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Your most memorable moment of a show
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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!
#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
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!
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
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.
#33re: Your most memorable moment of a show
Posted: 3/23/05 at 9:45pmHunter Foster's "Run Freedom Run" in URINETOWN.
#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.
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.
#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.
#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.
"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.
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.
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.
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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