Which show is the most emotionally scarring?

[andyf]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 2:43am

I think I want this to go the unexpected route (you'll see what I mean when I post mine) but feel free to post anything that left you scarred.

Anyway, mine is DEFINITELY CATS. I saw this with my family when I was like 6 and ever since the freaking cats came crawling in the beginning with the flashing eyes, I haven't been the same. Sure, I guess if you saw it when you were older, you could have thought, "WOW! What a fun show! Hey look the cats are singing and dancing! How fun!!" But seeing it when I was that young....that show bought me like 5 years on the couch.

Anybody else have a "fun" story?

[MadeofGold]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 2:46am

LMAO. See, I am totally obsessed with you since I'm following you everywhere on the board! :P

I actually was terrified by the flying monkeys in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" which somehow has now translated to the flying monkeys of Wicked. The first time I saw Wicked and saw those bad boys being released, I just wanted to head the hell out the door! :/

[andyf]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 2:48am

You need to go to Piece...I'm going to go into MoG withdrawal. :'(

Anybody else?

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 3:06am

No show has ever left me emotionally scarred, but one of my best friends has the same sentiments about Cats as andyf. On a related note, I had the pleasure several years ago of watching my four-year-old cousin cry as he came out of the movie "Baby Geniuses." When his mother asked him over the phone why he was crying, he said, "Because they were trying to hurt the babies!" It was so cute.

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 3:19am

my mom took me to see John Leguizamo's pre-Broadway tour of FREAK when I was 7 or 8 I believe. that had quite an effect on my young mind. there were lots of recesses spent in the office the following year.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 3:24am

How old are you now if you saw Freak when you were 7 or 8? I keep thinking that in my early twenties, I must be one of the youngest people posting on broadwayworld.com.

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 3:31am

i think that's right. i may have been 9, but if so, then just barely. I'm 21 now, 22 in January.

[andyf]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 3:35am

Oh wow. It's always exciting to find out you guys aren't creepily older than everyone else.

Creepily older people, please fell free to attack.....NOW!!!

[Janki]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 7:33am

The Cildcatcher in Chitty in London almoast made me cry.....brrrrrr...hzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 12:14pm

A Chorus Line was emotionally scarring. I had never realized that actors did what they did for love.

Les Miz was also emotionally scarring. I had never thought that when I loved another person I could see the face of God.

Finally, Hello Dolly was emotionally scarring. Anyone who saw the last Broadway revival (and had to stand through Channing's 15 minute curtain speech) understands why.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 12:31pm

Very confused.

FREAK opened on Broadway, February of 1998 -- Six years ago. If you'll be 22 in January, then you were about 15 (almost 16) when you saw it (he developed the show very quickly, mostly at PS122 in the East Village -- any pre-B'way tour of it would have been very brief and during late 1997).

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 12:56pm

then it wasn't even at that stage of its development. i didn't follow where it went following the SF run but the one I saw was supposedly one his first times doing it as a continuous piece. but y'know you're right, that doesn't add up at all if you say it was 1998 it hit broadway. maybe it was the one before FREAK. SPIC-O-RAMA was it? i'm positive on my age so it woulda been around 1992-ish. does that make sense or am I completely hallucinating my old memories? I truthfully only remember bits and pieces of John up onstage and not having any idea what was going on. and i remember my ma being upset afterwards because she hadn't expected it to be so graphic. and i definitely remember getting in trouble for repeating parts of it at school. it's times like this I wish I had treated my brain better during 1st yr of college.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 1:06pm

Perhaps it was Spic-o-rama, which played off-Broadway in '92 or Mambo Mouth which was off-Broadway from '90 to '91.

Leguizamo's only had two shows go to Broadway -- Freak (1998 and Sexaholix (2001).

Updated On: 10/11/04 at 01:06 PM

[wickedfan]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 1:09pm

well, I love it now. But when i was, oh about 7 or 8, I found the original Cast Recording of SWEENEY TODD in our den. I brought it up to my room and was listening to it while reading the synopsis and looking at the pictures. I couldn't sleep for a whole month. It took many weeks before I could finally come to terms that it was just a show, not reality. No one was gonna come slit my throat and turn me into a pie. Right? :)

[xluckystar2107x]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 1:58pm

margo what would we do without you?

[Broadway Matt]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 2:02pm

thanks margo, it had to be spic-o-rama then. it was before the Mario Brothers Movie. you've carved a permanent place in my now-updated life story. i'd better tell my mama she's been telling slightly inaccurate embarrassing stories all these years.

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 5:13pm

For some reason when I was very little and my parents would play the CATS album, it was my favorite at the time, the sound of the glass breaking after Munjojerry, i believe, used to scare the crap outta me.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 5:15pm

I have never been the same after the Shakalaka number from Bombay Dreams.

[TheAudrey3]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 7:00pm

Ok, this may sound reallly weird. But I was afraid of BatB for the longest time. I saw it at the National Theater when I was about 7, and the Beast scared the bejeezus out of me.


And I am also a very young Bwayworld poster... 16. lol

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 7:07pm

When I was a young child (maybe 7 or 8 ), I went to a cabaret theater production of the Nutcracker (not the ballet). I remember that the Nutcracker costume scared the heck out of me because it was so big and would ask my mom, "Is he going to come down the aisle?" because I was so scared that he would come over to me. I used to be scared of people in costumes that covered someone up completely, for some reason.

I actually haven't thought about it until now, so I shouldn't say it left me emotionally scarred my whole life, just during the show.

P.S. Sorry I put the space between the 8 and the ) otherwise it would have made a smiley with sunglasses.

Updated On: 10/11/04 at 07:07 PM

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 7:40pm

Wow beaver, very jealous of you right now. That sounds like a very surreal and F*cked up night, I only wish I had that as a memory of mine. Little meat pies? I can't even begin to describe how awesome that is.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 10:08pm

the thought of tarzan the musical...ahhhhhh...grrr

Hunchback of Notre dame has potential to be amazing....thoughts???

[CJR]

Posted: 10/11/04 at 11:52pm

4 words: My Life with Albertine

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 10/12/04 at 12:19am

I would say mine was The Normal Heart. Things could have just turned out so different, but sadly they didn't.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/12/04 at 1:10am

As in real life....