Tiny moments in musicals that really make you laugh- Page 2

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:57pm

In Rent during "You'll See" when Benny looks up Angel's skirt to make sure that using "boys" to address them all is appropriate. Even better when the actor playing Angel has a good reaction.

[gwalke4]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:57pm

In "The Light in the Piazza" during the long "Octet" scene, the priest corrects Clara's Latin pronunciation, she yells out "Olly olly oxen free!" - which is funny in and of itself anyway - but the funniest thing to me was that he immediately reprimanded her and she said very simply "Sorry!" and stole this look at Fabrizio. There was something very funny in that moment b/c we were laughing WITH her and Fabrizio at the priest, which was one clue that perhaps she's grown more than her mother believed possible.

[spellingbee_ROCKS007]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:44pm

Galinda-Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe...

Elphaba-(after a beat)BLONDE.

from wicked!(duh!)

[I<3Idina]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:52pm

eeeeeeverything from WICKEDD!

[Patronus]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:53pm

Shocking, that you love everything from Wicked. Oh well, at least you are giving job security to vowels.

In regards to the topic...

I laugh everytime I hear Collins in Rent sing the line, "You're a sensitive asthete."

The reason for that is that an understudy for Collins in one of the national tours of Rent once asked one of the stars of that same show (all of whom shall remain nameless):

"Who is Thete?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, when I always sing "You're as sensitive as Thete." Is that one of the homeless people?"

To this day, I can't hear that line without laughing.
Updated On: 8/28/05 at 06:53 PM

[Millie42]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:00pm

"DON'T BLAME ME! I'M FROM MASSACHUSETTS!!"

Sam Byck from the revival of Assasins... I have to laugh everytime.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:08pm

I love how on the recording of Wicked that there is place near the end of the song "what is this feeling?" where it sounds like a police car. I was playing it in my dad's car and when that part came, he looked over his shoulder to try and see if they were after them. I laughed so hard!

[liotte]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:41pm

My new favorite is from All Shook Up, when Ed is revealed and Sylvia says, "I am so glad I came here tonight!" You have to hear it in context and the way she says it, but I laugh every time.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:56pm

I always laugh in Les Mis when Enjolras goes, "Grantaire, put the bottle down!" And he says, "Give me brandy on my breath and I'll breath 'em all to death."

There's one other one that I can't remember right now.

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:00pm

in Light in the Piazza (i havent seen the show, but ive seen the part in clips) when either guisseppie or signore nacarrelli, not sure which, is kissing margarets hands over and over and then fabrizio comes behind him and grabs him by the back of the coat.

shneb28 i agree about the aiutami scene, too.

EDIT: when i saw RENT in july, during light my candle, roger was sitting on the table and then he looked down and pulled his sweatshirt as far down between his lags as he could, TOO FUNNY. and when mimi blows the candle out the first time *blows and turns head* "its out again".

Updated On: 8/28/05 at 08:00 PM

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:06pm

On the revival cast recording of Assassins, during the Ballad of Guiteau when Denis O'Hare goes

"I SHALL BE REMEMBERED... ha!"

It never fails to make me giggle.

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:32pm

I agree with a lot of the stuff said.

And then, just a lot of the stuff from Altar Boyz. There's a lot of stuff done under their breath. But some highlights -

When Luke says this during the Confession Sessions-
"Yo, I don't know all the details of the situation, Anonymous, but it sounds to me like you've been suffering from exhaustion! Yo, you need to stop gettin exhausted out your mind every night! Or you're gonna wreck the van! I mean .. a van ... some van ... somewhere ...."

And then when Juan randomly looks in to the audience into the audience and motions to random people to call him, and points to them.

When Mark sings to Matthew during 'Something About You'when the girl is onstage, and (when I saw it), my Mark did the 'just say no' line and then looked straight ahead, smiled, and shook his head like, 'Heh, heh, NO.' And then when he went to steal the towel from the girl, he took it did this little wave and smile and was like, 'kthnxbye!'

And then when Juan says lines like 'Sending our message to Jew!' and Abe glares at him and/or hits him.


And then in Wicked, when Galinda was showing Elphaba how to do the 'toss,toss', Sho kind of looked like she was having a spasm., The whole 'Popular' scene was hilarious.

Annd that's all.

[way_to_spend_the_day]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:01pm

I always laugh in the Assassins revival recording when the characters are trying to persuade Lee to assassinate Kennedy and one of them says (which character is she anyway??)

