Tiny moments in musicals that really make you laugh — Page 4

basically everything in spelling bee kills me, but here are some:
the slow motion thing, when Barfee is spelling a word with is foot, in slow motion, he spelled it right, and then all of a sudden it's reg. time, and he goes "i know"

the i fell thing-i almost fell out of my seat laughing

"if you take the silent w from answer, the h from ghost, the extra a from aardvark, and the t from listen, you could spell 'what', but nobody would ever hear it." is that it?

I love when I saw Hairspray and in "Without Love", Right when Seaweed sang "living in the ghetto..." and whipped out a switchblade to cut away Penny's ropes...it was so funny! I also love the ad libs Bruce Vilanch added into "Timeless to Me"..I was laughing so hard!

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the galinda hair flip thing had me dying! i thought megan and shosh were having spasams!! lol

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I love during "ITW" when Jack's mother says "someday you'll have a real pet, Jack" and Jack says "A piggy?"

Forgot one more. In The Producers "Betrayed", the way Nathan Lane says, "Rex, stoppit!"

Dorothy and Toto went over the Rainbow to blow off Auntie Em..,..

LOL! Puts it all in perspective! LOVE it. And yes... it's sad but "Lemons and apples and pears oh my" LOVE it.

Usually though, the little moments that make me laugh are ones you're NOT supposed to laugh at, that strike me as really really funny. So I'll be the one chocking down my laughter during the death/love/serious scene.

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Updated On: 9/1/05 at 12:01 PM

Ana Gasteyer's "toss-toss" hair bit in Wicked in Chicago.

Kristin Chenoweth's "La La La" dance in Wicked on Broadway.

The Bad Idea Bears in Avenue Q.

Smudge's backwards choreography in Forever Plaid.

Penny's "...and I'm never going back!" during Without Love in Hairspray.

Clara exits and then runs back on to touch Fabrizio's chest with one finger and then exits again in Piazza.

Every moment of the First Act Finale in Urinetown.

Erroneous' recurring appearances in Forum.

Anne's "How comical you look!" when she sees Henrik with a rope around his neck attempting suicide in Night Music.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson's "Is that a word?" when given a particular strange word to spell in Spelling Bee.

Dan Fogler's "Ah yes..." with each word he is given to spell in Spelling Bee.

The Baker's Wife "I need your shoe to have a child!" in Into the Woods.

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"We'll . . . YOU'LL be handed power on a plate . . . "

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In "Take a Chance on me" from Little Women on the OBCR when Danny goes 'Come on!'

In Over the Moon on the OBCR, when Idina is trying to get them to moo. And she does a little moo. I can't describe it, but I crack up.

During Spelling Bee when Leaf Coneybear falls off the bleachers and then puts his helmet on. That's hilarious.

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"sentries". A "century" is a period of 100 years.

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Couple amusing things in response to things already said..

The whole thing regarding "wop"...you know I'm a theatre geek when initially I thought the reason you were discussing the word was b/c during WSS after "Cool" when Riff and Bernardo are discussing terms of the rumble, and the gangs start fighting the last thing spoken by a Shark to a Jet is "wop" before they almost start fighting but Riff and Bernardo stop them. Oopsy.

The whole Jesse falling off the bleachers--soo funny, but what everyone forgets is that it doesn't happen entirely at random, it happens right after Rona says that this is a very strange age for girls. Then Leaf falls off and she adds "and for boys."

Oh, and this one is worth mentioning b/c in my 7 times seeing the show, the only time I wasn't the only one in the entire theatre laughing/catching it was when my friend caught the reference and started laughing. Right after Norbert spits the nuget into John's hand, he throws it out starts, hmming and smiling. Then Greg says "you can't be serious" and John says something about "he's so deliciously low"-I ALWAYS laugh at the My Fair Lady line, and the only one so.

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YES!!! I caught the MFL thing too and laughed sooooooo hard! Then I turned bright red because NO ONE ELSE LAUGHED!

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That actually makes me kind of sad. How can someone NOT know that? *cries*

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