Your most memorable moment of a show — Page 3

I was 12, seeing my very first show, Phantom. Chandelier goes up, overture comes in full force, I am dumbstruck and remained that way for the whole show.

Seeing Rent for the first time was an unforgettable experience, and I loved every minute. Act 2 was so emotional for me, having only heard the OBCR to that point. Seeing it happen on stage made it REAL. I cried for the entire end of Without You and all the way up to Goodbye Love.

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I've seen tons of shows in my life. All of you people who keep mentioning Wicked are really clueless. It must have been your first and only show and you all must be 12 years old. I saw Wicked. It was entertaining. I liked it. That's all. There are hundreds on better shows that have magical moments in them. Enough of the Gershwin already! Go see something else.

One was in my early theatergoing days seeing Bob Holliday flying in as Superman.

I have had many more since

Linda Hopkins singing Deep In The Night from Inner City springs to mind right away

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Bui Doi in Miss Saigon
Defying Gravity
Streetsinger because I used it as an audition and got my part in a musical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Just recently "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" has become really powerful to me. It might be because I had a good friend move recently but that song makes me tear up all the time now.

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More than one moment of a show for me ... it'd have to be just the whole experience of finally getting to see my friend and one of my absolute favorite actors ever LIVE onstage when I saw Gregory Jbara in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on opening night. (When I first became a fan and got to know Greg, he was in Hollywood doing movies and tv, so I totally missed out on his earlier Broadway days.) The first 'moment' I'd choose would be the first instant I saw him step out on stage. And then hearing and seeing him act and sing live. It was just a dream come true for me, and I'm so grateful to him and his wife Julie for making it possible for me and my husband to be there. I love the Jbara's!!

Updated On: 3/31/05 at 08:30 PM

Oops..just thought of another one...lol. It was Bernadette in "Gypsy" during and after the show. I was sitting in the first row and had this very strange feeling that during moments while she was singing she was looking right at me (the first couple of rows were pretty well lit from the stage lights). It continued to the point where I began to question my sanity but I soon forgot about it. After the show I walked through Schubert Alley and at the stage door there were railings on either side that led to a limousine. Out came Bernadette but I couldn't get that close since people were already blocking me. I waited for them to leave after BP had signed their Playbills and stood at the railing thinking I'd at least get a view of her from a few feet away. All of a sudden BP looked in my direction and walked back to where I was standing and I swear to you...she grabbed my Playbill to sign it and said to me "You were sitting in the front row weren't ya?" I said "Wow, there were times I thought you were singing just for me" to which she replied, "I was" and walked off! Relaying this story afterwards to friends in the theater, they said it's not uncommon for a performer to zero in on a particular audience member while singing. I guess it was my lucky night...:)

Updated On: 3/31/05 at 08:42 PM

Your Eyes...Rent

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Well, my moment isn't emotional or anything, but I'll never forget it. In "The Money Song" of Avenue Q, I gave Princeton some money, and on his way back up, the puppet kissed me on the cheek. It was just adorable, and I was already in ecstacy anyway, that just made it better.

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Demetri, those are 2 of the coolest things i have ever heard espcially about bernadette. Though Im the biggest Todd fan like ever and had i been born yet id have killed to be there it is very cool to have an actress as famous as bernadette peters to say something like that.

And to the one person above me, you gave him money? I wonder what they do with it.

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Wow where to start? "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" in RENT. I saw it for the first time three weeks ago in NYC and bawled. Twice actually...there and the finale. Wow soooo moving. Also "The Circle of Life" in The Lion King. I was in the 5th row in Chicago about 6 seats in and then this elephant with five people inside of it comes walking right past me. I was breathless. My list goes on but those two really really stand out for me.

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1. The "CATS" overture-first time ever in a Broadway theatre

2. "The Who's Tommy"-All of it

3. Sutton's "Gimmie Gimmie"

4. Marin and Stokes both reaching for opposite sides of the door in "So In Love"

5. Silly as it sounds, Idina's "It's Meeeeeeeeeeeee"

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