"In Florence Italy a woman will leap from the dwomo clutching a picture of your victim and cursing your name..."


I know it's not really funny, but I always giggle.

[PennyLou]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:10pm

Link Larkin Wanabe~ I don't agree with you saying none of th eother Penny's made that line funny.. In fact I think Jenn Gamby was awsome at it most nights when she threw her hands up in the air and kept going with them untill 'tracy' pulled them down and shook her haed like "it'll be ok.. just pretended it didn't happen'... Other Penny's after Jenn and Kerry haven't done it as well in my point of view but they get laughts from the audance every night all the same.. its a funny part.

my fave litte moment right now is in ASU in Ms. Syndras first apearnce on stage.. Chad says his live about hot art and hott women and all and then Ms. Syandra says "you all marry your cousins around here don't you" Mark and Jenn's reactions of "well..." is soooo funny.. It makes me laugh everytime.. I just think its cute.

I also like in Hairspray "with arms" and "yes and put WORDS on them!" its even better on the nights that Chester claps for her idea (in a "wow, really" but at the same time "thats my girl," kind of way) afeter she says that line.. so funny.

[homosezwhat]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:51pm

Okay, so I read this thread over an hour ago,
and I was just in the kitchen, washing a bowl, when Thenardier's comment about the funny moment in Les Miz
came rushing back at me, and I got all het up
and had to come post.
Thenardier said:

"In Les Mis.
"Beggars at the Feast"...

Here come a prince
There goes a Jew
This one's a queer...

Then the lady dancing with the man steps away. "

WHAT!??? Was this in the Bway version?
If the director put that disgusting little homophobic bit
in there, he needs to be...
oh, I'm against violence, so I can't say he needs to be beaten with a frying pan, or smashed in the teeth with a purse full of horseshoes, or covered in tuna and draged behind a boat as shark bait, but...he should be severely scolded, at the very least.
And if it wasn't the director's fault, then this lovely ensemble member needs to get out there and meet some queer street kids who have been tossed out by their parents because they live in a society that says it's okay to make jokes about fags.
Thenardier, what is funny about a person being shunned for being queer?
just curious.
Ugh.

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:55pm

Someone's hypersensitive...

[homosezwhat]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:02am

(He shrieks, pulls out a chunk of his own hair, and lunges at Freeadmission)

I AM NOT HYPERSENSITIVE!!!

(Beats his fists against Freeadmission's chest like an old movie actress)

I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!

(stops with the pounding, pauses, whimpers, then bursts into tears)

I just want you to hold me! Is that so wrong?!

[homosezwhat]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:05am

But, seriously...

Some of us have to be hyper-sensitive to balance out the people who are hypo-sensitive.

I just hate cheap shots, is all.
If you're gonna make a joke at the expense of someone or something, it should be someone or something with more status than the majority, not less.

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:06am

Yeah . . . I think I'm gonna have bruises in the morning.

Damn you!!!




:P

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:08am

But the whole point of a joke is that it is a joke and nothing more. I don't get pissy when people make Italian jokes. I don't get pissy when people make Polish jokes. I don't get pissy when people make women jokes, or Yankee jokes, or Christian jokes.

It's just a joke.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:16am

Shut up you stupid feminist whop Jesus loving pin stripe wearing surrender monkey!

Edit: Changed it from a hitting motion to a...striping motion.

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 12:16 AM

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:17am

It's "pinstripe". With a "P".

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 12:17 AM

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:21am

on the damn yankees revival recording;
joe: oh my god...oh my god OH MY GOD!!!
applegate: DO YOU MIND!
just the way victor garber handles that line never fails to make me laugh.

in king of broadway from the producers
woman:what does that mean?
max: who knows i don't speak yiddish.....strangely enough neither did he.

and one from wicked (sorry)
fiyero: there are no pretenses here, i am extremely self centered and deeply shallow

[homosezwhat]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:22am

and "whop" isn't a slur, it's one of the captions you see when Batman hits someone with a rubber chicken.

WHOP!

[freeadmission]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:25am

According to urbandictionary.com and my own personal knowledge:

WHOP

A derogatory name for a person of Italian origin. Historically stood for someone "WitHOut Papers" thus the term WHOP.

Those ****ing whops are at it again. They tried hitting on my girlfriend! Can you believe that ****?

Watch out for them whops. They like to cause trouble

Techinically, calling an Italian a "guinea" is worse.

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 12:25 AM