Weird Facial Expressions

Any peculiar expressions that certain musical theatre performers make?

For example, the interesting Elvis-esque lip curl that Patti LuPone tends to do when she's singing. Or that incredibly odd face that Michael Ball makes when he sings the phrase "and rain" in "A Little Fall of Rain" from the Les Miserables TAC. (He tends to make a lot of pretty goofy faces, actually...)

George Hearn's chin does the strangest thing when he sings. There's that strange eyebrow twitch that the OBC Moritz in "Spring Awakening" did on the Tony Awards (John Gallagher? I am not a fan of the show, so I really don't know much about it). And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me.

Anyone else have any examples of this?

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Updated On: 10/22/08 at 06:41 PM

Sarah Brightman.

Jennifer Holliday

Ha, I have a friend who came home from the Les Miserables revival incredibly thrilled because, "ALEXANDER GEMIGNANI SPAT ON MY HAIR!" I was concerned that she was going to say something like, 'I'll never wash my hair again!' When Drew Sarich was playing Javert, it was like he and Alex Gemignani were having a spitting contest onstage. It was especially interesting in Confrontation when they'd stand about a millimeter away from each other and spit into each others' faces.

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And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me.


That just made me laugh out loud. And it made my signature.


I'll agree with Beth Leavel, and I'll also have to nominate Charlotte d'Amboise. She made some weird faces during "Music and the Mirror."

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Oh, my! My very first signature quote... I'm going to have to get my parents to dig up my baby book and add a new entry! ^_^
OH YES. Betsy Joslyn. I've never seen someone with such terrifying eyes. They just... roll around in her head like ping-pong balls.

I have a friend who once said that the only thing that scares him more than clowns is the concept of making out with Patti LuPone. I mean, that's scary for more reasons than just the fact that her mouth does strange and unpredictable things, but... have you seen her on the Tony awards for Evita? By the time she was halfway through Buenos Aires, I was genuinely disturbed.

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Okay, this is something really juvenile that my sister and I made about a year ago... Sorry about the horrible captions.

Presenting the Many Faces of Michael Ball, as seen in his rendition of Sunset Boulevard:

"My Edna Turnblad is prettier than Patti LuPone!"


"I'm very sorry, ma'am, but the particularly lumpy cushion I just sat on turned out to have been your cat."


"Hmmm... should I gloat today, or simply be very, very smug?"


"You there! How about a shave? Sweeney's waiting!"


"Heyyy, baby! I’ve had nineteen beers, and you suddenly look really attractive despite the fact that you’re actually a vending machine! I will make out with you intensely as soon as I scrape this peanut butter off of the roof of my mouth!"


"Kissing the vending machine was pleasant until I got my tongue caught in the dollar-bill slot."


"Wanna see my Al Gore impersonation?"


"This burger would have been a lot better were it not seasoned with human feces."


ACTUALLY, I believe you’re thinking of the Sumerians and not the Babylonians, as the...*is hit by a large sledgehammer*


Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club?

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Dee Roscioli used to have some hideous facial expressions in Wicked.

Not weird facial expression but when I saw Wicked from seat BB 6 last Wed. Julie Reiber's eyes FREEKED me out. They are so light that you can almost see through them and when the light hits them the right way it looked like she didn't have any eyes.

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DG777, what is with you & Wicked? It's fine to like it but when I see that you posted last in a thread, I know you posted about Wicked no matter what the topic is.

So we've established that every Elphaba ever makes creepy faces?

By the way, don't know how I managed to overlook Terrence Mann-- he's right there in my avatar staring back at me. I dearly love him, but he is the creepiest-looking man I have ever seen. I wonder if he and Charlotte d'Amboise courted by standing across a room making disturbing faces at each other.

EDIT: Wow, my posts are getting progressively weirder and weirder. I probably shouldn't have eaten that Nerds Rope.

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Updated On: 10/22/08 at 08:25 PM

I agree, there's been no one cheesier, and I love him for it. But hey, that video's from at least ten years ago. Cut him some slack. At least he's not doing this anymore:

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Updated On: 10/22/08 at 09:09 PM

You're right, he's doing this now.

Hee hee...I was thinking of this topic yesterday because I was making screenshots from my Company DVD....I adore Raúl, but he does make some funny faces while singing!!