Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?- Page 2
Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
mijofly19
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
#25re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/8/05 at 10:19pmI haven't seen DRS, Spelling Bee, or any of the others, but The Producers was funnier than Spamalot. (Although both were great)
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#26re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:34am
DRS!
Avenue Q is up there...
but of anything, and this of course is the funniest play...I have never laughed harder than I did at Jewtopia.
Actually can't let this thread pass by w/o some sort of notable mention for My Fair Lady...considered one of the truly best bway musicals of all time and probably one of the most intelligently written.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
Updated On: 12/9/05 at 02:34 AM
sweeneyfan
Stand-by Joined: 11/29/05
#27re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 8:04am
PLAY: Moon Over Buffalo
MUSICAL: Drood, Avenue Q
"Cor! me bones is weary!" -Mrs. Lovett
#28re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:04pmI like DRS, so funny. I like Avenue Q too.
It was 6 hours, I don't even like to have sex and eat bacon for 6 hours.
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
#29re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:13pm
Having played Hero in Forum before I can definitely vouch for this show being one of my favorite comedies. Every night I performed in it was a blast!
Other comedies I love are:
--The Pajama Game--the bits with Hines are hilarious--especially the scene where he can't keep his pants on!
--Guys and Dolls
--Avenue Q
--Smoke on the Mountain--I played Rev. Oglethorpe in both versions of this show and the audience went crazy for them. When reading the script it doesn't appear as funny as it really is. I did the show down here in NC so I guess it really appealed to a lot of the audience since they could relate to it.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
Updated On: 12/9/05 at 12:13 PM
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#30re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:14pm
noises off
barefoot in the park
dinner at eight
#31re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:28pmI left off Kiss Me, Kate...a great classic musical comedy. I have never laughed so hard when I saw the recent revival...of course that partly could be attributed to the wine I had with my dinner at Sardi's.... :)
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#33re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:31pmI giggled through Urinetown, but Noises Off had me bellylaughing throughout.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#34re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:45pmSpelling Bee, most definitely.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#36re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:53pm
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Norber made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants.
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#37re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:59pm
More support for Kaufman and Hart:
The Man Who Came To Dinner
You Can't Take It With You
and
Scapino (with Jim Dale, 1974-75)
the second act of Noises Off (as performed in 1983)
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#38re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 7:49pm
Spamalot
Forum
Noises Off
The Odd Couple
The Producers
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#39re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 7:55pm
The Odd Couple
DRS
Superman
Moon Over Buffalo
Lend Me A Tenor
Poster Emeritus
rent_nodaybuttoday
Stand-by Joined: 11/29/05
#40re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:20pmbrighton beach memroirs was really funny...i dunno about funniest though..
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#41re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:26pm
Play:
RUMORS
Man Who Came To Dinner
Musical-
Avenue Q
All Shook Up (it was a COMEDY)
BroadwayBaby315
Understudy Joined: 1/17/05
#42re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:26pm
Urinetown (especially for theatre geeks)and Producers
never seen Avenue Q, but I'm sure its hilarious as well.
Another funny show, certainly not my favorite comedy, Hairspray has quite a few funny lines.
I am not Tony winner Dan Fogler.
fetzles1490
Featured Actor Joined: 4/16/05
#43re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:42pm
play: NOISES OFF, DEFINETLY.
musical: tie between avenue q and spamalot. spamalot was absolutely hysterical.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#44re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:48pm
1. Avenue Q
2. Fuddy Meers
3. Spelling Bee 
Off Broadway Forbidden Broadway SVU.
MyMeredithMonster
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/05
#45re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:48pmAvenue Q
"Yeah, Clarissa, explain it all."
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#46re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:50pm
I have never seen SPAMALOT AND IT IS SUCH A SHAME.
Sucks to be me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#47re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 10:55pm
play: Noises Off, the You Can't Take It With You
musical: DRS
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#48re: Whats Your Favorite Broadway COMEDY?
Posted: 12/9/05 at 11:06pm
play: NOISES OFF (Peter Gallagher made me cry from laughing so hard, the only time that's happened from watching a show)
musical: need I say, ALL SHOOK UP. And SPELLING BEE!
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