Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?- Page 2

[mijofly19]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#25

Posted: 12/8/05 at 10:19pm

I haven't seen DRS, Spelling Bee, or any of the others, but The Producers was funnier than Spamalot. (Although both were great)

[wickedrentq]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#26

Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:34am

DRS!

Avenue Q is up there...

but of anything, and this of course is the funniest play...I have never laughed harder than I did at Jewtopia.

Actually can't let this thread pass by w/o some sort of notable mention for My Fair Lady...considered one of the truly best bway musicals of all time and probably one of the most intelligently written.

"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli

Updated On: 12/9/05 at 02:34 AM

[sweeneyfan]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#27

Posted: 12/9/05 at 8:04am

PLAY: Moon Over Buffalo

MUSICAL: Drood, Avenue Q

"Cor! me bones is weary!" -Mrs. Lovett

[Kgshrauder]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#28

Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:04pm

I like DRS, so funny. I like Avenue Q too.

It was 6 hours, I don't even like to have sex and eat bacon for 6 hours.
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[Enjolras77]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#29

Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:13pm

Having played Hero in Forum before I can definitely vouch for this show being one of my favorite comedies. Every night I performed in it was a blast!

Other comedies I love are:
--The Pajama Game--the bits with Hines are hilarious--especially the scene where he can't keep his pants on!
--Guys and Dolls
--Avenue Q
--Smoke on the Mountain--I played Rev. Oglethorpe in both versions of this show and the audience went crazy for them. When reading the script it doesn't appear as funny as it really is. I did the show down here in NC so I guess it really appealed to a lot of the audience since they could relate to it.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

Updated On: 12/9/05 at 12:13 PM

[Marquise]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#30

Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:14pm

noises off

barefoot in the park

dinner at eight

[Enjolras77]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#31

Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:28pm

I left off Kiss Me, Kate...a great classic musical comedy. I have never laughed so hard when I saw the recent revival...of course that partly could be attributed to the wine I had with my dinner at Sardi's.... :)

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[JudasIscariot]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#32

Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:50pm

Urinetown and then Spamalot.

[kelzama]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#33

Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:31pm

I giggled through Urinetown, but Noises Off had me bellylaughing throughout.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#34

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:45pm

Spelling Bee, most definitely.

[Unknown User]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#35

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:46pm

Lettice and Lovage

[WickedOne2]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#36

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:53pm

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Norber made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants.

"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe

[WOSQ]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#37

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:59pm

More support for Kaufman and Hart:

The Man Who Came To Dinner

You Can't Take It With You

and

Scapino (with Jim Dale, 1974-75)

the second act of Noises Off (as performed in 1983)

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

[Magdalene]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#38

Posted: 12/9/05 at 7:49pm

Spamalot
Forum
Noises Off
The Odd Couple
The Producers

"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"

[Mr Roxy]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#39

Posted: 12/9/05 at 7:55pm

The Odd Couple
DRS
Superman
Moon Over Buffalo
Lend Me A Tenor

Poster Emeritus

[rent_nodaybuttoday]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#40

Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:20pm

brighton beach memroirs was really funny...i dunno about funniest though..

[Unknown User]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#41

Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:26pm

Play:

RUMORS
Man Who Came To Dinner


Musical-
Avenue Q
All Shook Up (it was a COMEDY)

[BroadwayBaby315]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#42

Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:26pm

Urinetown (especially for theatre geeks)and Producers
never seen Avenue Q, but I'm sure its hilarious as well.

Another funny show, certainly not my favorite comedy, Hairspray has quite a few funny lines.

I am not Tony winner Dan Fogler.

[fetzles1490]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#43

Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:42pm

play: NOISES OFF, DEFINETLY.

musical: tie between avenue q and spamalot. spamalot was absolutely hysterical.

[Corine2]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#44

Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:48pm

1. Avenue Q
2. Fuddy Meers
3. Spelling Bee

Off Broadway Forbidden Broadway SVU.

[MyMeredithMonster]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#45

Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:48pm

Avenue Q

"Yeah, Clarissa, explain it all."

[Corine2]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#46

Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:50pm

I have never seen SPAMALOT AND IT IS SUCH A SHAME.
Sucks to be me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dre2387]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#47

Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:55pm

play: Noises Off, the You Can't Take It With You

musical: DRS

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~

[WholeLottaShakin]

re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?#48

Posted: 12/9/05 at 11:06pm

play: NOISES OFF (Peter Gallagher made me cry from laughing so hard, the only time that's happened from watching a show)

musical: need I say, ALL SHOOK UP. And SPELLING BEE!