I was at AIDA's. I almost didn't go - I hadn't really planned on it at all, until somebody () offered me a second ticket she had, telling me she knew I'd regret it if I wasn't there. I wouldn't have had it any other way - I needed to be there, and it was the perfect way, if I had to at all, to say goodbye to my favorite show. The show that day had the most energy I'd ever seen in it. I cried so much. The audience was full of alumni and devoted fans, and it got the sendoff it deserved. The perfect culmination of at lot of memories.
Posted this in the Little Women Closing thread but this thread seems more apt. ***** I have a question: are shows generally hard to get tix for for the night they close? I do love a bit of emotion and I really want to go to the last performance of a show (does that make me weird?).
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
In the closing night of SEUSSICAL, "All For You" STOPPED the show.
Earlier, Cathy Rigby holds an auction for Horton the Elephant. She said her normal line "Congratulations, the Elephant goes to the bald headed man with the greasy mustache." She followed it with "Oh - I'm terribly sorry Mrs. Weissler!!"
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
you're a good man charlie brown...omg so sad. EVERYONE was crying. Anthony was crying during the end of "Happiness" when Ilana patted him on the shoulder to say her last line.. it was heartbreaking.. then after that, Saturday Night Fever which was wild and then Urban Cowboy which was also very wild.
Bernadette and Tom Wopat's last show in Annie Get Your Gun Closing of Gypsy with Bernadette Closing of Bells Are Ringing with Faith Prince and I think one more that I can't think of right now.
All closing shows are absolutely amazing to attend.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Wonderful Town. Half the audience didn't even know it was the closing, but the energy in the theatre was - well, wonderful! The cast seemed so supportive of one another, and many were visibly moved as the show approached the final scene. Big respect for Brooke Shields for making sure that Linda Mugleston got the respect she deserves! I know that next time I really love a show, I'll definitely want to be there when it closes!
"Which way do you want these pleats turned?"
"Toward Mecca."
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed