and the whole audience was in tears from laughing so hard.
Spamalot
Stand-by Joined: 1/11/08
AVE Q. One terrific laugh after another.
The hardest I ever laughed was at The Scarlet Pimpernel during the handkerchief and hat dance in "The Creation of Man" and the following scenes in which Percy was acting all foppish in order to hide his true identity. I don't think I've ever laughed more at any other show. Not even at a Mel Brooks show.
At a Broadway show? Spelling Bee Broadway night.
At any show? Freestyle Love Supreme
I was cracking up during Second City in Chicago, and both Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and [title of show] had me in stitches as well.
I'm not one to cry much during a show, but I did cry during the last 15 minutes of Grey Gardens, and "A Way Back to Then" in [tos] had me tearing up a little as well.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Xanadu the first time I saw it because I had no clue what I was in for!
Swing Joined: 9/2/08
Spamalot for me too. Thanks Eric Idol, Mike Nichols, etc.
A high school production of Rumors I went to was insanely hilarious.
Avenue Q
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Since "cried" has been added...
Closing performance of Roundabout's Sunday In The Park With George in June. I always cried during "Move On", but I was literally sobbing at closing.
VERY close second (practically tied) was closing of Next to Normal ~ another one that always got me, but at closing when Diana was talking with Natalie at the end, Alice broke and sobbed audibly during that pause I turned into a total puddle.
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