What is a memory from a show that will stay with you forever?- Page 4

[JackTheChairs]

Posted: 8/10/10 at 4:18pm

A couple of years ago I had my first experience with Anything Goes. I have never laughed harder than when Moonface sang "Be Like the Bluebird."

[jv92]

Posted: 8/16/10 at 11:03pm

Oh, about that final performance of Grey Gardens- add that to my list as well. The whole damned thing. I mean, that show itself had so many brilliant, unforgettable moments, but that final performance- Wow!

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/16/10 at 11:28pm

Definitely the opening of the most recent Hair revival- there was such a mystical, exciting quality about it, and I was drawn in immediately.

[cliffarico]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 12:30am

Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft in the Miracle Worker.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 12:49am

Hartford Stage Company, 1978, a production of a musical called "Catchpenny Twist." My seat was in the front row of the thrust stage on the side, right next to the chairs where two characters open a package in an airport in Northern Ireland, and it's a package bomb. The flash and explosion was so real from where I was I recall throwing my arms in front of my face as the young singer played by Patti LuPone completed the closing number.

They probably had to replace the cushion of my seat after the explosion went off.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 6:58am

-The first time I saw the SOUTH PACIFIC revival and the staged pulled back to reveal the orchestra during the Overture. I just involuntarily began crying.

-The dinner scene in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. And Amy Morton.

-The opening of Act 2 in the revival of MARY STUART. That whole scene was an actor's dream. Harriet Walter and Janet McTeer's performances will forever be burned into my brain.

-Carey Mulligan in THE SEAGULL, knowing I was seeing a relatively unknown young actress become a star with just one breathtaking performance.

-The finale of Sam Mendes's revival of CABARET. I have never heard an audience so deathly silent. I still get a chill when I think about it or when I hear the final cymbal crash on the recording.

-At the final performance of [title of show], when Jeff Bowen cracked and immediately began to cry, which in turn made the other three cry, during "Nine People's Favorite Thing". Many may say the show is crap and it didn't belong on Broadway, but watching a labor of true love like that show come to a close was just heartbreaking in a very bittersweet way. The whole show was one of the most wholly satisfying evenings I've spent in the theatre. Updated On: 8/17/10 at 06:58 AM

[GatorNY]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 7:26am

1.) Gimme Love from Kiss of the Spider Woman. It has everything a guy could hope for in a production number; A great leading lady who can sing and dance, great choreography, and hot chorus guys.

2.) A Little Fall of Rain from Les Misearbles. I identified with Epionine back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Somehow dying isn't so bad if you are in the arms of someone you love so much.

3.) Seeing RENT in 1996 in the 6th row and having Fredi Walker looking right at me during Seasons of Love. It wasn't my imagination. My friend leaned over to me and said "she's singing this to you."

4.) Something Alice Ripley said to me at the Next to Normal release event at Barnes and Noble.

Updated On: 8/17/10 at 07:26 AM

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 7:31am

Vanessa Redgrave's performance in Long Day's Journey Into Night, particularly her final monologue. It was the kind of acting that one cannot believe they're actually seeing. Truly the greatest performance I've ever witnessed.

And a moment that had nothing to do with the show: Victoria Clark winking and smiling at me as she was turning to leave the stage after a matinee of The Light in the Piazza. I had excellent front row seats that day and had felt like she was playing her entire performance to me. The wink was truly icing on the cake.

[Dawn Davenport]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 2:55pm

Seeing Tim Curry as Amadeus (original Broadway cast), front row seat. Twice. I was nutso crazy about him (still am) and his performance blew me away.

Hearing Ted Neely sing the Gethsemane song in a revivial of Jesus Christ Superstar. I'd always heard the expression "made my hair stand on end" but it never happened to me before (or since) until he hit the high note in that song. I literally felt the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. Freaky/cool!

[B3TA07]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 5:10pm

The moment when little Edie decides to stay in 'Grey Gardens.'

[queerheaven]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 5:23pm

These will give my age away...
My first time to see a show in NYC was Funny Girl with Barbra! I'll never forget that!

Seeing Pearl Baily in Dolly.

Katherine Hepburn in COCO

Oh there ae too many more to mention.

[EVIE]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 7:31pm

Les Miz was my first show (saw the London production in '97). The first time I heard On My Own, well I'm pretty sure it changed my life, LOL! Seeing the bodies, especially Enjolras after the final battle, chills. I was not expecting Javert's suicide and actually gasped out loud "No, no, no...!", more chills. And don't get me started on the finale, I was sobbing hysterically, I mean shaking and convulsing!

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 8/17/10 at 8:15pm

Seeing 'Hairspray' shortly after it opened in London. I was having such a rubbish year, and getting the chance to see this, with one of my best friends, front row, with 95% of one of the most energetic casts I've ever seen, made it one of my most (excuse the cliche) magical experiences I've ever had at the theatre. Cheered me up so much and I'm forever thankful for that.

[2ndBalcony]

Posted: 8/18/10 at 1:13pm

Watching an early preview of Assassins about 20 years ago, before Sondheim re-did the closing.

In the original, the assassins are all egging Oswald on and then he turns to shoot out the window. Then everybody freezes and there is a voice over that starts naming other assassins: Sirhan Sirhan, John Chapman, James Earl Ray, and more, and more, and more .... As the list goes on and on, the horror of our bloody society sets in. There were no bows or curtain calls, just fade to black and then house lights come up.

The audience sat there stunned. It was a chilling experience that those of us who were there talk about to this day.

I really think they lessened the effect when they changed the ending and added the "Something Just Broke" song.

[broadwayboy101]

Posted: 8/18/10 at 1:41pm

The transformation in Beauty and the Beast: it's the only thing about the show that I can vividly recall.

The first time I saw The Phantom of the Opera (my first professional show), John Cudia was the phantom. Enough said.

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/18/10 at 1:51pm

It's been 35 or so years, and I was a young teen at the time, but I can still clearly recall how good Kelly Bishop was in A Chorus Line. And I will never forget Elaine Stritch: At Liberty.