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Your most memorable moment of a show
Joined: 12/31/69
#25re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:32pm
im sure no one wants to hear me tell this story again.
#26re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 6:33pmi'll cover you: reprise in rent was so emotional for me the first time i saw it. Also the ending in cabaret. WOW!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#27re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 7:41pm
in a play: in Dial M for Murder, when the female lead stabs me with the scissors (Captain lesgate) she is supposed to do it with them flat against my back......apparently that night she was feeling frisky, as she accidently had them not so flat and they broke skin....
watching a play: DRS in San Diego, when John sits in the beach chair........it broke, and turned into a showstopper for about 8 minutes when everyone laughed.....they laughed, we laughed....it was hysterical
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#28re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 7:43pm
Elphaba, I love your signature!
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
Dextrous Existence
Featured Actor Joined: 1/2/05
#29re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 7:50pm
I saw DRS a week before it opened on Broadway I got front-row dead center orchestra seats. Well, anywho, Norbert flashed the front row his whitie tighties (under his boxers) in Act II. Quite surprisingly random, but very hysterical.
I have to agree with "I'll Cover You- Reprise" and "Defying Gravity".
#30re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 8:38pmwhy thank you chrys
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#31re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 9:20pm"DREAMGIRLS"...1981...Imperial Theatre...Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Ben Harney, Cleavant Derricks...The whole damn show was *AMAZING*!
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#32re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 9:22pmWatching Adrianne Lenox sing "Lot's Wife" when she went on for Tonya Pinkins. That's still the most beautiful performance I've ever seen on the stage.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#33re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 9:45pmHunter Foster's "Run Freedom Run" in URINETOWN.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#34re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 9:59pm
Wicked: the whole experience of the show was memorable, but Idina's accident will unfortunately always stand out in my mind.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Updated On: 3/23/05 at 09:59 PM
Wanting life but never knowing how
#35re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:03pmJean Valjean's death in Les Miserables and the finale. It is heart breaking, but at the same time uplifting. Actually, all of Les Miserables is memorable.
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
#36re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 10:10pm
Javert's suicide and the baricade scenes from Les Miz.
Reba in AGYG (she was GREAT!)
many many others.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#37re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 11:41pm
The finale of Caberet done by Norbert Leo Butz on the tour. Watching him being hung in a concentration camp uniform was very very emotional being jewish and that being one of the 2 shows I knew anything about at the time I just started crying (it was many years ago)
The one I love though is the final of Sunday in the Park With George. Watching all the charectors leaving was very sad and I reilized it was more like a new beginning than an ending.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#38re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/29/05 at 1:20pm
OK, I have a few:
Frances Ruffell as Eponine when I was 9 singing "ON MY OWN" in Les Miserables.
The Opening number of "THE LIFE"
"DEFYING GRAVITY" in WICKED
Final of "PARADE"
All of "BLOOD BROTHERS" with Stephanie Lawrence
Kelli O'Hara's Act 2 entrance in "DRACULA"
THE LION KING - "CIRCLE OF LIFE"
I am sure there are many more!
#39re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/29/05 at 1:54pm
eponine's On My Own
christine's "you are not alone" smooch from POTO
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#40re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/29/05 at 2:10pmDefying Gravity, January 2nd is burned into my mind, so laugh at me, it was amazing.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#41re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/29/05 at 3:15pm
Well, I have to say it was in '73 and seeing my first professional production, Peter Pan. He flew out over the audience and the image STILL haunts my brain. It's then when I realized, I HAVE TO DO THEATRE!
And then, the 16 months I spent on tour with Hairspray, but then, I was paid for that.
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LilMiZBroADwaY23
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/04
#42re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/29/05 at 3:48pm
My favorite moment, is definitly when the Phantom through the mirror. It always gives me chills when he is pulling her through the labryinth. I always dream that it is me, and it's just so... memorable.
And in Hairspray, during "You can't stop the Beat" When Edna came on stage and gave her bit. It truly made me realize that I'm beautiful just as I am. It's just so amazing.
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#43re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/29/05 at 4:03pmtheatrediva- what did you do on tour! Lucky duck!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#44re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/29/05 at 4:08pm
I was the star dresser for Hairspray, putting pantyhose on Bruce Vilanch 8 times a week.
I had a blast.
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Ajax
Swing Joined: 3/28/05
#45re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/30/05 at 4:44pm
1976--Christine Andreas steps out on balcony of Henry Higgins cantilevererd set of Higgins' study at the end of Act 1 sc.9 in that ballgown with the strings playing very tenderly,I could have danced all night.
opening night of the original Pacific Overtures, opening Night of Sweeney Todd on Broadway. Mary Martin and Ethel Mermain live at The Broadway Theatre.The Follies Concert at Avery Fisher Hall.... toooo many!
#46re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/30/05 at 4:55pm
Last year, before it closed, I saw Bernadette Peters as Mama Rose in Gypsy. I have to say, it was one of the best performances I've ever seen in my whole life. It was so emotional, and vocally, we got her on a really good night. So that's mine...
My dad wants to include his: He saw Les Mis for the first time on broadway back in 1991/1992. He said that a 20 year old Rachel York, who played Fantine was so incredible, that he cried during all of her songs and that he'll never forhet it.
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
bill mobley
Understudy Joined: 2/28/05
#47re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:05pmThis is really something I used to hate to admit, but it is just the truth, and I have to face it. Whenever I hear somebody do "Got a lot of living to do" from Bye Bye Birdie I have a geniuine sense of exhilaration. Whenever Conrad sings the line: "Life's a ball, if only you know it, and it's all just waiting for you," I feel uplifted. You wont find such innocent and square moments like that anywhere.
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#48re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:15pm
1. Taking my five year old brother to see CATS on Broadway back in the day (I was in my late teens at the time - egad, I'm getting old). We were worried he wouldn't sit through it. He was mezmerized, and got his photo taken with Deuteronomy. He was literally shaking. So cute.
2. ONE DAY MORE in Les Miz. Every time I see it, I get zee shivers.
3. I'LL COVER YOU REPRISE in RENT always makes me teary. Even when I've seen the show twice inside of a week. Always choke up.
4. NO GOOD DEED in Wicked - still my fave Elphaba song.
5. Frenchie Davis singing the SEASONS OF LOVE solo in RENT. Darn, that girl's got some pipes.
I'm sure there are many, many more, but that's all I can think of!
DefyGravity23
Stand-by Joined: 3/28/05
#49re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/31/05 at 7:09pm
well...since I've only seen one show...
SPOILER FOR WICKED SPOILER FOR WICKED SPOILER FOR WICKED SPOILER FOR WICKED SPOILER FOR WICKED
Don't read on if you haven't seen wicked. Alrighty...when you find out that Elphaba and Fiyero really didn't die. I had no idea it was coming and it just made me so happy! I can't explain it, I had been bawling my eyes out during for good and the "melting" scene. And just to have them be alive...okay, I know I'm a freak. I get really attached to characters. 
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