middle of show standing ovations- Page 3

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 8:18pm

On tour is where an audience gives it's real opinion, IMO. For example:

I've seen POTO 7 times, 6 of those on tour. The third to last time I saw the tour, there was an ovation right after the curtain closed ACT II. Last time I saw it on tour, the ovation was not until the managers came out, and this was in the same city (Providence, RI, by the way). SO I think if New York City starting being less of an EVENT and become more of a daily privelage that everyone and anyone can see (like tours), then applause will begin to reflect how the audience REALLY feels.

[MissElphie]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 9:38pm

When I saw the RENT tour two weeks ago in Toronto, Seasons of Love got a standing ovation but a lot of people in the orchestra.
I've also seen Defying Gravity get a standing ovation.

[guitargeek0624]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 9:38pm

QMAN03 - I saw Man of La Mancha twice, both times with Stokes, and after he sang "The Impossible Dream," almost the entire audience stood and applauded for a long time. It was really incredible the first time, and even more amazing the second time.

[Feathah]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 9:53pm

In two unlikely shows - Lennon after "God" and "Woman Is The N***** of The World." And also Rocky Horror w/ Terrence Mann as Frank "I'm Going Home."

[Menken Fan]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:04pm

When I saw the Broadway production of The Wild Party, Eartha Kitt received a genuine and well-deserved standing ovation after "Moving Uptown". This was a very receptive audience just a few days before closing.

[Corine2]

Posted: 5/26/06 at 11:04pm

Additionally,
It deserves it. I hope it runs longer than CATS!
I love Jersey Boys and it deserves all the standing ovations and praise from fans.
Jersey Boys is one large STANDING OVATION.
I think every Jersey Boy deserves one.
LOVE THEM.

I finally met the other two and they are fantastic.
Love them.
Corine
I also love Robert Spencer's understudy. I sat next to him at Daniel Reichard's concert months ago.
Updated On: 5/26/06 at 11:04 PM

[DiamondGirl]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 1:22am

Did anyone see the Kennedy Center production of Merrily We Roll Along with Raul Esparza as Charley? I heard he got some crazy long ovation in the MIDDLE of "Franklin Shepard, Inc."

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 1:30am

I saw MERRILY and Esparza certainly was very impressive doing Franklin Shepard Inc and got a very enthusiastic ovation, but no one stood the night I saw it.

Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:13am

MArgoChanning's story about DREAMGIRLS took the words right out of my mouth. What she said is correct. The only other instances I can think of (and I may be forgetting some) were the standing ovations Ethel Merman got several times during most Hello, Dolly! performances.

[icantbelive]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:47am

I heard that in London that after one of the actors finished singing "sit down you're rocking the boat", the audience couldnt stop clapping so he did the song 5 times.

[xoxRogue]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 9:58am

When I saw it with Pryce And Butz they got the same reaction, except people were screaming their heads off. The guy in back of my was CRYING, he thought the song was beautiful.

When I saw it, it was the same reaction. It was the most amazing reaction I had heard. I think someone else on the board when the same day I did. (April 2

[show2n2]

Posted: 5/27/06 at 10:26am

Last Dreamgirls tour with Jennifer Holliday in Atlanta. The Fox Theater.

We(the audience) were up as soon as she started And I'm tellin' you, and then stayed standing the entire song.

My hands were hurting from clapping so loud. And fuggedabout my voice....It was shout from screaming.

What a memory.

[kaboodles041]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:22am

If you read JLY's blog, he said that on March 27, they got a standing O at the beginning of a song:

Taken from <http://www.johnlloydyoung.com/blog.htm>
One of the great joys of being an actor is performing for a live audience. Sometimes it's unlike anything else you could ever describe. At JERSEY BOYS we often get multiple standing ovations during the show, which, for us, is still breathtaking each time it happens. Tonight, though, something happened at JERSEY BOYS that's never happened before: people in the audience began to stand at the beginning of a song, all the way through it, and as the song ended the rest of the audience jumped to its feet. As the JERSEY BOYS and I came together to sing the final song of the show, a man in the orchestra stood. Soon thereafter an audience member on the opposite side of the auditorium stood. Then whole sections began to stand. As we performed our final song together as a cast, we watched this happening. We were all so moved that many of us, including me, were fighting back tears.


Hmmm...much as I love the Jersey Boys, I don't think I would've done that.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:35am

When I saw Brooklyn night before Thanksgiving 2004, there was a standing ovation for Eden Espinosa for "Once Upon A Time."

[almostxfamous]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:38am

I've heard a recording of Company in Cinncinnati, and after Being Alive, the applause goes on for quite a while, and it's absolutely wonderful.


Yeah, I don't know if I would've stood at the BEGINNING of a song, but hey.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 1:42am

I'm going to tell you a story...

There is a small town in a large state and they have a community theatre that puts on plays and an annual musical.

After 25 years of volunteer musical directing, the musical director had a bad stroke. Although she did not die, she had trouble moving and could no longer conduct. The doctors said she would have to do rehab for a few years to get back to normal.

The next year, the theatre held an entire season of musicals in her honor. The musical director who replaced her was a student of hers.

They did her favorite musical for the close of the season, HELLO DOLLY. At the opening night performance, when they got to the "Hello, Dolly" number, instead of the Dolly Levi actress appearing at the top of the steps, it was the musical director. The entire theatre stood up instantly and cheered. There were screams and tears. The balcony, mezzanine, and orchestra stood up. Then the REAL orchestra (the musicians) stood up.

The Dolly Levi actress came out and joined the musical director. Together, they walked down the staircase as the show resumed. When the song finished, there was another ovation. The show finished.

She resumed the musical direction for the rest of the shows. She is still the musical director to this day.

[alterego]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 3:05am

I'm not sure I'm in favour of a standing ovation in the middle of a show. It would break the continuity. At the end sure, but not in the middle.

I'm not sure if you are aware of this but Americans do have a reputation (overseas) of standing ovations for practically anything.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 10:00am

It's a reputation duly earned.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 10:07am

When I saw THE PRODUCERS, both times Nathan got a standing O after BETRAYED.

Updated On: 5/29/06 at 10:07 AM

[wonderful1]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 11:40am

Saw J. Mark McVey receive it after BHH. And, well deserved. I've seen the show a number of times with various different Valjeans and this time with JMM as JVJ - well, it was just about perfect.... JMO

Posted: 5/29/06 at 12:30pm

"Saw J. Mark McVey receive it after BHH. And, well deserved. I've seen the show a number of times with various different Valjeans and this time with JMM as JVJ - well, it was just about perfect.... JMO"

TFTI. VI. TEH

[wonderful1]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:10pm

ok Tom14850- what did that mean?

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 5/29/06 at 2:26pm

'I'm not sure if you are aware of this but Americans do have a reputation (overseas) of standing ovations for practically anything.'

Yes, oblivious as we are, we Americans are accustomned to being put down for many things. God forbid we should be overly enthusiatic for performers. Criminal, is what that is.

As Hugh Laurie said recently, upon being greeted with extended applause as he entered the stage for Inside The Actor's Studio, "A British audience wouldn't make this much noise if the theatre was on fire".

Yes, damn us Americans for occasionally giving praise where it may not be due. How horrible of us. Better to sit on our hands.

Anne Duquesney (I'm sure I've mis-spelt that) used to stop the show in Jelly's Last Jam during The Banishment, and Chita got a standing O often at the end of A Woman the World Has Never Seen Before.